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AN ORDINANCE PRESCRIBING THE LOCATION OF BUILDINGS HEREAFTER ERECTED, CONSTRUCTED, RE-CONSTRUCTED OR ALTERED ALONG THE STREETS OF THE CITY OF JONESBORO, ARKANSAS (NOTE: THIS ORDINANCE WAS AMENDED BY ORD-62:2766 ON APRIL 2, 1962)
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BE IT ORDAINED by the City council of Jonesboro, Arkansas:
(1) The master street plan for the City of Jonesboro, as prepared and presented in strict compliance with the provisions of the laws of Arkansas, and consisting of Map No. 1 showing community facilities, May No. 2 showing major street system, together with types and sizes of streets and right-of-way, and May No. 3 showing openings and extensions of streets, together with supporting documents, as certified by the City Planning Commission and filed with the City Clerk on June 2, 1955, be, and it is in all parts, adopted and approved.
(2) Hereafter no building permit shall be issued and it shall be unlawful for any person, persons or corporation or other owner of land bordering on any street in the City of Jonesboro, to construct, erect, re-construct, or alter any building nearer or closer to the center line of the surfaced or traveled portion of any such street than:
State and Federal Highways in un-platted areas 60 feet
State and Federal Highways in platted areas 50 feet
Major internal streets 40 feet
Collector streets 40 feet
Service streets 40 feet
Residential streets 30 feet
The designation of type of street being fixed by the master street plan and its accompanying maps, together with any amendments or additions thereto, when the same shall have been adopted by the City Council.
(3) The City Planning Commission or the City Council may waive the provisions of this Ordinance only within the part of the business district of Jonesboro consisting of Church Street, Main Street and Union Street from the tracks of the St. Louis Southwestern Railroad South to Matthews Avenue and on Burke Avenue, Huntington Avenue, Monroe Avenue, Washington Av...
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