title
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NO.954 BY CHANGE OF ZONING DISTRICT BOUNDARIES AND INCREASING JURISDICTION OF BOARD OF ZONING ADJUSTMENT
body
BE IT ORDAINED AND ENACTED, by the City Council of the City of Jonesboro, Arkansas, that Ordinance No.954, known as the Zoning Ordinance of Jonesboro, be amended as follows:
SECTION 1: Amend the Official Zoning Map, as described in Article II, Section 1, as follows:
(A) All of that area south of the Railway East of Bridge Street and North of Cate Avenue to be classified as I-1 Industrial, instead of R-2 Residential.
(B) Change from I-2 Industrial to I-1 Industrial the following tract: Bounded on the East by Culberhouse Street, on the North by St. Louis Southwestern Railway right-of-way, on the West by Gee Street, and on the South by Burke Avenue as extended.
(C) Change from R-2 Residential to C-1 Commercial the following tract: Bounded by East Washington Avenue on the South, Carson Street on the West, Baker Street on the East, and the North line being approximately 160 feet North f and parallel to the North line of Washington Avenue, and including the South Half of Lots 1, 2 and 3 of Cobb’s Survey of Section 18, Township 14 North, Range 4 East, and Lots 1, 2, 3 and 4 of Block 2 of Washington Addition, and Lots 4, 5 and 6 in Block 5 of Broadway Addition.
(D) Classify Pyle’s Addition and Pyle’s Second Addition as R-3 Residential.
SECTION 2: Article V, Section 5(c) of Ordinance No.954 be amended by addition of the following:
“The Board of Zoning Adjustment is empowered to permit variances in set-back or in yard requirements in keeping with the character of the neighborhood involved and for cause shown, not, however, permitting any variance not meeting the Federal Housing Administration “Minimum Property Requirements.”
SECTION 3: It is found and declared that certain construction that is in the pubic interest and contributes to the welfare, health, and safety of the general public is delayed awaiting passage of this ordinance, and, the same being therefore necessary to the preservation of the public peace, health and safety, an emergency is declared, and this Ordinance shall be in force from and after its passage and publication.
PASSED and ADOTED this 4th day of August, 1958.