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ORDINANCE NO. 900
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AN ORDIN.ANCE OF THE CITY COUNCn. OF THE CITY OF
ARCADIA. CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTIONS 2. 4. 7,.
9. 15 AND 17 OF ORDINANCE NO. 760 OF SAID CITY.
AND ADDING SECTIONS 8.1 AND 8.2 TO SAID ORDINANCE
NO. 760
THE CITY COUNCn. OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA, DOES DETER1lINE
AND ORDAIN AS FOLLll'lS:
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SECTION 1. After public hearings before the City Planning Commission
and the City Council. and upon reviewing and considering all evidence presented
thereat, that the public necessity. convenienoe and general ?mlfare require that
Ordinance No. 760 of the City of Arcadia be amended as hereinafter provided.
SECTION 2. That Seotion 2 of Ordinance No. 760 of the City of
Arcadia. entitled: ~AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING ZONES IN THE CITY OF ARCADIA ~lD
THEREIN REGlJLAT ING THE USE OF LAND: HEIGHT OF BUn.DINGS AND YARD SPACES: ADOPT-
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ING A MAP SHO..IING THE BOUNDA.1UES OF SAID ZONES: DEFINING THE TERMS USED IN THIS
ORDINANCE: PROVIDING FOR ITS ADJUsrMENT, AMENmlENT AND ENFORCEMENT: PRESCRIBING
PENALTlES FOR VIOLATION AND REPEALING ORDINANCES OR PCRTIONS OF ORDINANCES IN
CO~ICT THEREWITH," adopted May 3, 1949. be and'the same is hereby amended to
read as follows:
SECTION 21 DEFINITIONS.
This ordinance which defines and makes effective the Land Use Plan of
the City of Aroadia shall be known as the "Zoning Ordinance" and for the purpose
of this ordinance certain words and terms are defined.
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Words in the present tense include the future; words in the singular
number include the plural; and words in the plural number inolude the singular;
the word "shall" is mandatory. The term "City Counoil" means the City Council
of the City of Arcadia. and the term "Commissicn" cr "Planning Commission"
means the City Planning Commission of the City of Aroadia. The word "City"
when used means the City of Aroadia.
"Aooessory": A building, part of building or structure or use whioh
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is subordinate to, and the use of whioh is inoidental to that of the main
building, struoture or use on the same lot. Where the wall of an aooessory
building is a part of, or joined to, the wall of the main building, such aooes-
sory building shall be oounted as part of the main building.
"Aooessory living quarters": Living quarters within an aooessory
building for the sole use of persons employed on the premises or for temporary
uss by guests of oooupants of premises; suoh quartsrs having no kitohsn faoili-
ties and not rented or otherwise used as a ssparate dwelling.
"Alley": A publio or private way permanently reserved as a seoondary
mem s of aooes s to abutting property.
"Apartment": A room or a suits of two or more rooms in a multiple
dwelling, oooupied or suitable for oooupanoy as a residenoe for one family.
"Apartment Hotel"': A building or portion thereof designed for or
oontaining both individual guest rooms or suite of rooms and dwelling units.
"Apartment House": See "Dwelling, Multiple."
"Automobile Servioe station". A filling station, oontaining not
more than six (6) pumps, one (1) grease raok and one (1) wash raok, to supply
gasoline and oil to motor vehioles and provide minor servioing and sales of
motor vehiole aooessories.
"Automobile \'ireoking"" The dismantling or wreoking of used motor
vehioles or trailers, or the storage, sale or dumping of dismantled or wreoked
vehioles or their parts.
"Basement", A story partly underground and having one-half or more
of its height below the average level of the adjoining ground. A basement, when
designed for, or oooupied by dwellings, business or manufacturing shall be con-
sidered to be a story.
"Boarding House"l A building where lodging and meals are provided for
oompensation for five (5) but not more than fifteen (15) persons, not inoluding
rest homes.
"Building", A permanently located struoture having a roof (all
forms of vehioles exoluded).
"Building Height", The vertioal distanoe measured from the average
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level of the highest and lowest point of that portion of the site oovered by
the building to the ceiling of the uppermost story.
"Building-site"'l The ground area of a building or group of buildings
together with ell open spaces as required by this ordinance.
"Blook"l All property fronting upon one side of a street betv'een
intersecting and intercepting streets, or between a street and right ,of way,
water way, end of dead-end street, or city boundary. An intercepting street
shall determine only the boundary of the block on the side of the street which
it intercepts.
