The Birmingham age-herald., 1917-03-23
CITY ORDINANCES

| points, and the roadway between the gutter lines on Sixteenth street from the west property line of Eighteenth street | to the south curb line of Nineteenth ave
 nue, and between the gutter lines to the | east and west property lines respectively 1 of Sixteenth street in the intersection of | all intersecting streets, courts. places terraces and avenues between said
 points, shall be paved with sheet asphalt
 paving. having a hydraulic cement con
 crete base five inches thick, a binder course one inch thick and a wearing sur face one and one-half inches thick. Pro- vided, however that the following de- scribed area shall not be paved with the aforesaid asphalt paving, but shall he ] paved with hydraulic cement concrete
 -to-wit Beginning at a point on the
 north property line of Huntsville road ! IS inches west of the west rail of the
 west track of the Birmingham Railway, | Light and Power company on Nine teenth street; thence northward parallel I to said west rail to the north property 1 line of Thirteenth court; thence east wardly along the north property line of Thirteenth couft to a point IS inches east ! of the east rail of said Birmingham
 Railway. Light and Power company's | track on Nineteenth street. thence southwardly parallel to said east rail l to the north property line of Hunts vile road; thence westward along said north property line to the point of be- | ginning. Provided further that the fol- ! lowing described area shall not be paved
 with the aforesaid asphalt paving, but shall be paved with vitrified brick paw | ing a 5-inch concrete founda ton and grouted with Portland cement grout | filler, to-wit: Beginning at point on the north property line of Thirteenth court IS inches west Of the west rail of the Birmingham Rah~ay, Light and ! Power company's track on Nineteenth street; thence northward parallel to said VIE r2i m ha ct ran 0ff Ia drffI track between Thirteenth court and Fourteenth /court to the west line of Nineteenth street at Fourteenth court; thence continuing westward parallel to l the south rail of the single track of the | Birmingham Railway, Light and Power | company to be located in the center of I Fourteenth court to the east property line of Eighteenth street; thence contin-
 ung northwestward parallel to the west | rail of the Birmingham Railway, Light | and Power company's track on Eight
 eenth street and parallel to the west rail | of the double track as extended between | Fourteenth court and Sixteenth street | to the west line of Eighteenth street at the intersection of Sixteenth street; 1 thence continuing northward parallel to ! said west rail of the track of the Bir- 1 mingham Railway, Light and Power | company, located in the center of Six | teenth street and parallel to the west rail of the double track between Seven | teentn court and Nlneteentn avenue 10 | the south curb line of Nineteenth ave nue; thence eastward along the south l curb line of Nineteenth avenue to & 1 point IS inches east of the east rail of 1 said Birmingham Railway, Light and Power companys track to be located in | the center of Sixteenth street; thence southward parallel to said east rail and | parallel to the east rail of the double l track to be located between Seventeenth
 court and Nineteenth avenue to the west | line of Eighteenth street; thence contin- uing southward parallel to said east rail 1 and parallel to the east rail of the 1 double track to be extended and located between Fourteenth court and Sixteenth l street to the north property line of l Fourteenth court; thence eastward par
 allel to the north rail of the Birming- 1 ham Railway, Light and Power com- | pany's single track to be located in the 1 center of Fourteenth court to the west 1 line of Nineteenth street; thence contn- | uing southward parallel to the east rail 1 of said Birmingham Railway Light and | Power company's track on Nineteenth 1 street and parallel to the east rail of 1.-the double track between Thirteenth | court and Fourteenth court to the north line of Thirteenth court; thence westward along said north line of Thirteenth court to the point of beginning.
 l That the sidetrack of the Birmingham Railway, Light and Power company on Fourteenth court shall be removed to a
 new location on Sixteenth street as fol-
 lows, to-wit: Beginning at the north line of the driveway on the south side of Sixteenth street IS feet east of Seven teenth court and extending westward 1 along Sixteenth street a distance of $50 i feet.
 l That the present track of the Birming l ham Railway Light and Power com- pany on Sixteenth street from Sixteenth avenue to Nineteenth avenue shall be moved to the center of the roadway of Sixteenth street between the above
 named points.
 That the sidetrack of the Birmingham | Railway Light and Power company on | Eighteenth street between Sixteenth
 street and Fifteenth avenue shall be ex- | tended southward along Eighteenth street distanc7 of POO feet.
 That the broken and wornout portions of the concrete gutter on both sides of | Sixteenth street from the old corpora tion line between Birmingham and North
 Haven to the south curb line of Nine | teenth avenue shall be repaved with Portland cement concrete gutter paving '! That the entrances to lots along all of 1 said streets, where the sidewalks are to be paved. shall be paved the full width l of the sidewalk for width of four (D 1 feet, with hydraulic cement concrete, l and the driveways into lots and the l alleyways shall be paved with vitrified 1 brick the full width of the sidewalk and | gutter
 | Sec q That said improvements shall be made in accordance with the estab- | lished grades on file in the office of the city engineer for said portions of said 1 highways, and according to full details, 1 drawings plans. specifications and sur 1 veys of said work and estimates. which l shall be prepared by the city engineer, l as early as practicable. and placed by 1 him on file in his office in the city hall, not later than one week prior to the date named in section 4 of this ordi- nance where property owners who may
 be affected by said improvements may see and examine the same.
 l Sec B. That the cost of constructing said improvements shall be assessed | tions of the highways so improved, pro- l vided
 l (a) That the cost of all improvements :, sections shall be assessed against the lots or parcels of land abutting on said l highways so intersecting for one-half {, block in each direction.
 (b) That the cost Of sidewalk improve ments on street and z enue corners shall be assessed against the lots abutting on or nearest said improvements; and the lcost of sidewalk improvements at the n- tersection of any alley with street or avenue or other highway shall be as- sessed in fair proportion against the re- spective lots or parcels of land abrtting or cornering on the alley at such inter- section,
 Co That no assessment shall exceed the cost of such improvement, or the in