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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Jul 19, 1913
Page
9
City of San Antonio adopts a building ordinance requiring a Mayor appointed Building Inspector and Assistant. Plans exceeding 16000 dollars require duplicate copies and inspections, with permits issued for compliant erections and alterations. Permits expire if no work starts within six months. inspectors must approve or reject plans within a reasonable time.
A historic ordinance details street and sidewalk safety during building work in the business district. It requires tight board fencing, covered temporary walks, dust control, guarded excavations, red lights near obstructions, and limited street occupancy with permits. It also defines structure terms and sets material, load, and safety computations for buildings.
Special notice lays out stress per square inch limits for various materials including cast iron, wrought steel, white pine, chestnut, hemlock, locust, and others. It details allowable compressive, tensile, and bending stresses, column eccentricity rules, safe loads for concrete, stone, brick, and metal members, and wind design requirements with a 30 lb per sq ft horizontal wind pressure and 75 percent stability cap.
Foundations rules specify using brick, stone, iron, steel or concrete and prohibit unified earth foundations. Concrete footings must be twelve inches thick for concrete bases, or stone blocks two by three feet with eight inch wall thickness, and wideness beyond walls and columns. Wood spiles must be cut below the water line and not loaded above forty thousand pounds.
The code sets brick wall thickness by building type and height, with a table for independent and surrounding walls. It requires corbelled or thicker party walls in non fireproof buildings, specifies maximum story heights, bonding and anchoring standards, and rules for linings and piers to ensure structural integrity.
Historic zoning text outlines rules for walls chimneys and parapet thicknesses maximum heights and materials with fireproofing sprinklers and locked chases. It details timber prohibition in walls hollow brick lining interior wall terms and harsh construction requirements for mills and slow burning structures.
The text details fireproof construction rules including limits on height and occupancy, floor and wall materials, and required fireproofing for columns, arches, and girders. It also covers stair materials, partition methods, incasing, and painting requirements for metal structural work.
The article outlines fireproofing and thickness requirements for concrete and reinforcing bars, centering and formwork rules, placement and curing of concrete, weather restrictions, and inspection duties. It specifies mixture ratios, minimum strengths, monolithic rib and slab continuity, and the need for complete drawings before erection.
The ordinance outlines demolition procedures for building removal from top stories downward and dust control. It assigns duties to the Building Inspector to inspect, suspend work, and enforce permits, with police officers to record and halt unpermitted operations. It applies to erection alteration and repair under city code.
Foundation Wall means the portion of an enclosing wall below the first floor joists or beams above grade and any interior wall below the basement floor. Fire Wall means parapet walls above the roof and partitions that divide spaces for fire protection. Retaining Wall resists lateral earth pressure and holds earth or internal loads.
The section mandates guarding excavations to prevent danger to life and requires sheath-piling when needed. It assigns the excavator the expense of protecting adjoining property and demands foundations extend below frost depth for safe support of brick and stone structures.
The code requires all buildings with seating over 1000 or heights above specified limits to be fireproof. Walls must be brick stone or steel and floors roofs steel or reinforced concrete with noncombustible framing. Wood and inflammable materials are banned in partitions and ceilings except for limits when height is under the threshold.
The article outlines Part II requirements for chimneys flues and heating appliances including brick and stone walls eight inches thick unless lined with clay or terra cotta pipe, minimum flue sizes eight by eight inches and eight by twelve inches for certain stoves, double walls and fire mortar near heat sources, trimmer arches for hearths and rules for plastering and insulation to prevent fire spread. It also details construction from foundations and bonding to walls and prohibits wood framing near chimneys, with specifications for low and high temperature flues and necessary clearances.
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