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Home My WebLink About1075 ORDINANCE NO. 1075 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF ~HE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTION 7 OF ORDINANCE NO. 760 OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA, DOES DETERMINE AND ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTIO~ 1. That after public hearings before the City Planning CommissIon and the City Council, and upon reviewing and considering all evidence presented thereat, that the public neces- sity, convenience and general welfare require that Ordinance No. 760 of the City of Arcadia be amended as hereinafter provided. SECTION 2. That Section 7 of Ordinance No. 760 of the City of Arcadia, entitled "AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING ZONES IN THE CITY OF ARCADIA AND THEREIN REGULATING THE USE OF LAND: HEIGHT OF BUILDINGS AND YAIU) SPACES: ADOPTING A MAP SHOWING THE BOUNDARIES OF SAID ZONES: DEFINING THE TERMS USED IN THIS ORDINANCE: PROVID- ING FOR ITS ADJUSTMENT, AMENDMENT AND ENFORCEMENT: PRESCRIBING PENALTIES FOR VIOLATION AND REPEALING ORDINANCES OR PORTIONS OF ORDINANCES IN CONFLICT THEREWITH," adopted May 3, 1949, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: SECTION 7. lR_3" MULTIPLE-FAMILY ZONE. The following regulations shall apply in the "R-3" Multiple-Family Zone, unless otherwise provided in this ordinance. A. USE. No building or land shall be used and no building shall be hereafter erected, constructed or established, except for the following uses: 1. Any use permitted in the "R_2" Two-Family Zone. 2. Multiple dwellings. -1- 1075 / I' 3. Group houses, including bungalow courts. 4. Boarding and lodging houses. 5. Private clubs, fraternities, sororities and lodges, excepting those the chief activity of which is a service customarily carried on as a business. 6. Acoessory buildings and uses customarily incident to any of the above uses, when located on the same lot and not involv- ing the conduct of a business, including servants' quarters when located not less than seventy (70) feet from the front lot line, or when erected above private garages. 7. Signs of the following character only: a. One (1) unlighted sign of not to exceed one (1) square foot in area attached to and parallel with the front wall of the building, and containing only the name of the occu- pant. b. One (1) sign of not to exceed four (4) square feet in area advertising the premises for sale, lease or rent, located not nearer than ten (10) feet to adjoining premises, nor nearer than five (5) feet to a street line. c. One (1) sign of not to exceed ten (10) square feet in area attached to and parallel with the front wall of the building for identification purposes for multiple dwellings, clubs, lodges and similar permitted uses. 8. Transitional use subject to the following conditions: a. A Public parking area where the side of a lot in the IR-3" Multiple-Family Zone abuts upon a lot zoned for com- mercial or :Lndustria1 purposes. b. In no case shall any part of such transitional use be located farther than seventy-five (75) feet from the less restricted zone. -2- 1075 B. BUILDING HEIGHT. No building hereafter erected, constructed or established shall exceed two (2) stories or thirty-five (35) feet in height ex- cept as provided in Section 15; provided, however, that any base- ment deSigned or used to prOVide required parking space 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 any curb in the street adjacent thereto, then more than two (2) feet above the established grade of the center line of the street adjacent thereto. C. FRONT YARD. There shall be a front yard of not less than twenty-five percent (25%) of the depth of the lot, provided such front yard need not exceed twenty-five (25) feet, except where lots comprising sixty percent (60%) or more of the improved frontage on one side of a street between intersecting streets are developed with build- ings having a front yard different than herein prescribed, the re- quired front yard shall be the average of those having a variation of not more than six (6) feet from the standard front yard herein prescribed; prov:1ded that where exceptionally deep lots or excep- tionally shallow lots prevail, an appropriate special front yard depth established in the manner provided for in Section 16 herein- after shall govern; provided, however, that if a front yard depth other than that herein prescribed is now or may hereafter be estab- lished by Section 15, C Area, Subparagraph 2 of this ordinance, the required front yard depths shall