Chapter 3505. Providing for the establishment of a uniform building line on streets in the District of Columbia less than ninety feet in width
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CHAP. 3505.— An Act Providing for the establishment of a uniform building line on streets in the District of Columbia less than ninety feet in width. June 21, 1906. [[S. 59](/us/bill/59/s/59).] [[Public, No. 259](/us/pl/59/259).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* District of Columbia.Building lines on streets less than 90 feet wide. That the Commissioners of the District of Columbia be, and they are hereby, authorized to establish building lines on streets or parts of streets less than ninety feet wide, in the District of Columbia, upon the presentation to them of a plat of the street or part of street upon which such action is desired, Petition.showing the lots and the names of the record owners thereof, and accompanied by a petition of the owners of more than one-half of the real estate shown on said plat requesting that building lines be established. or when the Commissioners deem that the public interests *Proviso.*Condition.require that such building lines be established: *Provided*, that no such building line shall be established on any part of street less than one block in length.
Sec. 2. Condemnation of land. That upon the tiling of such plat and petition in the office of said Commissioners, or when the Commissioners shall deem that the public interests require it, the said Commissioners shall institute condemnation proceedings in the supreme court of the District of Columbia, sitting as a district court, by a petition in rem, particularly describing the land to be taken, which petition shall be accompanied by duplicate plats, to be prepared by the surveyor of said District, showing the location of said proposed building lines, the number of square feet to be taken from each lot or part of lot and the boundaries thereof in each square or block, and such other information as may be necessary for the purposes of such condemnation.
Upon the filing of such petition, one copy of the plat, indorsed with the docket number of the case, shall be returned by the clerk of said court to the said surveyor for record in his office. Sec. 3. Condemnation proceedings.Vol. 33, p. 734. That the condemnation proceedings herein provided for shall be in accordance with the provisions of sections sixteen hundred and eight f to sixteen hundred and twelve, both inclusive, of the Code of Law of the District of Columbia as amended February twenty-third, nineteen hundred and five, as far as the same are applicable; and that 385the assessment proceedings and assessment area for the establishment of building lines herein provided for shall be the same as that provided in section sixteen hundred and eight j of said Code for assessments in the opening, extension, widening, and straightening of alleys or minor streets, in the same manner as if the establishment of building lines had been included in said section.
Sec. 4. That said Commissioners, whenever they deem it desirableProjecting buildings. in the interest of economy, may permit buildings existing at the time said building lines are established and which project beyond said lines to remain until such time as the owner of said buildings desires to reconstruct or substantially alter the said buildings: *Provided*, That*Proviso.*Projections on street parkings. the Act of Congress approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, providing for certain projections upon street parkings shall apply to all parkings established under the Act, and the controlControl of.Vol. 26, p. 868. of said parkings otherwise shall be vested in the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, who are hereby authorized to make and enforce all reasonable and necessary regulations for their care and preservation.
Sec. 5. That the appropriation available for opening alleys andFunds available. minor streets in the District of Columbia is hereby made available for the purpose of establishing building lines as provided for herein. Sec. 6. That the Act of Congress entitled “An Act to provide forRepeal.Vol. 30, p. 802 the establishment of building lines on certain streets in the District of Columbia, and for other purposes,” approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, be, and the same is hereby, repealed.
Approved, June 21, 1906.