The Birmingham age-herald., 1909-12-27
CITY ORDINANCES. improvement Ordinance

NO. 4es-"NEW sERIEs."
 To Provide for Grading, Curbing, Gut
 ter, Sidewalk and Macadam Paving
 on Fifteenth Street From Eighth
 Avenue to Nolan Avenue.
 Section l. Be 1t ordained by the City
 Council of Birmingham as follows:
 That Fifteenth street from Eighth ave nue to Nolan avenue be graded.
 That a roadway forty (4W feet wide along the center of same from the north
 property line of Eighth avenue to the
 south line of the J. M. Ware survey, and 36 feet wide from the Ware line to Nolan avenue, be curbed with cement combined
 curb and gutter and the roadway macad- amizsd between gutters from Eighth ave- nue to Nolan avenue.
 That the sidewalks along the same shall be paved with artificial stone for width of six (s) feet. except at the entrances to lots and at driveways and alley crossings.
 where 1t shall be constructed the full
 width of the sidewalk.
 That the driveways and alley crossings
 shall be paved with vitrified brick for the full width of the sidewalk and gut ters.
 Sec. g. That said improvements shall be made in accordance with the grades and lines heretofore established for the por- tions of the streets and avenues herein before described.
 Sec. B. That the cost of constructing the aforesaid Improvements shall be assessed
 and levied upon and against the property abuttinR on the portions of said streets and avenues improved to the extent of the increased value of such property by reas- ] on of the special benefits derived from
 such improvements and not In excess of the total cost of such improvements i That the cost of all Improvements upon street, avenue or alley Intersections shall be assessed and levied upon and against the property abutting on the streets, ave- nues or alleys so iptersecting for one
 half block in each direction. That no charge assessed upon and 1 against any lot or parcel of land shall be greater than the increased value of
 such property by reason of the special benefits derived from such Improvements. | That the cost of improving between the rails of any street railroad or any | other railroad tracks. and the space be- 1 tween the tracks and for IS inches on each side of the tracks. including switches and turnouts, shall not be assessed against the property abutting on the 1 streets and avenues as aforesaid but shall be paid by the owners of such rail- road and shall be assessed against and form a lien on said railroad and the prop l erty used In connection herewith. That nothing herein contained shall be i construed to relieve any street railroad of its obligations in the matter of street
 improvements.
 Sec. 4. That the estimated cost of said
 improvements is s102o0 and that the City
 Council will meet on the 5th day of Janu-
 ary, 1910, at the council chamber of the :, city hall of Birmingham at 7:30 o'clock D. i m. 10 hear any objections or remon- | ha fn go irr1- 1 provements, the manner of making the
 same or the character of material to be l used.
 l Sec. 5. That full details, drawings. plans 1 and specifications of said work and esti-
 mates be prepared by the city engineer aa I early as practicable, and placed by him ! on file in his office In the city hall of
 Birmingham not later than two weeks
 prior to the date named in section of l this ordinance where property owners 1 who may be affected by said improve ments may see and examine the same l Sec. s. That this ordinance shall be pub lished by the city clerk in the newspaper