HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - City Council - Regular - 6/28/1923June 28th, 1923.
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The City Gommmission met in regular session with the following present;
Mayor, Percy Spencer, Commissioners, H.G.Love, Geo. C. 111olffarth and W.SPosey,
and M.S.Ruby, City Ygr.
The following resolution was read and adopted by a unanimous vote of the City
Gommission.
Resolution.
In consideration of the fact that the rate of taxation as provided
in Article 73, Section 13, of the Uharter of this City Is inadequate.to
properly care for the purposes of the Street Improvement, including paying
and drainage, as well as other Uity purposes, it is the sense bf the City
Commission of the City of Lubbock that the preliminary st-eps-toward sub-
mitting to the voters of this City if the limit shall be raised so that in
one year the City Commission shall be permitted not to exceed, but to levy
21 '/'O� on the taxable value of all property subject to taxation.
It is therefore ordered that the Mayor and City Secretary give the
twenty days notice provided by Law of the submission of an ordinance, sub-
mitting the case of which the increased limit to the voters of this City
and which Ordinance will be considered by the City Oommissioners on this
20th day of July, 1923, and a copy of this resolution under the hand and
seal of the Mayor and Secretary shall be sufficient notice of the date of
consideration and the contents of the Ordinance.
Passed and approved t is the 28th day of June, 1923.
r Percy Spencer,
Mayor.
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City retary.
Bf_. Hutchinson represenative of the Lubbock Sanitarium, and W.Y.Dickinson,
represenative of the I'llest Texas Hospital were- before the City Commission
in r-gards to the value palced"on the buildings by the board of equalization
They stated that the �;o ;, ty had agreed to value they:. at •$10,000.00 each
and t1.cy thought that in as much as the Sanitarluns were doing; so much
Ch-irity work that the City would also plat the value of the, property at
,310,000..00, the matter was discussed by the Commission and tabled by a
unanimous vote untill the entire commission were present.
The follora�ire were appointed r^•� rcr°rd of Equalization for the City of
Lubbock for the year 1923, at the rate of 13.00 per day for each member.
There being no futher
React and approved this
At
J3 Rys,
Cit
J.F.Perry, J.S.Uohnson,
R.T.Penny, R.Q.Pierce.
business meeting adjourned.
theZZ day of � 1922�:
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Lubbock.
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4 The followin .- Ordinance was read and ordered passed by a unanimo,is vote.
ORDITd ONCE 8
An Ordinance to amend Section 11o. 1, and Section No. 8, of Ordinance
No. 204 of the Cit-r of Lubbock, passed ana approved April 11, 1922, de-
signatin�f fire limit of City of Lubbock and other parposes so as to place
1'iest half of Block 166 of original plat of City of Lubbock within fire limits of
said City and to increase the floor area between the fire walls of buildings
within said City, repealing ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict
with tLnd declaring an emergency on account of the hazards of fire and the
faulty construction and to conform floor are:, to size of the lots in the City.
Be it ordained by the City Council of the City of Lubbock, Texas.
Section 1. Fire Limits. Tne provisions of this ordinance shall apply
to and be co -extensive with the territory with the boundaries now, or hereafter
established, as the fire limits of this City, except such as are made with
reference to the whole of the City by omission to make directly applicable to
such fire limits, which fire limits are hereby declared to include the follow-
ing, territory; Blocks 87, 88, south half 101; all 102, 103, 1041, 105; west
half and southeast one-fourth 106; south half 107; all 117, 118, 1, 1209 121
122, north half 131; all 132, 133, 134, 135; north half of the following blocks
166, 137, 138, northwest one-fourth 139; east half 149', and west half 150, and
west of Block 166 -- all in the original plat of the City of Lubbock.
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Section 2. Section 8 hereafter reads :as follows; Limits of Height and
Area; No bulldin_ hereafter erected or alte,ced shall exceed four stories or
55 feet in hei,-;ht, sinless it be of fireproff construction, then it shall not
exceed ten stories or 125 feet; except as specified in 'section 22, no building
hereafter erected having walls of hollow terra cotta blocks or concrete blocks
shall exceed three stories or 40 feet in heir-hth.
The floor area between fire vialls of non -fire proof buildings shall
not exceed the followin. When the building fronts on one street, 6250 square
feet,' frontin -; on two streets 9375 square feet, fronting- on three streets 12,500
square feet, these areas m-ay be increased under the follbwinc conditions:
Non -fire proof buildings fullIr equipped v!ith approved automatid
sprinklers, 50 per centum.
For fire proof buildings not exceeding 125 feet in heighth, 50 per centum.
or fire proof buildings, not exceedino,, 125 in height fully equipped with
approved automatic sprinklers, 100 per centum.
Section 3. All ordinances and parts of ordinances in conflict herewith
are repealed. ,
Section 4. The fact that buildings of insizifficient and non -fire resist -
in:; material may be erected under the present ordinance, upon said west half Block
166, increasin:�, :the fire hazards and the fact that under the present ordinance the
floor,area is insufficient, creates an emergency and public necessity that the
rule of the Charter requiring ordinances to be read at two several meetings be,
and the same is, hereby suspended and this ordinance be passed -lnd effective from
its firS't introduction, and it is so enacted.
Fassed and approved this July 26th. 1923, by a unanimous vote of the
Ci t 7 Commission,
Percy Spencer
J. R a — IVIa,yor, Uit \ of Lubbock
i retary, Vit r of Lubbock, Texas.