"Bungalow COurt"l A group of four or more detached or semi-det~ched
one-story, one or two-family dwellings located upon a single lot, together with
all open spaces as required by this ordinance oocupying a building site in one
ownership and used for non-transient living accommodations. Two-family dwell-
ings shall mean two units as defined under "Dwelling, Two-Family".
"Business or Ccrmmeroe"l The purohase, sale or other transaotion
involving the handling or disposition of any artiole, substanoe or oommodity for
livelihood or profit, or the ownership or management of offioe buildings,
offices, reoreational or amusement enterprises or the maintenanoe and use of
offioes bU professions and trades rendering servioes.
"Carport"'l An aooessory residential use oonsisting of a reserved spaoe,
roofed or unroofed, and established for the oonvenient loading and unloading
of passengers and for the aooommodation of a passenger oar when not in use.
"Club"l An assooiation of persons for some OOlmIlon non-profit purpose
but not inoluding groups organized primarily to render a servioe whioh ie cus-
tomarily oarried on as a business.
"Convalescent Homes"l See "Rest Homes".
"Dwelling"l A building or portion thereof designed exclusively for
residential purposes, inoluding one-family, two-family and multiple dwellings,
but not inoluding hotels, boarding and lodging houses.
"Dwelling Unit"l One or more rooms in a dwelling or apartment hotel
designed for oocupanoy by one family for living or sleeping purposes, and
having only one (1) kitohen.
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nnwelling, One-family!: A detached building designed exclusively
for oocupancy by one family.
~elling, Two-family~i A building designed exclusively for occu-
pancy by two families living independently of each other.
"Dwelling, Multiple". A building, or portion thereof, designed for
occupancy by three or more families living independently of each other.
~duoational Institutions". Colleges or universities supported
wholly or in part by public funds and other colleges, universities or schools
giving general academic instruction, as determined by the State Board of Educa-
tion.
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"Family": An individual, or t\ro (2) or more persons related by blood
or marriage, ora group of not more than five (5) persons, exoluding servants,
who are not related by blood or marriage, living together as a single house-
keeping unit in a dwelling unit.
"Garage, Private": An aocessory building or an aocessory portion of
the main building, designed or used only for the shelter or storage of vehicles
owned or operated by the occupants of the main building.
"Garage, Publio": A building other than a private garage used for
the care, repair or equipping of automobiles, or where such vehicles are kept
for remuneration, hire or sale.
"Group houses": Two or more separate buildings, each containing one
or more dwelling units.
"Guest Home": See "Rest Homes".
"Guest House", See "Acoessory living quarters".
"Hotel": A building in which there are six or more guest rooms where
lodging with or without meals is provided for compensation as the more or less
temporary abiding plaoe of individuals and where no provision is made for cook-
ing in any individual room or suite. Jails, hospitals, asylums, sanitariums or
orphanages, prisons, detention homes or similar buildings where human beings
are housed and detained under legal restraint are specifically not included.
"Kitchen": Any room used or intended or designed to be used for
cooking or the preparation of food.
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"Loading Spaoe":' An off-street spaoe or berth on the sl1llle lot with
a building, or oontiguous to a group of buildings, for the temporary parking of
a oommeroial vehiole while loading or unloading merohandise or materials.
''Lodging House": A building with not more than five (5) guest rooms
where, for oornpensation, lodging is provided for five (5) but not more than ten
(10) persons.
"Lot": (1) A parcel of real property as shOl'll1 as a delineated paroel
of land with a number or other designation on a plat reoorded in the offioe of
the County Reoorder of Los Angeles County, or (2) an area or paroel of land
used, or oapable of being used for a building with yards or other open spaoes
required by this or other ordinanoes, and provided suoh area or paroel oontains
not less than the presoribed number of square feet required in the zone in
whioh suoh paroel is looated; and provided that eaoh suoh paroel has permanent,
legal aooess to a publio street, and (3) a paroel of land other than suoh
desoribed in Item (1) hereof held under separate ownership prior to the date of
June 1940 and oontaining less than the presoribed minimum arllLand having per-
manent legal aooess to a publio street.
"Lot Area": The total horizontal area within the lot lines of a lot.
"Lot, Corner": A lot situated at the interseotion of two (2) or more
streets, having an ~e of interseotion of not more than one hundred and thirty-
five (135) degrees.
"Lot Depth": The horizontal distanoe between the front and rear lot
lines, measured in the mean direotion of the side lot lines.
"Lot, Interior": A lot other than a oorner lot.
"Lot, Key". The first lot to the rear of a reversed oorner lot and
whether or not separated by an alley.
