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ORDINANCE NO. 1238
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA,
AMENDING CHAPTER 2 OF ARTICLE IX OF
THE ARCADIA MUNICIPAL CODE BY REPEALING
SECTION 9282.1 THEREOF AND AMENDING
SECTIONS 9251.2.1, 9252.2.1, 9253.2.1,
9254.2.1, 9255.2.1, 9261.2.1, 9262.2.1,
9263.2.1, 9264.2.1, 9265.2.1, 9266.2.l~
9267.2.1, 9282.1.1, 9282.1.2 and 9282.1.3
THEREOF, THEREBY REDUCING THE HEIGHT OF
BUILDINGS TO TWO STORIES OR 35 FEET IN
ALL RESIDENTIAL ZONES AND TO THREE STORIES
OR 35 FEET IN ALL COMMERCIAL AND INDUSTRIAL
ZONES EXCEPT BUILDINGS IN ZONE H - SPECIAL
HEIGHT ZONE.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA, DOES
HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. That Section 9282.1 of the Arcadia Municipal
Code is hereby repealed.
SECTION 2. That Sections 9251.2.1, 9252.2.1, 9253.2.1,
9254.2.1, 9255.2.1, 9261.2.1, 9262.2.1, 9263.2.1, 9264.2.1, 9265.2.1,
9266.2.1, 9267.2.1, 9282.1.1, 9282.1.2 and 9282.1.3 of the Arcadia
Municipal Code are hereby amended to read respectively as follows:
9251.2.1. BUILDING HEIGHT., No building hereafter erected,
constructed or established shall exceed two (2) stories or thirty-
five (35) feet in height except as provided in Division 6 of Part 7
or in Division 2 of Part 8 of this Chapter.
9252.2.1. BUILDING HEIGHT. No building hereafter erected,
constructed or established shall exceed two (2) stories or thirty-
five (35) feet in height except as provided in Division 6 of Part 7
or in Division 2 of Part 8 of this Chapter.
9253.2.1. BUILDING HEIGHT. No building hereafter erected,
constructed or established shall exceed two (2) stories or thirty-
five (35) feet in height except as provided in Division 6 of Part 7
or in D1vision 2 of Part 8 of this Chapter.
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9254.2.1. BUILDING HEIGHT. No building hereafter erected,
constructed or established shall exceed two (2) stories or thirty-
five (35) feet in height, and no portion of any building within one
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hundred (100) feet of the front lot line shall exceed one (1) story
in height, except as provided in Division 6 of Part 7 or in Division
2 of Part 8 of this Chapter.
9255.2;1; BUILDING HEIGHT. No building hereafter erected,
constructed or established shall exceed two (2) stories, or thirty-
five (35) feet in height except as provided in Division 6 of Part 7
or in Division 2 of Part 8 of this Chapter. A basement designed or
used to provide only required parking space, laundry rooms, storage
rooms and other incidental purposes other than living quarters, shall
not constitute a story if no portion of the surface of the floor next
above such basement, or if there be no floor above it then if the
ceiling next above it, is more' than two (2) feet above the top of
the street curb at any point adjacent to the lot, or if there be no
curb in the street adjacent thereto, then more than two (2) feet above
the established grade of the center line of the street at any point
adjacent to the lot. Beyond one hundred (100) feet from the front
property line the two (2) feet may be above the approved finished
grade.
9261.2.1. BUILDING HEIGHT. No building hereafter erected,
constructed or established shall exceed three (3) stories or thirty-
five (35) feet in height, except as provided in Division 6 of Part 7
or in Division 2 of Part 8 of this Chapter.
9262.2.1. BUILDING HEIGHT. No building hereafter erected,
constructed or established shall exceed three (3) stories or thirty-
five (35) feet in height, except as provided in Division 6 of Part 7
or in Division 2 of Part 8 of this Chapter.
9263.2.1. BUILDING HEIGHT. No building hereafter erected,
constructed or established shall exceed three (3) stories or thirty-
five (35) feet in height, except as provided in Division 6 of Part 7
or in Division 2 of Part 8 of this Chapter.
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9264.2.1. BUILDING HEIGHT. No building hereafter erected,
constructed or established shall exceed three (3) stories or thirty-
five (35) feet in height, except as provided in Division 6 of Part 7
or in Division 2 of Part 8 of this Chapter.
9265.2.1. BUILDING HEIGHT. No building hereafter erected,
constructed or established shall exceed three (3) stories or thirty-
five (35) feet in,height, except as provided in Division 6 of Part 7
or in Division 20f Part 8 of this Chapter.
9266.2:1. BUILDING HEIGHT. No building hereafter erected,
constructed or established shall exceed three (3) stories or thirty-
five (35) feet in height, except as provided in Division 6 of Part 7
or in Division 2 of Part 8 of this Chapter.
9267.2.1. BUILDING HEIGHT. No building hereafter erected,
constructed or, established shall exceed three (3) stories or thirty-
five (35) feet in height, except as provided in Division 6 of Part 7
or in Division 2 of Part 8 of this Chapter.
9282.1.1. PUBLIC BUILDINGS. Public buildings may be
erected to a height not exceeding four (4) stories or forty-five
(45) feet when the required front, side and rear yards are increased
an additional one (1) foot for each one (1) foot in height such build-
ings exceed thirty-five (35) feet.
9282.1.2. THROUGH LOTS. On through lots one hundred and
fifty (150) feet or less in depth, the height of a building may be
measured from the adjoining sidewalk lev~l on either street. On
through lots more than one hundred and fifty (150) feet in depth,
the height regulations and basis of height measurements for the
street permitting the greater height shall apply to a depth of not
more than one hundred and fifty (150) feet from such street.
9282.1.3. ROOF STRUCTURES. Penthouses or roof structures
for the housing of elevators, stairways, tanks, ventilating fans or
similar equipment required to operate and maintain the buildings, and
fire or parapet walls, skylIghts, towers, roof signs except in the
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c-o and C-l Zones, flagpoles, chimneys, smokestacks, wireless masts
or similar structures may be erected above the height limits herein
prescribed, but no penthouses or roof structures or any space above
the height limit shall be allowed for the purpose of providing addi-
t10nll floor space.
SECTION 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption
of this ordinance and shall cause it to be published once in the
official newspaper.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was adopted
at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Arcadia held
on the 17th day of March
, 1964, by the affirmative vote of at
least three Councilmen, to wit:
AYES: Councilmen Butterworth, Reibold, Turner and
Phillips
NOES: Councilman Balser
ABSENT: None
SrGNEDAND APPROVED this
17th day of March , 1964.
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Mayor of the City 0 Ar'c';;{.G.
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