There is created, pursuant to authority contained in North Carolina General Statutes, primary fire limits to include the principal business portions of the Town which are more particularly identified and described as follows:
Beginning at southeast corner of the intersection of West Vermont Avenue and North Bennett Street; then, along the eastern boundary of North Bennett Street to the corner of South Bennett Street and West New York Avenue; then, along West New York Avenue 200 feet to the middle of the block; then, through the center of the blocks, a line parallel with Bennett and Broad Streets, south to West Wisconsin Avenue; then, along Bennett further south to Morganton Road; then, east on Morganton Road to the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad tracks; then, north along the tracks to where Southeast Broad Street curves with the tracks; then, with Southeast Broad Street as it goes along the southern end of Southern Pines Warehouse property to South Ashe Street; then, north along Ashe Street to the southern boundary of the residence property at the southwest corner of Ashe Street and Illinois Avenue; then, along the southern boundary of the residence property west to the line of the Capri Restaurant property; then, along rear of Capri property north to Illinois Avenue; then, west along Illinois Avenue to the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad tracks; then, along the tracks north 4 blocks to Pennsylvania Avenue; then, east on East Pennsylvania Avenue to the center of the block between Broad Street and Ashe Street; then, north through the center of the blocks from East Pennsylvania Avenue to East Connecticut Avenue; then, north beyond East Connecticut Avenue, 200 feet to the center of the square bounded by Broad Street, Connecticut Avenue, Ashe Street, and Vermont Avenue; then, from the center of the square back west to the Seaboard Coast Line Railroad tracks; then, along the tracks north to Vermont Avenue; then, west along Vermont Avenue to the beginning at the corner of Vermont Avenue and Bennett Street. The primary fire limits comprise that area designated on the fire limits map filed in the office of the Building Inspector of the Town. The map shows the accurate and official description of the fire limits, and to which map reference is hereby made for a more particular description of the limits. Except from the above description Shaw House Property.
(1989 Code, § 150.20) (Ord. passed 7-14-1981)