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ORDINANCE N0. 7004
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SUB - SECTIONS 7 AND 8 OF SECTION 34 OF ORDI-
NANCE NO. 4866, DECLARING AN EMERGENCY AND FOR OTHER PURPOSES.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF LITTLE ROCK, ARKANSAS:
SECTION 1. Sub - section 7 of Section 34 of Ordinance No.
4866 is hereby amended to read as follows:
7. Business buildings and storage buildings. - -For business
buildings and storage buildings of firesafe and slow- burning con -
struotion shall not exceed ten thousand (10,000) square feet;
ordinary and all -metal construction shall not exceed six - thousand
(6,000) square feet; protected -frame construction shall not exceed
two thousand (2,000) square feet. Storage buildings and buildings
used partly for storage of frame construction outside the fire
limits may be of five thousand (5,000) square feet if over ten
(10) feet from any side or rear lot line, may be seven thousand
five hundred (7,500) square feet if over forty (40) feet from
the side or rear lot line.
SECTION 2. Sub - section 8 of Section 34 of Ordinance No.
4866 of the ordinances of the City of Little flock is hereby
amended to read as follows:
8. Area modification. - -(a) The limiting areas fixed in
this section may be increased by fifty (50) per cent when the
building has frontage on two streets and by one hundred (100)
per cent when it has frontage on three or more streets.
(b) The limiting areas fixed in this section for all build-
ings as modified on account of street frontage, may be doubled
whenthe building is sprinklered.
SECTION 3. Because an adequate building code is necessary
to encourage the growth of industry and to afford needed industrial
employment to the citizens of Little Rook; and because an adequate
building code is necessary also in order to protect the persons
and property of the citizens of Little Rock from the danger of
fire; and because the above provisions of this ordinance will
correct errors and defects in the existing code and will serve
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to protect the citizens of Little Rock and promote their best
interests; an emergency is hereby found to exist and this ordi-
nance is found to be necessary for the preservation of the public
peace, health and safety, and the same shall be in full force and
effeot from and after its passage.
PASSED; May 13, 1946
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ATTEST:
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