The Birmingham age-herald., 1922-01-07
Improvement Ordinance
 No. 166-D


 An ordinance to provide for certain
 improvements on 2sth Street,
 south, from the south property
 line of Clairmont Avenue, former
 ly Pine Avenue, to the north prop
 erty line of 1lth Avenue, south,
 formerly Madison Avenue, and on
 11th Avenue, south, formerly Jeff
 ferson Avenue, from the east
 property line of 2Sth Street,
 south, to a point 50 feet east of
 the east property line of 2Sth
 street, south.
 Be 1t ordained by the Commission of the City of Birmingham, as fol- lows:
 Section 1. That the broken and worn-out portions of the concrete gutter paving on Twenty ei ghth street, south, from the south property line of C1airmont avenue to the north property line of Eleventh avenue, south, formerly Madison avenue, and on Eleventh avenue, south, former ly Jefferson avenue, from the east property line of Twenty ei ghth street. south, to a point 50 feet east of the east property line of Twenty gh rh street, south, measured along the center line of Eleventh avenue. south, shall be rebuilt with portland cement concrete.
 That stone headers shall be set along the west property line of Twenty-eighth street. south, across the roadway of Ninth court, south, formerly Cedar street, and along the east property line of Twenty ei ghth street, sou.h, across the roadway of Tenth CnnFf S0nfh fnrp1ar1V (tNy,rea ea c avenue.
 That the roadway between the gut ter lines on Twenty eighth street. south, from the south property line of Clairmont avenue, to point eight feet north of the north property line Of Eleventh avenue, south, formerly Madison avenue. measured along the center line of Twenty-eigh street, south, and the roadway between the gutter lines on Twenty-eighth street, south, extending to the east and west property lines of Twenty eighth street. south, respectively. at all street Intersections between said points. and tho roadway between the gutter lines on Eleventh avenue, south. formerly Jefferson avenue, from the east property line of Twen- ty-etghth street. south, to a point 50 feet east of the east property line of Twenty eighth street, south, meas ured along the center line of Eleventh avenue. south, shall be paved with asphaltic concrete paving two inches thick on . five-inch concrete founda- tion.
 Sec. !. That said Improvements shall be made fin accordance with the established grades on file in the of- flee of the City Engineer for said portions of said highways, and ac- cording to full details, drawings, plans, specifications and surveys of said work and estimates, which shall be prepared by the City Engineer s early as practicable, and placed by him on file in his office in the city hall, not later than two weeks prior to the date named in Section 4 of i, this or dinance, where property own- CTS who may be affected by said im- provements may see and examine the same.
 Sec. 5. That the cost of construct ing said Improvements shall be as- sessed against the property abutting on the portions of the highways so improved. provided:
 (a) That the cost of Improvements at or upon street, avenue and alley intersections shall be assessed
 
 abutting on said highways so inter secting for one-haif block in each di- rection.
 (b) That the cost of sidewalk im- provements on street and avenue cor ners shall be assessed against the lots abutting on or nearest to said im- provements; and the cost of sidewalk improvements at the intersection of any alley with street or avenue or other highway shall be assessed in fair proportions against the respec- tive lots or parcels of land abutting or cornering on the alley at such intersection.
 Gel That no assessment shall ex- oeed the cost of such improvements or the increased value of such prop ertyt by reason of the special bene- fits derived from such improvements. Section 4. That the estimated cost of said improvements is s10,260, and that the Commission of the City of < Birmingham will meet on the 17tn aIay of January. 1922. in the council Ihamber of the city hall of Birming ham, at 10 o'clock a. nn., to hear any objections, remonstrances or pro- tests that may be made against said improvements. the manner of making the same or the character of mate rial to be used
 Approved December 27, 1921.
 D. F. M'LENDON,
 President of the Commission. A true copy: