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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING AND RF -ENACTING SECTION 494 (16) OF THE CODE
<br />OF 1932 ENTITLED "WALLS"
<br />BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Charlottesville that Section 494 (16)
<br />of the Code of 1932 be amended and re-enacted so as to read as follows:
<br />This ordinance shall be in force from its passage and all ordinances, or parts of
<br />ordinances, in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
<br />Adopted by the Council May 20, 1935.
<br />Ayes: Mr. Fife, Dr. Haden, Mr. Huff,
<br />Mr. Jessup, and Mr. Twyman.
<br />Noes: None.
<br />Clerk
<br />President
<br />SEC. 494 (16) A. WALLS.
<br />For the purpose of determining wall thickness as specified in this subsection
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<br />basements and subbasements shall be considered as stories.
<br />(a) The exterior or division walls of all buildings hereafter erected within
<br />the corporate limits shall be of sufficient thickness to support the load to be carried;
<br />but in no case shall a brick, stone, concrete, or hollow block wall be less than twelve
<br />(12) inches thick except panel walls, non -load bearing and in dwelling house class.
<br />(b) Walls, for warehouse class only (excepting party and fire -walls, for all
<br />buildings of other than the dwelling house class) not exceeding four stories or fifty-five
<br />(55) feet in height, shall have the upper two stories not less than twelve (12) inches
<br />thick, increasing four (4) inches in thickness for each two stories or fraction thereof
<br />below.
<br />(c) For all walls of buildings of the dwelling house class the upper two
<br />stories shall be not less than eight (8) inches thick, increasing four (4) inches in
<br />thickness for each two stories or fraction thereof below, excepting that gable walls
<br />shall not necessitate an increase in wall thickness.
<br />(d) Panel walls in skeleton construction must be of masonry laid in cement
<br />mortar or masonry cement if approved and shall be at least 8" thick where the vertical
<br />distance between girders does not exceed 10 ft. and shall be increased 4" for each
<br />ten feet or fraction thereof that the said vertical distance exceeds ten feet.
<br />Curtain walls must be of masonry laid in cement mortar or masonry cement
<br />mortar if approved and shall be not less than 12" thick, increased 4" for every ad-
<br />ditional section of 3 stories or 45ft. They shall be anchored to the framing at each
<br />floor level, anchors spaced not more than 6 ft. apart horizontally.
<br />(e) In all buildings except dwellings, frame buildings, and skeleton
<br />construction, party walls and fire walls which serve as bearing walls on both sides,
<br />shall be not less than sixteen (16) inches thick in the upper two stories or upper
<br />thirty (30) feet, increasing four (4) inches in thickness for each two stories or
<br />fraction thereof below. All other fire walls shall be not less than twelve (12)
<br />inches thick in the tipper four stories for upper fifty feet, increasing four (4)
<br />inches in thickness for each two stories or fraction thereof below. Portland Cement
<br />Mortar or approved Masonry Cement Mortar only shall be used in such walls.
<br />(f) Reinforced stone or gravel concrete walls, with the steel reinforcement
<br />running both horizontally and vertically and wieghing not less than one-half (2) pound
<br />per square foot of wall, may have a thickness four (4) inches less than that prescribed
<br />for brick walls.
<br />(g) Walls built of rubble stone shall be increased 1/132 in thickness over
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<br />that required for brick walls under similar circumstances.
<br />(h) Parapets shall be provided on all firewalls, party walls,, and exterior
<br />walls of masonry or reinforced-conbrete, where such walls connect with roofs other
<br />than roofs of fireproof -construction; provided that a parapet shall not be required
<br />for a wall facing on a street having a width of fifty feet or more, which are finished
<br />with incombustible cornic9s, gutters, or crown mouldings, nor on a wall of a building
<br />the roof of which is ten feet lower than the roof of a building adjoining or adjacent
<br />to such wall, nor on the walls of n detached dwelling, nor on the walls of a building
<br />which is fifty feet or more distant in all directions from other buildings. A parapet
<br />wall when required shall extend the full thickness of the top story to at least three
<br />(3) feet above the roof at all points and shall in all cases be properly capped.
<br />(i) Hollow building blocks may be used for masonry walls excepting party and
<br />fire walls and shall be of sufficient strength to safely carry the loads imposed upon
<br />them. The specification and method of computing this strength of hollow building
<br />blocks shall be in accordance with the requirements established by the National Board
<br />of Fire Underwriters.
<br />(j) All walls and partitions in schools, hospitals and places of public
<br />assemblage, over one story high, and all walls and partitions in theatres, shall
<br />hereafter be built of brick, stone, hollow or solid blocks, or metal lath and Portland
<br />Cement plaster on metal studding, or other equivalent incombustible construction.
<br />This ordinance shall be in force from its passage and all ordinances, or parts of
<br />ordinances, in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
<br />Adopted by the Council May 20, 1935.
<br />Ayes: Mr. Fife, Dr. Haden, Mr. Huff,
<br />Mr. Jessup, and Mr. Twyman.
<br />Noes: None.
<br />Clerk
<br />President
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