"Lot, Reversed Corner"': A oorner lot, the side street line of whioh
is substantially a oontinuation of the front lot line of the lot upon whioh it
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"Lot, Through": A lot having frontage on two (2') parallel or approxi-
mately parallel streets.
"Lot Width": The horizontal distanoe between the side lot lines
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measured at right angles to the lot depth e;1; a point midway between the front
and rear lot lines.
"Lot Line, Front"': In the case of an interior lot, a line separating
the lot from the street, and the line separating the narrowest street frontage
of the lot from the street in the case of a corner lot.
"Lot Line, Rear": A lot line which is opposite end most distant from
the front lot line and, in the case of an irregular, triangular or gore-shaped
lot, a line ten (10) feet in length within the lot parallel to and at the maxi-
mum distance from the front lot line.
"Lot Line, Side"'. A:D.y lot boundary line not a front lot line or a
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rear lot line.
"Motel": See "Tourist Court".
"Non-conforming Building", A building or portion thereof lawf'ully
existing at the time this Ordinance or any amendment hereof became effective,
and which was designed, erected or structurally altered for a use which no
longer oonforms to the use zone in which it is located or which no longer com-
plies with all the regulations of the zone in which it is looated.
"Non-conforming Use": A use which lawfully occupied a building or
land at the time this Ordinance or any amendment hereof beoame effective, with
respect to suoh building' or land, and which use no longer conforms with the
use regulations of the zone in which such building or land is located.
"Parking Area, Public": A:D. open area other than a etreet, alley or
place, used for the temporary parking of more than four (4) automobi~ and
available for publio use whether free, for compensation or as an accommodation
for clients or customers.
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"Parking Space, Automobiles": Space within a building or parking
area for the temporary parking or storage of one (1) automobile.
''Place'': A:D. open, unoccupied spaoe other than a street or alley,
permanently reserved as the prinoipal means of aocess to abutting property.
"Rest Home", Same as boarding house, but permitting nursing, dietary
and other personal services rendered to convalesoents, invalids and aged per-
sons, but exoluding cases of contagious or communicable diseases, and excluding
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surgery or primary treatments such as are custcmarily provided in sanitariums
and hospital s.
"Schools, Elementary and High"., An institution of learning which
offers instruction in the several branches of learning and study required to be
taught in the public schools by the Eduoation Code of the State of California.
"Self Service Laundries". Any establishment for laundering where
there is no pick up or delivery service and no steam or hand laundry of any type;
provided, however, that all washing machines and accessory extractors and dryers
shall be installed on a single floor without double decking and there shall be
no intermingling of customers' laundry.
"Stable, Private". A detached accessory building for the keeping of
horseS owned by the occupants of the premisss, and not kept for remuneration,
hire or sale.
"stable. Publ ic". A stable other than a private stable.
"Story". That portion of a building included between the surface of
any floor and the surface of the floor next above it, or if there be no floor
above it, then the spaoe between suoh floor and the ceiling next above it.
"Story, Half". A story with at least two (2) of its opposite sides
situated in a sloping roof, the floor area of which does not exceed two-thirds
(2/3) of the floor area immediately below it.
"street". A public or private thoroughfare which affords principal
means of aoce,ss to abutting property.
"Street, Side": That street bounding a corner lot and which extends
in the general direotion as the line determining the depth of the lot.
"Street Line", The boundary line between the street and abutting prop-
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"Structure". Anything construoted or erected, which requires location
on the ground or attached to something having a location on the ground, but not
including fences or walls used as fences less than six (6) feet in height.
"Struotural Alterations". Jury change in the supporting members of a
building such as bearing walls, columns, beams, floor or roof joists, girders,
or rafters or changes in roof or exterior lines.
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"Super Service Station", An automobile filling station to supply
gasoline, oil and diesel fuel to motor vehicles, and including grease racks or
elevators, wash racks or pits, tire repairs, battery servicing and repairing,
ignition service, sales of motor vehiole aooessories and other customary ser-
vioes for automobiles including major repair, towing service and equipment
rental, but exoluding painting, body work and steam cleaning.
"Tourist Court"., A group of attached or detached buildings oontain-
ing individual sleeping or living unit with garage attached or parking space
conveniently located to each unit, all for the temporary use by automobile
tourists or transients; includes auto courts, motels or motor lodges, but ex-
oludes trailer oamp.
