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Home My WebLink About1077 ORDINANCE NO. 1077 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 760 OF SAID CITY BY ADDING A NEW SECTION THERETO, SECTION 6.5, "R-3-R" RESTRICTED 11ULTIPLE-FAMILY ZONE. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA, DOES DETERMINE AND ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 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, convenienc:e and general welfare require that Ordinance No. 760 of the City of Arcadia be amended as hereinafter provided. SECTION 2. That said Ordinance No. 760 of the City of Arcadia, entitled "AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING ZONES IN THE CITY OF ARCADIA AND THEHEIN REGULATING THE USE OF LAND: HEIGHT OF BUILDINGS AND YARD SPACES: ADOPTING A MAP SHOWING THE BOUNDARIES OF SAID ZONES: DEFINING THE TERMS USED IN THIS ORDINANCE: PROVIDING 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 by adding a new section thereto, the same to read as fol- lows: SECTION 6.5. "R-3-R" RESTRICTED MULTIPLE-FAMILY ZONE. The following regulations shall apply in the "R-3-R" Re- stricted 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- 1077 1. Any use permitted in the "R-2" Two-Family Zone. 2. Multiple-Family dwellings and group houses, includ- ing bungalow courts, of a permanent character placed in a perma- nent location, of new construction only, averaging not less than one thousand (1000) square feet of floor area per dwelling unit in anyone building, exclusive of porches, garages, entries, patios and basements, with a minimum of six hundred (600) square feet of floor area in anyone dwelling unit; provided, however, that no more than six (6) dwelling units shall be located in anyone build- ing. 3. Accessory buildings and uses customarily incident to any of the above uses, when located on the same lot and not involv- ing the conduct of any other business. 4. 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 occupant. 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 purposes of identification in connection with any lawful use of the premises. 5. Parking Space. Notwithstanding any provision of Sec- tion 15 to the contrary, at least two (2) 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. Each such parking space shall be located back of the required front yard. -2- 1077 Each such parking space shall contain an unobstructed 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 if located on the front half of the lot. If a garage or carport is attached to and is a part of the main building, not more than thirty-five per- cent (35%) of the total frontage of the building may be devoted to garage uses or garage entry purposes. 6. Driveways. Each driveway to a garage or parking space shall be at least ten (10) feet wide, at least nine (9) feet of which width shall be totally unobstructed, other than for eave overhang not to exceed three (3) feet, and paved with asphaltic or cement concrete. If a driveway serves more than twelve (12) re- quired parking spaces, 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, other than for eave overhang not to exceed three (3) feet, and paved with asphaltic or cement concrete. 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, other than for eave overhang not to exceed three (3) feet, and paved with asphal- tic' or cement concrete. 7. Transitional use subject to the following conditions: a. A public parking area where the side of a lot in the "R-3-R" Restricted Multiple-Family Zone abuts upon a lot zoned for commercial or industrial purposes. -3- 1077 b. In no case shall any part of such transitional use be located farther than seventy-five (75) feet from the less restricted zone. B. 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 hundred (100) feet of the front lot line shall exceed one (1) story in height, except as pro- vided in Section 15 hereof. 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 buildings having a front yard different than herein prescribed, the required front yard shall be the average of those having a variation of not more than six (6) feet from the standard front yard herein pre- scribed; provided that where exceptionally deep lots or exception- ally shallow lots prevail, an appropriate special front yard depth established in the manner provided for in Section 16 hereinafter shall govern; provided, however, that if a front yard depth other than that herein prescribed is now or may hereafter be established by Section 15, C Area, Subparagraph 2 of this ordinance, the re- quired 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 ten (10) feet. On corner lots the required side yard adjoining the in- terior lot shall be the same as for interior lots. The required side yard on the street side shall be ten percent (10%) of the width of the lot, but not less than ten (10) feet. -4- 1077 E. REAR YARD. The required rear yard for the dwelling nearest the rear lot line shall be not less than twenty (20) feet and the distance between separate dwellings on the same lot shall be not less than twenty-five (25) feet. F. LOT AREA. There shall be not less than three thousand (3000) square feet of lot area for each dwelling unit. The gross building area shall not exceed thirty-five percent (35%) of the total area of the lot. G. SPECIAL CONDITIONS. Before issuing any permit for any structure in Zone R-3-R, the plot plan and elevation shall first be submitted to and approved by the Planning Commission. In approving the same, the Planning Commission shall require such walls, fences, paved areas, planting areas, setbacks and other conditions as it may deem necessary for the protection of adjacent property or in the interest of the pub- lic welfare, and compliance with all such requirements shall be shown on the final plans submitted to the Building Department prior to issuance of any permit. 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 Tribune and Arcadia News, a newspaper of general cir- culation 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 15th day of March , 1960, by the affirmative vote of at least three Councilmen, to wit: -5- 1077 ATTEST: AYES: Councilmen Balser, Camphouse, Jacobi, Phillips and Reibold NOES: None ABSENT: None ~~~~ City C erk of th~itY of rca ia SIGNED AND APPROVED this 15 day of ~~~,n~~~ Ci Y C er (SEAL) -6- 1077