Las Vegas City Ordinances, November 13, 1950 to August 6, 1958, lvc000015-309

ORDINANCE NO. 606 AN ORDINANCE TO PROVIDE FOR THE REDUCTION OF THE BUILDING SITE AREA REQUIREMENTS IN THE MEADOWS ADDITION TO THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS; PROVIDING OTHER MATTERS RELATED THERETO; AND REPEALING ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH. WHEREAS, The Master Plan of Land Use, 1953 Revision, for the City of Las Vegas, has classified the entire area designated on the Official Maps as the Meadows Addition, as an R-3 (Limited Multiple,) R-4 (Apartment Residence), C-1 (Limited Commercial) and C-2 (General Commercial), Use Districts; and WHEREAS, the lot size of the lots in said Addition contain only 6,000 square feet, necessitating a variance in every case of application for multiple dwellings since the minimum building site area requirement in an R-3 (Limited Multiple) or R-4 (Apartment Resident) z:one is 7,000 feet. WHEREAS, in order to save time and expense in the future it will be in the public interest to provide for the issuance of building permits without first applying for a variance in each case. THE BOARD OF COMMISSIONERS OF THE CITY OF LAS VEGAS, DO ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. From and after the passage of this ordinance, the minimum building site requirement of 7000 square feet for the construction of multiple dwellings shall be reduced to 6,000 square feet for those lots in the Meadow Addition classified as R-3 in the Master Plan of Land Use, 1953 Revision. In no case, however, shall a multiple dwelling or dwelling group occupy a site which provides less than 1700 square feet of land per family or dwelling unit in said R-3 (Limited Multiple) classification. SECTION 2. From and after the passage of this ordinance, the minimum building site requirement of 7,000 square feet for the construction of multiple dwellings shall be reduced to 6,000 square feet for those lots in the Meadows Addition classified as R-4 in the Master Plan of Land Use, 1953 Revision. In no case, however, shall a multiple dwelling or dwelling group occupy a site which provided less than 700 square feet of land per family or dwelling unit in said R-4 classification SECTION 3. Upon passage of this ordinance, the Building Department shall issue the necessary permits without requiring a variance, provided the plans of such construction are in accordance with any other ordinances of the City. SECTION 4. All ordinances or parts of ordinances in conflict herewith are hereby repealed. SECTION 5. This ordinance shall be in full force and effect upon its final reading and adoption and final publication as in the next section provided. SECTION 6. The City Clerk of the Board of Commissioners of the City of Las Vegas shall cause this ordinance to be published once a week for two successive weeks immediately following its first reading and adoption in the Las Vegas Review Journal, a daily newspaper published in the City of Las Vegas. ATTEST: Mayor Pro Tem City Clerk The above and foregoing ordinance was first proposed and read by title to the Board of City Commissioners on the 7th day of April, 1954, and referred to the following committee composed of Commissioners Jarrett and Sharp for recommendation; thereafter the said committee reported favorably on said ordinance on the 21st day of April, 1954, which was the regular meeting held on the 21st day of April, 1954, the proposed ordinance was read in full to the Board of Commissioners as first introduced and adopted by the following vote: Voting "Aye": Commissioners Bunker, Jarrett, Sharp and Mayor Pro Tem Whipple. Voting "Nay": none Absent: Mayor C. D. Baker ATTEST: APPROVED: City Clerk Mayor Pro Tem AFFIDAVIT OF PUBLICATION COUNTY OF CLARK) ss# STATE OF NEVADA) Richard Lochrie, being first duly sworn, deposes and says: That he is Foreman of the LAS VEGAS MORNING SUN, a daily newspaper of general circulation, printed and published at Las Vegas, in the County of Clark, State of Nevada, and that the attached was continuously published in said newspaper for a period of two weeks from April 25, 1954 to May 2, 1954, inclusive, being the issued of said newspaper for the following dates, to-wit: April 25, May 2, 1954. That said newspaper was regularly issued and circulated on each of the dates above named. Signed Richard Lochrie__________ Subscribed and sworn to before me this 3rd day of June, 1954 Barbara J. Greenspun_______ Notary Public in and for Clark County, Nevada My Commission Expires March 17, 1956