Las Vegas City Ordinances, March 31, 1933 to October 25, 1950, lvc000014-101

ORDINANCE NO. 235 AN ORDINANCE TO AMEND SECTION 1 OF ORDINANCE NUMBER 168 OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS, ENTITLED: "AN ORDINANCE OF THE COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS, ESTABLISHING A RESIDENCE DISTRICT, INDUSTRIAL AND COMMERCIAL DISTRICTS WITHIN THE SAID CITY OF LAS VEGAS: DEFINING SUCH DISTRICTS: DECLARING IT UNLAWFUL TO ERECT, ESTABLISH, MAINTAIN, OR OPERATE CERTAIN FACTORIES, WORKS OR ESTABLISHMENTS WITHIN SAID RES­IDENCE DISTRICTS AND SAID COMMERCIAL DISTRICTS: REGULATING THE ERECTION, ESTABLISH­MENT, MAINTENANCE, OPERATION AND REBUILDING OF CERTAIN WORKS OR ESTABLISHMENTS IN SAID DISTRICTS: PROVIDING PENALTIES FOR THE VIOLATION OF SAID ORDINANCE, AND REPEALING ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH." The Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas, do ordain as follows: SECTION 1. Section 1 of said Ordinance Number 168 is hereby amended to read as fol­lows: That all of the City of Las Vegas is hereby established as and declared to be a residence district, excepting therefrom those portions of the City included within the boundaries of the hereinafter described commercial districts and indus­trial districts and said residence district is hereby divided into three zones, bounded and restricted as follows: RESIDENCE ZONE NO. 1: That portion of said City of Las Vegas lying east of the alley between Fifth Street and Sixth Street, east of the alley between Fifth Street and Sixth Street, west of the alley between Tenth Street and Eleventh Street, and the alley between Clark Street and LaSalle Street, north of Lewis Street and south of the north line of Buck's Subdivision and Grandview Addition, and that por­tion of the City of Las Vegas lying east of the alley between Second Street and Third Street, west of the alley between Fourth Street and Fifth Street, north of Charleston Boulevard, and south of Garces Street, shall be subject to the following restrictions: (a) Ownership and occupancy shall be restricted to persons of the Caucasian Race. (b) All of said zone shall be restricted to residences or dwellings of a minimum value of Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000); courts and apartment houses, flats or duplexes to a minimum value of Eight Hundred Fifty Dollars ($850) per room; with no single building for residence purposes of a less value than Three Thousand Dollars ($3,000); and no house or building shall be moved into said district that is of less value than Three Thousand Dollars ($5,000) when completed, and that the same must be completed within ninety days from the time such building is moved into said district and no building shall be occupied for living purposes until the same is entirely completed. (c) All buildings must be set back from the street on which the lot faces, or front street, at least twenty-five feet, and there shall be not more than two separate residences on each fifty (50) feet lot. (d) No tent house, shack or garage shall be erected, maintained or occupied as a dwelling except for a maximum period of ninety (90) days during actual construc­tion of a residence or other dwelling on the same property in conformity with City Ordinances. RESIDENCE ZONE NO. 2: That portion of said city lying east of the alley be­tween Fifth Street and Sixth Street, west of the alley between Tenth Street and Eleventh Street, north of Charleston Boulevard and south of Lewis Street, shall be subject to the following restrictions: (a) Ownership and occupancy shall be restricted to persons of the Caucasian race. (b) All of said zone shall be restricted to one single family residence of a minimum value of Thirty-five Hundred Dollars ($5500) and no house or building shall be moved into said zone. (c) All buildings must be set back from the street which lot faces, or front street, at least twenty-five feet and there shall be not more than one family dwell­ing on each fifty feet lot, provided that on 75 feet corner lots, and on lots upon which there is already erected one dwelling on the rear of said lot, one additional single family dwelling may be erected subject to the above mentioned setback. RESIDENCE ZONE NO. 5. All of the City of Las Vegas, not included in the limit of Residence Zone No. 1 and Residence Zone No. 2, shall be considered as Residence Zone No. 3, excepting those sections classified as Commercial districts and indus­trial districts. SECTION 2. The City Clerk is hereby authorized to have this Ordinance pub­lished in the Las Vegas Review-Journal, a daily newspaper printed and published in the City of Las Vegas, Clark County, Nevada for a period of two weeks, that is tp say, once each week for a period of two weeks. Attest: H. P. MARBLE Viola Burns City Clerk Mayor City Seal. The above and foregoing Ordinance was proposed, read aloud in-full and adopted this _____ day of _________, A D 1938 by the following vote: Commissioners _________, ______________, _______________, _______________________, and ______________________ Voting AYE. Voting No, none. Absent, ___________. This ordinance was read aloud to the Board of Commissioners at a recessed regular meeting of the Board held on the 22nd day of April, 1938, at which time it was proposed, considered and voted upon and unanimously adopted and thereafter pub­lished in the Las Vegas Evening Review-Journal, a daily newspaper published in the City of Las Vegas for a period of once a week for two consecutive weeks immed­iately following its first reading. And, it was read aloud to the Board for a second time at a recessed regular meeting of the Board held on the 12th day of August, 1938. Voting aye; Commissioners Corradetti, Luce, Krause and Ronnow and His Honor the Mayor. H P. Marble. Noes, None. Absent, None. (City Seal) Mayor of the City of Las Vegas.