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ORDINANCE NO. 1179
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA,
ADOPTING A TEMPORARY INTERIM ZONING
ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 9255.2.8
OF THE ARCADIA MUNICIPAL CODE CONCERNING
REQUIRED PARKING SPACES IN ZONE R-3.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA,
DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. That Section 9255.2.8 of the Arcadia Munici-
pal Code is hereby amended to read as follows:
9255.2.8. PARKING REQUIREMENTS. At least two (2) park-
ing spaces, one of which shall be in a roofed carport or garage,
shall be provided on the same site for each dwelling unit. Each
such parking space shall be located back of the required front yard
and shall be paved with asphaltic or cement concrete. Each such
parking space shall contain a gross area not less than ten (10)
feet wide and twenty (20) feet long, and shall have adequate indi-
vidual access including a turning radius of not less than twenty-
five (25) feet. No portion of a required driveway may be used to
fulfill any such parking space requirements.
SECTION 2. That the City Planning Commission in good
faith has held a hearing and has recommended to this legislative
body the adoption of a zoning amendment increasing the amount of,
parking space required in Zone R-3 under the Zoning Ordinance of
the City as hereinbefore set forth. To protect the public safety,
health and welfare, this legislative body does hereby adopt the
within temporary interim zoning ordinance as an urgency measure
pursuant to Section 65806 of the California Government Code, and
this ordinance shall take effect immediately upon its adoption.
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A statement of the reasons for its urgency is as follows: Staff
studies conducted over a period of time indicate clearly that the
City's off-street parking requirements are considerably inadequate
and that the situation is steadily worsening. That the failure to
anticipate, recognize and deal with the ever growing problem of the
increasing number of vehicles in the City has necessitated the re-
moval of the much-needed ban on all night parking and will make its
re-enactment more difficult, and has added immeasurably to the hazard
of pedestrians who are required in most instances to walk in the
street in multi-family zones and to the hazard of vehicular traffic
by reason of the excessive street parking of vehicles due to inade-
quacy of off-street parking in multiple family areas. That in an-
ticipation of the enactment of legislation increasing the amount of
off-street parking in the multiple family zone, plans for hundreds
of multiple family dwelling units have been hastily drawn or copied
from plans designed for other building sites without any attempt
to adapt the same to the building site now proposed therefor} for
the obvious and sole purpose of obtaining building permits for
multiple family housing without providing the amount of off-st~eet
parking deemed to be necessary. That the issuance of an unseasonal
number of permits for and the construction of an unusual number of
multiple family dwelling units will create an equal number of
buildings soon to become non-conforming, and will greatly and ir-
revocably increase the traffic hazard to both pedestrians and
vehicles from the increased congestion necessarily resulting from
such construction without the provision of sufficient off-street
parking, all to the impairment or jeopardy of the public peace,
health and safety. It is therefore necessary that this ordinance
take effect immediately upon its adoption.
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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 19th day of June, 1962, by the affirmative vote of at least
three Councilmen, to wit:
AYES: Councilmen Balser, Phillips, Reibold and Butte~worth
NOES: Councilman Turner
ABSENT: None
SIGNED AND APPROVED
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Ci Y clerk~ot the ity of Arcadia
this 19th day of June, 1962.
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