Article 1717
NUMBERING BUILDINGS
Sections:
1717.01 Base lines established for numbering.
1717.03 Map preparation and record.
1717.04 Buildings to be numbered – Failure to comply.
1717.05 Numbering in the Fifth Ward.
1717.01 Base lines established for numbering.
For the purpose of numbering the houses and building lots in regular order within the corporate limits of the city, there shall be and hereby are established two base lines. The one taken at a point exactly one mile due north from the northeast corner of the chapel building of Allegheny College shall run eastwardly and westwardly parallel with Chestnut Street. The other, taken at a point on the eastern face of the western abutment of Dock Street Bridge, shall run northwardly and southwardly parallel with Park Avenue. (Ord. 144 § 1, 1875)
1717.02 Manner of numbering.
The front on each and every street in this city shall be measured and divided into 20-foot lots, to each of which shall be given an alternate number at the left hand side commencing with the base line, number one, and with number two on the right hand. (Ord. 144 § 2, 1875)
1717.03 Map preparation and record.
Council shall appoint some suitable person or persons to measure and divide the city into lots, and cause a map or chart of the city to be made showing all the streets, lanes and alleys thereof, and the number of each and every lot measured and divided as prescribed in the foregoing paragraph, which map or chart shall be filed in the council rooms of this city, and shall also be copied into a book to be kept as a record thereof. (Ord. 144 § 3, 1875)
1717.04 Buildings to be numbered – Failure to comply.
The owner or owners of each and every house or building fronting upon any public street, court place or alley within the corporate limits of this city shall, within 30 days after the passage of the ordinance codified in this article, cause to be affixed to his, her or their house, houses, building or dwellings, in a conspicuous place thereon and in legible figures, no less than two inches in height, the number or numbers thereof, and the owners of every house, building or dwelling hereafter built shall, within 30 days after such building shall be completed or occupied, affix thereon the number or numbers as aforesaid, and upon neglect or refusal of the owner or owners of any building or buildings, within the corporate limits of this city, to comply with the provisions of this article, and, after 30 days’ written or printed notice to do so, council shall cause the number or numbers to be affixed thereon, and the costs thereof collected from the owner or owners thereof in like manner as debts due the city are collectible. (Ord. 144 § 5, 1875)
1717.05 Numbering in the Fifth Ward.
For the purpose of providing a method of the numbering of houses and lots in the Fifth Ward of the city, it is hereby enacted that on streets running north and south in the Fifth Ward of the city the houses and lots shall begin with Number 1 at the back channel of French Creek and shall number northwardly one number for each 25 feet, the even numbers on the east side and odd numbers on the west side, continuing northwardly to Race Street; beginning on the north side of Race Street with Number 101, such numbering shall continue northward giving 25 feet for each number, the odd numbers on the west side, and even numbers on the east side, to Kearney Street; at Kearney Street the numbers shall begin with 201 and continue northward in the same manner to Lyon Street; at Lyon Street the numbers shall begin with Number 301, and continue northwardly in the same manner. Upon all streets running east and west, the numbering shall begin at Wadsworth Street, and shall number eastwardly in the same manner, giving 25 feet front to each number, the even numbers being on the south side of the street, and the odd numbers on the north side. The first number on the west side of each north and south street being 100 greater than the first number on the west side of the next street eastward therefrom. (Ord. 889 § 1, 1908)