The Birmingham age-herald., 1910-03-12
Improvement Ordinance


 To provide for paving and otherwise improving Fourteenth and Fifteenth | streets from Second avenue to Fourth | avenue; Sixteenth md Seventeenth
 streets from First avenue to Fourth
 avenue.
 Section 1. Be 1t ordained by the City Council of Birmingham as follows: That a roadway fifty (50) feet wide on Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets from Second avenue to Fourth avenue and on Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets from First avenue to Fourth avenue. shall betpaved with brick paw ing on a concrete foundation ex- cept the intersections of Third avenue with Fourteenth. Fifteenth, Sixteenth and Seventeenth streets, and the inter sections of Second avenue with Six teenth and Seventeenth streets, which shall not be paved.
 That the ourbs on both sides of Seventeenth street from First avenue to Fourth avenue shall be moved out
 and reset so as to form roadway fifty
 6o) feet wide along the center of the street.
 That the curbing In it's new position
 shall be connected with the curbing on
 the avenues by circular and straight
 curb.
 That said improvements shall be made
 in accordance with the grades and lines heretofore established for the portions of the streets and avenues herelnbefore described
 Sec. ?. That the cost of constructing the aforesaid improvements shall be as- | sessed and levied upon and against the | property abutting on the portions of said streets and avenues improved to the extent of the increased value of such | property by reason. of the special bene- fits derived from such Improvements and
 not in excess of the total cost of such | Improvements.
 That the cost of all improvements upon street, avenue or alley intersections | shall be assessed and levied upon ano against the property abutting on the streets, avenues or alleys so intersect- ing for one-half block ineach direction. That no charge assessed upon and
 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 between the tracks and for eighteen inches on
 each side of the tracks, including | switches and turnouts, shall not be as-
 sessed against the lots abutting on the
 streets and avenues as aforeaid, but shall
 be paid by the owners of such railroad
 and shall be assessed against and form lien on said railroad and the property used in connection herewith. | That nothing herein contained shall be
 construed to relieve any street railroad
 of it's obligations in the matter of street l improvements.
 Sec. B. That the estimated cost of said
 Improvements is $29, ,900.00 and that the | City Council will meet on the 9th day of
 April, 1910, at the Council Chamber of the | City Hall of Birmingham at 500 o'clock P M to hear any objections or remon- strances that may be made to said i'm
 provements, the manner of making the
 same or the character of material to be used.
 Sec A. That full details. drawings, plans and specifications of said work and esti-
 mates be prepared by the City Engineer
 as 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 No. of this ordinance. where property owners who may be affected by said improve
 ments may see and examine the same. | Sec. 5. That this ordinance shall be pub lished by the City Clerk in the newspa- per published in the City of Birmingham, doing city printing, once a week for two consecutive weeks, the girst publication to be not less than two weeks prior to the date set herein, at which the City Council of Birmingham will meet to hear any objections or remonstrances that
 may be made to said improvements, the
 manner of making the same or the char | acter of material to be used. | Adopted March g. 1910
 H. E. SHROPSHIRE, JR., City Clerk. | Approved March 8. 1910. | FRANK P. O'BRIEN, Mayor. | Age-Herald, March 5-12, 1910.