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O~DINANCE NO~742
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA
AMENDING SECTION 4 OF ORDINANCE No.439 OF SAID CITY OF
ARCADIA, ADOPTED JUNE 28, 1940, AND REPEALING ORDINANCE NO.
634 OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA, ADOPTED MARCH 18, 1947.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA, DOES ORDAIN
AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION I. Section Four of Ordinance No.439 of said City of
Arcadia is hereby amended to read as follows:
"SECTION 4. ZONE R-l SINGLE FAMILY RESIDENCE DISTRICT.
Except as otherwise provided herein no building, structure,
1mprovement, lot or premises shall be used and no building
structure or improvement shall be erected, constructed, established,'
altered or enlarged in Zone R-l which is designed, arranged or in-
tended to be occupied or used for any purpose other than the follow-
lng:
(a) Any use permitted in Zone R-l-A.
(b) A single family dwelling, together with the usual accessories
necessary and incidental to the use of the main building located
on the same lot or parcel of land including a private garage.
(c) Except as hereinafter provided, no single familydwelling
shall be erected, constructed or established on any lot or parcel
of land in Zone R-l having an area less than seven thousand five
hundred (7500) square feet and a width less than seventy five feet (75)~
at the front building line unless said individual lot or parcel of land
is shown as a lot which is part of a subdivision recorded as a final
~p, or filed as a Record of Survey map, in accordance with law, or un-
less the right of possession of a lot or parcel of land having the
required lot area and a minimum width of fifty (~) feet at the front
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building line is vested in a person, firm or corporation by virtue
of deed duly recorded or by a recorded contract of sale at the time
this section became effective.
(d) No lot or parcel of land held under separate ownership at the
time this section became effective shall be separated in ownership
or reduced in size below the minimum lot width or lot area required.
by this section nor shall any lot or parcel of land held under
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separate owne:rship at the time this section became effective and
which has a w:ldth or an area less than that required by this aection
be further reduced in any manner. No portion of a lot, necessary
to provide th'3 required area per dwelling unit, shall be separat-
ed in ownersh:Lp fro. the portion- of the lot upon which the building
containing the dwelling unit or units is located. Provided, how-
ever, that wh'3re building site areas vary frOll! the ainiaUII require-
ments herein provided, it shall be the responsibility of the
Planning Co~Lssion, upon its own .otion 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 rl3CO:llJllend such interpretations to the City Council.
Upon the revil3W by the City Council and the approval thereof by
resolution, sllch adjustment shall thereafter become effective as
it pertains to specific property. J;?roceedings under this paragraph
need not be submitted to public hearing.
(e) No such Ilingle family dwelling or any accessory building
thereto in ZOlle R-l shall be erected to a height greater than one
half of the width of the street upon which the lots front nor shall
such building exceed a height of two and one half stories.
(f) Such portion of such dwelling and its accessory buildings as
are enclosed by walls or otherwise, together shall not cover more
than thirty per centum of the total area of the lot; provided,
however, that where a lot has frontage on more than one street,
forty per centum of the total area may be covered.
(g) Provided., however, that nothing in this Section shall prohibit
the construction of tennis courts, hand ball courts and the
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cus tODJary acc(3ssories thereto.
SECTIOlf 2. Th:Ls Ordinance is urgently required for the preservation
of the pUblic peace, health and safety and the facts constituting such
urgency are aafollows: Numerous applications are pending at the
present time for permission to erect dwellings and other structures
upon parcels of land containing slllB.ll and inadequate areas and the
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erection of such dwellings and other structures will result in an
unhealtlj', unsafe and otherwise undesirable building program and will
seriously injure and injuriously affect the program planned for the
development of the City of Arcadia on a sound, progressive and
modern basis.
SECTION .::.. TOat Ordinance No.634 of the City of Arcadia en-
titled ~An ordinance of the City Council of theCity of Arcadia amend-
ing Section 4 of Ordinance No.439 of said City of Arcadia, adopted
June 28, 1940", adopted March 18, 1947, be and the same is hereby..
repealed.
SECTION ~'. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this
Ordinance and shall cause the same to be published once in the Arcadia
Tribune and Arcadia News, a newspaper published and circulated in said
Ci ty of Arcadill. and thereupon and thereafter, the same shall take
effect and be i,n force.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was adopted at
a re~llar meeting of the City Council of the City of Arcadia held on
the 2lst day of December, 1948, by the affirmative vote of at least
four Councilmen, to wit:
AYES: Cot~cilmen Boucher, Klomp, Libby and Russell
NOES:
ABSENT:
None
Councilman Nugent
SIGNED AND APPROVED this 21st day pf ~ecember, 1948.
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Mayor of the City of Arcadia
ATTEST:
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