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ORDINANCE NO. 1180
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA,
PROHIBITING THE ISSUANCE OF BUILDING
PERMITS EXCEPT IN ACCORDANCE WITH
INCREASED OFF~STREET PARKING STANDARDS.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA,
DOES HEREBY DETERMINE AND ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. No building permit shall hereafter be issued
for the construction of any multiple family dwelling unit or units
unless the plans for such multiple family dwelling unit or units
provide for at least two (2) parking spaces per dwelling unit as
provided in Ordinance No. 1178 of the City of Arcadia.
SECTION 2. This ordinance is hereby declared to be neces-
sary as an emergency measure for preserving the public peace, health
and safety and shall take effect immediately upon its adoption. 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 removal 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 pedes-
trians 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 inadequacy of
off-street parking in multiple family areas. That in anticipation
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
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same to the building site now proposed therefor, for the obvious and
sole purpose of obtaining building permits for multiple family hous-
ing without providing the amount of off-street 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 dwell-
ing units will create an equal number of buildings soon to become
non-conforming, and will greatly and irrevocably increase the traf-
fic hazard to both pedestrians and vehicles from the increased con-
gestion necessarily resulting from such construction without the
provision of sufficient off-street parking, all to t~e impairment or
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jeopardy of the public peace, health and safety. It is therefore
necessary that this ordinance take effect immediately upon its adop-
tion. If for any reason it be judicially determined that this ordi-
nance not take effect upon its adoption, it shall take effect thirty
(30) days after its adoption occurring not less than five (5) days
after its introduction.
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 intro-
duced and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the
City of Arcadia held on the 19th day of June, 1962, by the affirma-
tive vote of at least three Councilmen, to wit:
AYES:
Councilmen Balser, Phillips, Reibold, Turner
and Butterworth
None
NOES:
ABSENT: None
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AND APPROVED this 19th day of June, 1962.
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