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392 1 and at least four (4) inches above each floor level. :Mair carriages shall be fire. stopped at least once in the middle partition of each run. SEC. 26, Areaways. A1.1 areaways shall be guarded with 84itable railings, or be protected by in. combustible n - combustible eovers or gratings. If gratings be used they shall have a wire screen of not more than 1/2 inch mesh securely attached to the under side. Areaways shall not project beyond the lot line. SEC. 27. Dwelling houses; prohibited location. (a)No dwelling house shall be placed over, or be connectdd directly with a stable, barn, haymow, public garage, dry cleaning establishment, planing mill, carpenter p ter shop, or paint shop. (b) Any frame building which may hereafter have the first story coverted into store shall have the walls, partitions, and ceilings of such dirst story hovered with metal lath and plastered to a total thickness of not less than 3/4 inch, or plaster board may be used if covered with sheet metal. Fire stops shall also be provi dedat the line of the ceiling to cut off all connection from stories above through hoillow stud partitions or side walls. Sec. 28. Frame buildings. (a) No frame building hereafter erected or altered shall exceed two stories in height, except that private dwellings may be three stories high. (b) No frame building hereafter erected for any occupancy other than grain elecators, coal elevators and pockets, ice houses, exhibition buildings, and structure for temporary occupancy for a specified period and thensubject to special permission shall cover a ground area exceeding the following: One -Story building --7,500 sq. ft. Two-story building --5,000 sq. ft. (c) In no case shall the extreme projection of a frame building, be erected within 5 feet of the side or rear lot line, nor within 10 feet of another building on the same lot, unless the space between the etude an such side be filled solidly with not les than 2-1/2 inches of brickwork or other equivalent incombustible material. (d) In rows of frame houses the dividing walls or partitions between houses shall be built of brick, terra cotta, concrete or other incombustible material, or they may be built with 4 inch :Muds, filled solidly with brickwork laid in mortar, or with other incombustible material. If lath be used in such partitions it shall be metal lath. Such dividing ptirtitions, it shall be metal lath. Such dividing partitions shall rest on masonry walls and shall extend to under side of roof boards. A fluall mortar joint shall be made between the roof boards and the wall or partition. In rows of more than three houses every alternate division walll or parition shall be constructed of solid brick work not less than eight (6) inches in thic#neas. (e) Buildings with wooden framework clad with sheet metal, or veneered with brick, shall be claosed as frame buildings. (f) Outside the fire limits, when any building is to be erected of brick, stone, hollow block, or concrete, that could under this ordinanoe be constructed of �vood, the City Manager or other designated official is hereby authorized and directed to allow reason/ able modifications of this ordinance relating to brick buildings, in considereation of the use of incombustible material instead of wood. Such modifications, however, shall not permit variations from the require0ents of sections 1.7, 249 65 of this ordinance. SEC. 28. Light and ventilation.