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217 1974 74-56 - "I submit the attached ordinance and recommend it be placed on first reading This appropriates $29,645.57 in the Capital Improvement Fund for improvements to Sleepy Hole Park 5oif Course, This appropriation is for the funds appropriated on a previous ordinance from the Revenue Sharing Trust Fund for capital expenditures in the category of recreation. The above appropriation includes $21,676 for bulkhead work necessary around the 18th green of the golf course to protect this green from erosion, $1,494 for three drinking fountains, $5,475 for.'a 6~ft. high chain link fence, and $1,000 to install drain pipes under the fence along the highway." On motion of Mr. smith and seconded by Mr. Johnson, the following ordinance was approved on first reading, and by the following vote: "AN ORDINANCE TO APPROPRIATE $29,645.57 IN THE GENERAL CAPITAL IMPROVEMENT FUND FOR CAPITAL IMPROVEMENTS AT SLEEPY HOLE PARK." Ayes: Nays: Johnson, King, Smith, Wentz, Barnes None 74-57 "City Council, at its last meeting, requested that the City Manager investiga: and report back on a building which has been moved to 301 Taft Drive from another location Council received a petition from the residents of the 300 block of Taft Drive concerning this matter. The petition stated that this building would be a hazard to the community because 7 feet was not enough distance from the gas plant. They also stated that the house would bring down the value of properties zn that area. The building that was moved onto the lot at 301 Taft Drive meets the Building Code and the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Portsmouth. The building is sound and permits have been issued for two additions to it. Upon completion, this building will equal or exceed the value of those in the immediate vicinity. The lot on which it was placed is the largest lot in the area. ~'~en completed, this building should not be a detriment to the neighborhood. The gas company's fence adjoins the lot at this location; however, the fence does not mark the M-1 zoning district boundary. Part of the area o~med by the gas company within their fenced property is residential zoning. The gas company operation ~s approxi- mately 100 feet east of this fence. The house in question is 12 feet from the east pr~per.Vy line and this is a much greater distance than the law requires. The Zoning Ordinance requires at least 20 feet adjacent to the residential district when an industria district abuts such a residential district. In the event of expansion by the gas company this requirement would have to be maintained on their side of the fence." Motion of Mr. Smith and seconded by Mr. King, to be received as information and a copy be sent to the petitioner, was adopted by unanimous vote. 74-58 -"~submit the attached resolution and recommend it be adopted. This isiin support for passage of House Bill No. 1 dealing with the State-wide Building Code. Delegate Schlitz ~s a patron of this bill. This would allow any county, city or town which adoptes a local Building Code con- forming to the standards of the Southern Building Code Congress to be exempt from the State-wide Building Code. This will allow us to continue using the codes that we are now using. A similar resolution was passed last year." On motion of Mr. Smith and seconded by Mr. King, the following resolution was adopted, and by the following vote: "A RESOLUTION REQUESTING THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE CITY OF PORTSMOUTH IN THE GENE~&L ASSEMBLY TO VIGOROUSLY SUPPORT DURING THE 1974 SESSION OF THE ASSEMBLY, HOUSE BILL 1 RELATING TO THE USE OF THE SOUTHERN STANDARD BUILD- ING CODE AS AN ALTERNATIVE TO THE BUILDING CODE PRESENTLY PRESCRIBED BY TB~ UNIFORM STATE WIDE BUILDING CODE. WHEREAS, the State Board of Housing pursuant to legislation of the General Assembly has adopted as the Uniform State Wide Building Code a building code different from the one presently in use in Portsmouth; and ~{EREAS, the Southern Standard Building Code is the code presently in effect in the City of Portsmouth; and WHEREAS, it is the preference of the Council of the City of Portsmouth that the Southern Standard Building Code be allowed to be continued in use indefinitely in the City of Portsmouth; and WHEREAS, House Bill 1 as proposed would allow localities to utilize the Southern Standard Building Code as an alternative to the code presently prescribed in the Uniform State Wide Building Code. NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the Council of the City of Portsmouth, Virginia, that the representatives of the City of Portsmouth in the General Assembly be, and are .hereby requested to support ~use Bill 1 during the 1974 Session so as to allow localities the continued use of the Southern Standard Building Code."