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Home My WebLink About0786 ORDINANCE NO. 786. AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA, AMENDING SECTION 4 OF ORDINANCE NO.760 OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA KNOWN AS THE ZONING ORDINANCE. THE CITY COUNC IL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. That Section 4 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 yard spaces; adopting a map showing the boundaries of said zones; defining the terms used in this Ordinance; providing for its adjustment, amendment and enforce- ment; prescribing penalties for violation and repealing ordinances or portions 01f> ordinances in conflict therewith", adopted May 3, 1949, be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: "Section 4.'R-O' First One-Family Zone. The following regulations shall apply in the 'R-O' First One-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. One single-family dwelling of a permanent character, provided that on sites containing fifteen thousand (15,000) square feet or more there may be one additional house without kitchen facilities for guests or servants of the family occupying the single-family dwelling on said lot; private gar- arges, accessory buildings, carport. 2. Agricultural crops, private greenhouses and horticu.ltural collections (grown in the ground); flower and 1. ad. 7~~ vegetable gardens; fruit trees, nut trees; poultry raising, rabbit raising for domestic, non-commercial use, not to exceed one hundred chickens, ten turkeys, ten pigeons, five geese, five ducks, twenty'-five rabbits; not more than two (2) horses for the use of the family occupying the lot on sites having an area of not less than sixteen thousand (16,000) square feet entirely within the boundary lines of a single lot as such lot is shown on the subdivision map recorded in the office of the Recorder of Los Angeles County, provided one (1) additional horse may be kept for each additional five thousand square feet (5,000) over the minimum sixteen thousand (16,000) square feet, and provided . ' further that no more than a total of f~ve (5) horses shall be maintained, provided that the keeping of all poultry, rabbits and domestic animals prOVided for herein shall conform to other pro- visions of law governing same; community buildings and libraries, together with the usual accessories necessary and incidental to the use of the main building located on the same lot or p'arcel of land, when owned and controlled by the City of Arcadia. 3. One (1) unlighted sign not exceeding six (6) square feet in area pertaining only to the sale, lease, or hire of only the particular building property or premises upon which displayed. No other advertising signs, structures or devices of any character shall be permitted in any 'R-O' First one-family Zone. 4. Underground storage of petroleum products for use on the premises. B. Building Height. Two and one-half (2~) stories and not to exceed thirty-five (35) feet except as provided in Sections 15 and 16. C. Front Yard. There shall be a front yard of not less than twenty-five (25%) per cent of the depth of the lot, provided such 2. t/'A,d 7 rd- front yard neEld not exceed thirty (30) feet, except, where sixty (60%) per cent or more of the improved frontage on one side of a street between intersecting streets is 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 prescribed, provided that where exceptionally deep lots or ex- ceptionally shalloVl lots prevail, the Planning Commission may, in the manner provided for considering ~ariances, (Section 16, Part I C) establish an appropriate special front yard depth which, when approved by the City Council, 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, sub-paragraph 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 when one or more dwellings are erected at locations on a lot other than the building sites contiguous to the front yard the required side y~?d for each such building shall be not less than ten (10) feet. On corner lots the required side yard line adjoining the interior lot shall be the same as for interior lots. The required side yard on the street side shall be ten per cent (10%) of the width of the lot, provided it shall not be less than ten (10') feet; and provided further that accessory buildings shall be located not less than fifteen (15) feet from the side street lot line. E. Rear Yard. On lots containing less than fifteen thousand (15,000) square feet there shall be a r ear yard of not less than twenty- five (25%) per cent of the depth of the lot, provided such rear 3. V.A."-'/' 7fi{ yard need not exceed twenty-five (25) feet. On lots having an area of fifteen thousand (15,000) square feet or more, the required rear yard for the dwelling nearest the rear lot line shall not be less than ten (10) feet and the distance between separate dwellings on the same lot shall be not less than thirty-five (35) feet. F. Lot Area Per Family. Every main building hereafter erected, constructed, or established shall be on a lot having a width of not less than eighty (80) feet fronting on a pUblic street. Provided, however, that where a lot has less area than herein required, and was of record prior to June 28, 1940, said lot may be occupied by not more than one family. Where building site areas, other than recorded sub- divided lots, vary from the minimum requirements herein provided, it shall be the responsibility of the Planning Commission, upon its own motion, or by application of a property owner or owners, to ascertain all pertinent facts and to determine what, in the face of such facts, would constitute the greatest adherence to the standards and purposes of this ordinance and to then recommend such interpr,etation to the City Council. Upon the review by the City Council and the approval thereof by resolution, such adjustment shall thereafter become effective as it pertains to specific property. Proceedings under this paragraph need not be submitted to public hearing." SECTION 2. That said Ordinance No. 760 is hereby amended as hereinabove in Section 1 of this ordinance set foryh. SECTION 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this ordinance, and prior to the expiration of fifteen (15) days from pa.ssage ther.eof, shall cause the same to be published 4. (//tJ 7' p,( once in the Arcadia Bulletin, a newspaper of general circulation published and circulated in the City of Arcadia, and thirty (30) days from and after the final passage thereof said ordinance shall take effec t and be in force. I Hh~EBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Arcadia held on the fifteenth day of November, 1949, by the affirmative vote of at least three Councilmen, to wit: AYES: Councilmen Boucher, Klomp, Nugent and Russell NOES: None ABSENT: Councilman Libby R~ ~ . City Clerk of the c~cadia SIGNED AND APPROVED THIS FIFTEENTH DAY OF NOVEMBER, 1949. 7!S/~ ,L~ Mayor of the City of Arcadia ATTEST: ~ L j;,~ City Cl.rk. ae/I 7Ft: