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In all buildings except dwellings, frame buildings and skeleton construction, party walls and fire walls which serve as bearing walls on both sides shall be not less than sixteen inches thick in the upper two stories or upper thirty feet, increasing four inches in thickness for each two stories or fraction thereof below. All other fire walls shall be not less than twelve inches thick in the upper four stories for upper fifty feet, incre,.,sing four inches in thickness for each two stories or fraction thereof below. Portland cement mortar or approved masonry cement mortar only shall be used in such walls. Reinforced stone or gravel concrete walls, with the steel reinforcement running both horizontally and vertically and weighing not less than one-half pound per square foot of wall, may have a thickness four inches less than that prescribed for brick walls. Walls built of rubble stone shall be increased one-third inch in thickness over that required for brick walls under similar circumstances. Parapets shall be provided on all fire walls, -)arty walls and exterior walls of masonry or reinforced -concrete, where such walls connect with roofs other than roofs of fireproof construction; provided, that a parapet shall not be required for a wall facing on a street having a width of fifty feet or more, which are finished with incombustible -cornices, gutters or crown mouldings, nor on a wall of a building the roof -of whieh is ten feet lower than the roof of a building adjoining or adjacent to such well,- nor on -the walls of a detached dwelling, nor on the walls of a building which is fifty feet or more distant in all directions from other buildings. A parapet wall when required shall extend the full thickness of the top story to at least three feet above the roof at all points and shall in all cases be properly -capped. Hollow building blocks may be=used for masonry walls excepting party and fire walls and shall be of sufficient strength to safely carry the loads imposed upon then; provided, however, that hollow masonry building blocks may be used for fire walls provided such -blocks carry the label of approval by the National Board of Fire ,Underwriters and comply with the specifications - of said board. with respect to strength and fire resistance for mat rials to be used in fire walls. The specification and method of computing the strength of hollow building blocks shall be in accordance with the requirements established by the National Board of Fire Underwriters. All walls and partitions in schools., hospitals and p1rices of public assemblage, over one story high, and all walls and partitions in theptres, shall hereof ter be built of brick, stone, hollow or solid blocks, or metal lath and Portland cement plaster on metal studding, or other equivalent incombustible construction. (Id., Sec. 494 (16); Ord.=May 20, 1935. Adopted by the Council June 16, 1947 Ayes: Mr. Adams, Mr. Gleason, Mr. Nash, Mr. Tebell, and Mr. Watson. Noes: None n� _ Pr'e6ident ' AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 2 OF CHAPTER 33 OF THE CHARLOTTESVILLE CITY CODE OF 1945 ENTITLED "ZONING DISTRICTS". BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE THAT SECTION 2 OF CHAPTER 33 OF THE CHARLOTTESVILLE CITY CODE OF 1945, SAID SECTION BEING THE SECTION OF GENERAL ZONING ORDINANCES ESTABLISHING AND DEFINING CLASSES OF DISTRICTS, BE AND THE SAME IS HEREBY AMENDED IN THE FOLLOWINGI£SPECT: CHANGE NO. 3. THAT THE FOLLOWING DISTRICT, TERRITORY LOCATED WITHIN A DISTRICT DESIGNATED ON THE BUILDING ZONE MAP OF CHARLOTTESVILLE DATED MARCH 29, 19399 AS AN A-1 RESIDENCE DISTRICTV BE CHANGED TO AND DESIGNATED AS AN A RESIDENCE DISTRICT: THE FOLLOWING LOTS DESIGNATED AND DESCRIBED ON A PLAT OF THE SUB- DIVISION KNOWN AS UNIVERSITY PLACE FRONTING ON LINDEN AVENUE, NAMELY LOTS No. 34, 35 AND 35(A). THE SAID TERRITORY BEING ALSO PARTICULARLY DESCRIBED BY A PLAT SPREAD IN THE ORDINANCE BOOK OF THE CITY OF CHARLOTTESVILLE, WHERE THIS ORDINANCE IS RECORDED AND IDENTIFIED BY REFERENCE THERETO. THIS ORDINANCE SHALL BE IN FULL FORCE FROM THE DATE OF ITS PASSAGE AND ALL ORDINANCES OR PARTS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT HEREWITH ARE HEREBY REPEALED* CLERK ADOPTED BY THE COUNCIL JULY 7, 1947 AYES: MR. ADAMS, MR. GLEASON, AND MR. WATSON. NOES•. NONE. PRESIDENT 1