be as prescribed therein. D. SIDE YARD. On interior lots there shall be a side yard on each side of a building of not less than three (3) feet, provided that for buildings higher than two (2) stories each required side yard shall be increasl~d by one (1) foot for each story in excess of two (2) stories. -3- 1075 On corner lots the required side yard adjoining the inte- rior lot shall be the same as for interior lots. The required side yard on the street side shall be not less than ten (10) feet. E. REAR YARD. The required rear yard for the dwelling nearest the rear lot line shall be not less than ten (10) feet and the distance be- tween separate dwellings on the same lot shall be not less than fifteen (15) feet and further provided that the rear yard shall be increased by one (1) foot for each story in excess of two (2) stories. F. LOT AREA. Every dwelling hereafter erected or structurally altered shall have a lot area of not less than fifteen hundred (1500) square feet per family; provided that these regulations shall not apply to hotels or apartment hotels where no cooking is done in any indivi- dual room, suite or apartment. G. FLOOR AREA. Every structure used, designed or intended as a dwelling unit or living quarters shall contain an average of not less than seven hundred fifty (750) square feet of floor area per dwelling unit but no less than six hundred (600) square feet in anyone dwelling unit, exclusive of porches, garages, entries, patios and basements. H. DRIVEWAY REQUIREMENTS. Each driveway to a garage or parking space shall be at least ten (10) f(~et wide, at least nine (9) feet of which width shall be totallY unobstructed at any point vertically above the paved portion thereof, except for eave overhang not to exceed three (3) feet if at least seven (7) feet above the paved drive- way surface, and shall be paved with asphaltic or cement concrete. If a driveway serves more than twelve (12) required parking spaces -4- 1075 or is more than one hundred twenty-five (125) feet long, it shall be at least twenty (20) feet wide, at least eighteen (18) feet of which width shall be totally unobstructed at any point vertically above the paved portion thereof, except for eave overhang not to exceed three (3) feet if at least seven (7) feet above the paved driveway surface, and shall be paved with asphaltic or cement con- crete. In lieu of a twenty-foot wide driveway, two (2) driveways each ten (10) feet wide may be supplied, provided that at least nine (9) feet of the width of each such driveway shall be totally unobstructed at any point vertically above the paved portion thereof, except for eave overhang not to exceed three (3) feet if at least seven (7) feet above the paved driveway surface, and shall be paved with asphaltic or cement concrete. 1. PARKING REQUIREMENTS. Notwithstanding any provision of Section 15 to the con- trary, at least one and one-half (It) parking spaces, of which at least one space shall be in a roofed garage or carport, shall be provided on the same site for each dwelling unit. A full parking space shall be required in each instance where a fractional park- ing space would otherwise be required by the terms hereof. Each such parking space shall be located back of the required front yard. 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 individual access including not less than twenty-five (25) feet turning radius. All parking spaces shall be paved with asphaltic or cement concrete. A required driveway may not be also used to fulfill parking space requirements. No detached garage or carport may be erected in front of the main building on any lot unless such detached garage or carport be erected upon the rear half of such lot. If a garage or carport is attached to and is a part of the main building, not more than thirty-five percent (35%) of the total frontage of the building may be devoted to ga- rage uses or garage entry purposes. -5- 1075 SECTION 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this ordinance and prior to the expiration of fifteen (15) days from the passage thereof, shall cause the same to be published once in the Arcadia 'rribune and Arcadia News, a newspaper of general cir- cu1ation published and circulated in the City of Arcadia. 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 1st. day of March , 1960, by the affirmative vote of at leas~ three Councilmen, to wit: AYES: Councilmen Balser, Camphouse, Jacobi, Phillips and Reibold NOES: None ABSEWr : None ~ ~~ ~ h ' C y ~t~ e C y 0 Arca ia SIGNED AND APPROVED this day of , 1960. ATTEST: &(~ ?i{(?k~~ City Cler (SEAL) -6- 1075 ~