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HomeMy WebLinkAboutMinutes - City Council - Regular - 7/26/1923July 26th, 1923. The City Commission met in regular session with the following present: Mayor, Percy Spencer, Uommissioners, "I.S.Posey and Geo.C.Wolffarth, R.A. Sowder, City Attorney and ld. S. Rube, City 1,1gr. By a unanimous vote of the Commission the Trayer was authorized to sign Contract with the P.&.S.F.R*B.Co. for a Right of :'fay for the City Nater Mains crossing their tracks on 6th and 12th streets, also for City Sewer mains crossing their tracks on 16th street. The following resolution was read and ordered passed by a unanimous vote of the lity "ommission. TIIE�EFOTiE BE IT RESOLVED, ORDAIN1,,D AND ORDERED that, to pay the principal and interest of a series of warrants issued or to be issued to the Fair- banks %rye & Company, in payment for said machinery, and the installation of same, there is hereby appropaited and set aside all sums of money received from the operation of the waterworks and electric light plant of said City over and above the operatinge expenses thereof, and said sums so received monthly, over and above said operating, expenses, shall be monthly applied to the payment of said warrants and interest thereon as the same matures; that said anticipated receipts from said source are and will be more than sufficient to make payment of the principal and interest of said warrants as it respectively matures. Passed and approved this the 26th day of July, 1923. Percy Spnneer Mayor Asti % mariy.S cc. ' The following Ordinance was read and orpered passed by a unanimous v6te V1tD1j"T,i..i"CE IT •..1 An ordinance, submittin=• to the voters of this City at an election to be held on the 30 day of Au.rust 1923, whereby the qualified voters of this City may determine if Section 1, of Article 7, of the Charter of said City may be so amended as to permit a levy of ?.tZ in .)ne year of the taxable value of property subject to taxation, naming the Officers to hold said election and x rovidint the i lace, and providing for notices of same and. declaring an emergency on account of insufficient revenues to properly care for the needs of the City. Be it ordained by the City Cauncil ( Commission) of the City of Lubboc , Texas. Section 1. There is hereby called an election in this City to be held at the Office of the Citv Secretary in said City on the 30th. day of August 1923, at which the duly qualified voters may determine if Section 1, of Article 7, of the City Charter, adopted by vote, December 27, 1917, shall hereaffter read as follows: "Section 1. S-ai d Citv shall, in addition, be authorized to levy and collect such taxes as may be required for the payment of interest and creation of sinking fund on any bonded indebtedness, existini or created by said C•it,7 under the law and this Charter, provided that the total of all taxes levied for an-7 one year shall not exce(,d 22% of the taxable value of property subject to taxation in this City" Section 2. The followin: persons are hereby appointed judges of S-id election R. T. Penney, R. Pierce and R. B. Smith Section, 3. Certified copies by Mayor and City S;;crc rar.y paoliohed thirty days before s-iid electioh shall be deemed sufficient notice there of, and the Citv Secretary shall mail of each qualified voter, as shown by his rolls on January 31, 1923, a cony of Section 1, article 7, as proposed to be amended. Section 4. The form of the ballots shall be, "Shall Section 1, ,lrticle 7, be amended as proposed? Yes. No. Section 5. The fact that this City is sorely in need of street im- provements and other benefits and that s-me can not be obtained on the present -tax limit, creates an emergency and public necessity that the rule of the Charter requiring an ordinance to be read at two several meetings, b-T .nd some is, hereby suspended and this ordinance rut on its final passage at the meeting of its introduction and. it is so enacted. Fassed b_,T an unanimou: vote and apr roved this 26th day of July 1923. Percy Spencer Attest-.`` J. R. Germ -any Niay0r. City Seer-�,�`ry �03P The followin v Ordinance was read and ordered passed by a unanimous vote. ORDIN:1NCE NO.s228 An Ordinance to amend Section No. 1, and Section No. 8, of Ordinance No. 204 of the Cit7 of Lubbock, pa.ssect. i3na approved April 11, 1922, de- signating fire limit of City of Lubbock and other purposes so as to place west 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 And declaring an emergency on account of the hazards of fire and the faulty construction and to conform floor area 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. The provisions of this ordinance shall apply to and be co -extensive with the territog with the boundaries now, or hereafter established, as the fire limits of this ity, 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, 104, 105; west half and southeast one-fourth 106; south half 107; all 117, 118, 11q, 120, 121 122, north half 131; all 132, 1339 134, 135; north half of the following; blocks 1369 137, 138, northwest one-fourth 139; east half 1494 and west half 150, and west of Block 166 -- all in the original plat of the City of Lubbock. Section 2, Section 8 hereafter reads :as follows; Limits of Height and Area; No buildin hereafter erected or altered shall exceed four stories or 55 feet in height, unless 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 heig;hth. The floor area between fire walls of non -fire proof buildings shall not excee6 the followin ; When the building fronts on one street, 6250 sonare feet,' fronting; on two streets 9375 square feet, fronting• on three streets 12,500 square feet, these areas may be increased under the following conditions: Non -fire proof buildings fully equipped with approved automatid sprinklers, 50 per centum. For fire proof buildings not exceeding 125 feet in heighth, 50 per centum. ?or fire proof buildings, not exceed inS 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 o-_f- insufficient and non -fire resist - inn material may be erected under the present ordinance, upon said west half Block 166, inereasinv 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 ind this ordinance be pissed and effective from 1 its first introduction, and it is so enacted. Passed and approved this Jul- 26th. 1923$ by a unanimous vote of the Ci t I Commission. f Eyx Percy Spencer — Mayor, N ty of Lubbock J. R aV its ¢retary, "it7 of Lubbovk, Texas. The followN Ordinn ce was read and ordered passed ,1-, a unanimous vote. ORDI1UTICE NO. 229. AN ORDII ,NCE GRANTING THE P'ECOS AND I?ORTHERN TEXAS RAILWAY COMPANY, I ..� CORPORATION, ITS LESSEE, THE 1AITHa DLE :�11D SIRTA FE R!ILJ!Y COEPANY, AND ITS SUUCESSO.?S -�I?T AMONS, THE RI 7T _ TI) PRIVILEGE OF LAYING TRACES UPON .d4D _CROSS CERTAIN CITY STREETS, ANT MAINT LINING THE SAME and- declaring an emergency. Be it ordained by the Cit7 Council of the City of Lubbock, Texas] Section 1: That the Pecos and Northern Texas Railway Company, i corporation and its lessee, the Panhandle and Santa Fe Railway Company, and its successors and assigns, be and it is hereby given the right, rower, and privilege of locating, building, erecting, constructing, and properly maintaining an industrial tract with the necessary turnouts, switch stands, and other necessary appliances connected 1 40 therewith across and upon the streets in the corporate limits of the git;T of Lubbock, Texas, designated as follows: Uron tnd across Sixth Otreet, between Avenues "I" and "J". Section 2: That this ordinance become effective from and after its passage Section 3: The fact that there is need of such track creates emergency and public necessity that the rule of the Charter requiring a reading at tso several meetings be suspended and this be passed at meeting of its introduction and it is so ordered. Passed and adopted this the 26th. day of July, n. D. 1923. Allroved,.this the26th. day of July A. D. 1923. r-� rerov Ipencer. • �_ Mayor. City Secretary.