An ordinance pertaining to the Lafayette Square Historic District; repealing Ordinance 56248, approved June 30, 1972 and repealing Ordinance 62232, approved March 8, 1991, having as their subject matter the boundary and regulations and standards for the Lafayette Square Historic District, and enacting in lieu thereof a new ordinance containing the boundary and standards of the Lafayette Square Historic District, and containing a severability clause.
BE IT ORDAINED BY THE CITY OF ST. LOUIS AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION ONE.
Ordinance 56248, approved June 30, 1972 and Ordinance 62232, approved March 8, 1991 are hereby repealed.
SECTION TWO
Pursuant to and in accordance with Chapter 24 of the Revised Code of the City of St. Louis, the area set out below is hereby designated as a Historic District to be known as the Lafayette Square Historic District and shall consist of the area described as follows:
H. Crossman's Subdivision in City Block 482E, property owned now or formerly by the Eden Partnerships; thence south along said east line of Lot 6, to a point of intersection with the north line of an east-west alley, 15 feet wide, in City Block 482E; thence southwestwardly to a point of intersection with the east line of a north-south alley, width varies, in City Block 482E; thence southwardly and along the east line of alley across all intervening streets and alleys to an intersection with the north line of Park Avenue, 80 feet wide, and the northwardly projection of the east line of a north-south alley, 20 feet wide, in City Block 1254; thence southwardly along the northwardly projection of the east line of said alley to a point of intersection with the east line and the south line of an east-west alley, 20 feet wide, in City Block 1254; thence westwardly along the south line of the east-west alley to a point of intersection of the east line of Lot 6, Block 4 of 4th Subdivision of City Common's, in City Block 1254; thence southwardly and along the east line of Lot 6, Block 4 of 4th Subdivision of City Common's in City Block 1254, and crossing Carroll Street, 60 feet wide, and intersecting with the east line of Lot 20, Block 5 of 4th Subdivision of City Common's, in City Block 1254, and crossing Carroll Street, 60 feet wide, and intersecting with the east line of Lot 20, Block 5 of the 4th Subdivision of City Common's, in City Block 1253; thence eastwardly along the north line of alley to a point of intersection with the east line of a north-south alley, 20 feet wide, in City Block 1253; thence southwardly along the east line of north-south alley, to a point of intersection of the east line of said alley and the north line of an east-west alley, 20 feet wide, in City Block 1253; thence eastwardly along the north line of the east-west alley to a point of intersection with the north prolongation of the east line of Lot 4, Block 5, 4th Subdivision of City Common's, in City Block 1253; thence southwardly and along the east line of Lot 4 a distance of 120 feet, more or less, to a point of intersection with the north line of Lafayette Avenue, 120 feet wide; thence across Lafayette Avenue to a point of intersection with the south line of Lafayette Avenue; thence westwardly along the south line of Lafayette Avenue to a point of intersection with the east line of Eighteenth Street, 60 feet wide, said point also being the northwest corner of City Block 821N and also being a point in the north line of the right-of-way of Interstate Highway 44; thence westwardly along the north line of the right-of-way of Interstate Highway 44, across all intervening streets and alleys to its point of intersection with the east line of Jefferson Avenue, 100 feet wide; thence diagonally northwestwardly across Jefferson Avenue to its intersection with the west line of Jefferson Avenue, the point of beginning.
SECTION THREE.
The standards to be applied within the Lafayette Square Historic District, including but not limited to facades, setbacks, height, scale, materials, color and texture, for all structures and the design details of all fences, streets and drives, street furniture, signs and landscape materials, are set out in the "Development Plan for the Lafayette Square Historic District," approved by the Commission of Heritage and Urban Design on ___________ and recorded in the Office of the Recorder of Deeds, a copy of which is attached hereto and marked as Exhibit A, are hereby adopted and incorporated herein by reference. Copies of said standards shall also be filed for inspection in the Office of the Register and in the Office of the Building Commissioner.
SECTION FOUR. SEVERABILITY CLAUSE
If any provision, sentence, clause, section, part, or application of the ordinance and the regulations and standards contained herein is for any reason held to be unconstitutional, illegal, or invalid, such unconstitutionality, illegality, or invalidity shall not affect or impair any of the remaining provisions, sentences, clauses, sections, parts, or applications of this ordinance, regulations and standards.
APPROVED December 16, 1994