"Trailer, Automobile". A vehicle without motor po~~r, designed to be
drawn by a motor vehicle and to be used for human habitation and for carrying
persons and property, inoluding a trailer coach. Includes also a self-propelled
vehicle having, a body designed for the same uses as an automobile trailer.
"Transient", When used to define living aooommodations shall be
deemed to describe suoh aooommodations when customarily used or furnished for a
period of forty-eight (48) hours or less.
"Use", The purpose for which land or building is arranged, designed
or intended, or for which either is or may be ocoupied or maintained.
"Yard". An open spaoe other than a oourt, on a lot, unocoupied and
unobstruoted from the ground upward.
"Yard, Front". A yard extending across the full width of the lot,
the depth of which is the minimum horizontal distanoe between the front lot line
and a line parallel thereto on the lot.
"Yard, Rear". A yard extending across the full width of the lot be-
tween the main building and the rear lot line; the depth of the required rear
yard shall be measured horizontally from the nearest part of the main building
toward the rear lot line.
"Yard, Side": A yard betvreen the main building and the side lot line,
extending from the front yard or front lot line where no front yard is required
to the rear yard;; the width of the required side yard shall be measured
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horizont&lly from the nearest point of a side lot line toward the nearest part
of a main building.
SECTION 3. That Seotion 4 of said Ordinanoe No. 760 be amended to
re&d as follows~
SECTION h "R-O" FffiST ONE-FAMll.Y ZONE.
The following regulations shall apply in the "F.-o" First One-Family
Zone unless otherwise provided in this Ordinanoe.
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A. USE
No building or land shall be used and no building shell be hereafter,
ereoted, oonstruoted or established, exoept for the following usee.
1. One single-family dwelling of a permanent oharaoter, pro-
vided that on sites oontaining fifteen thousand (16,000) square feet
or more there may be one additional house without kitohen faoilities
for guests or servants of the family oooupying the single-family
dwelling on said lot; private garages, aocessory buildings, oarports.
2. Agricultural orops, private greenhouses and hortioultural
colleotions (grown in the ground); flower and vegetable gardens:
fruit trees, nut trees; the raising or keeping for domestio, non-
oonnneroial use, of not to exoeed a total of ten (10) fowl or birds,
the raising or keeping of Raoing Homing Pigeons under suoh regula-
tions as may be imposed by Ordinanoe, and a total of not to exoeed
five (5) small animals (and the offspring of eaoh ~~ereof until suoh
offspring is oapable, of being raised or maintained separately from
and independently of full grown members of the same speoies): not
more than two (2) horses for the use of the family oooupying 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
suoh lot is shown on the subdivision map recorded in the office of
the Recorder of Los Angeles County, prcvided one (1) additional
horse may be kept for each additional five thousand (5,000) square
feet over the min~um sixteen thousand (16,000) square feet, and pro-
vided further that no more than a total of five (5),horses shall be
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maintained, and provided that the keeping of all poultry, rabbite
and damestio animale provided for herein ehall conform to other pro-
visions of law governing eame; community buildings and librariee,
together with the usual aoceeeoriee neceeeary and incidental to the
use of the main building located on the same lot or parcel of land,
When owned and controlled by the City of Arcadia.
3. One (1) unlighted sign not exceeding six (6) equare feet in
area pertaining only to the s&e, lease, or hire of only the par-
ticular building, property or premises upon which displayed. No
other advertising signs, structures or devices of any oharacter shall
be permitted in any ~-9.' First One-Family Zone.
4. Underground storage of petroleum produots for use on the
premises.
B. BUll-DING HEIGHT
Two and one-half (Z~) stories and not to exoeed thirty-five (35) feet
exoept as provided in Seotions 15 and 16.
C. FRONT YARD
There shall be a front yard of not less than twenty-five, per cent
(25%) of the depth of the lot,' provided such front yard need not exoeed thirty
(30) feet, except where sixty per cent (60%) or more of the improved frontage
on one side of a street between interseoting streets is developed with build-
ings 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 sU: (6)
feet from the standard front yard herein prescribsd~ provided that Where ex-
ceptionally deep lots or, exceptionally shallow lots prevail, an appropriate
speoial front yard depth established in the manner provided for, in Seotion 16
hereinafter shall governl provided, however, that if a front yard depth, other
than that herein prescribed, is now or may hereafter be established by Seotion
15, C. Area, Subparagraph 2 of this Ordinance. the required front yard depths
shall bs as presoribed therein.
D. SIDE YARD
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On interior lots there shall be a side yard on each side of a build-
ing of not less than three (3) feet; provided that when one or more dwellings
are ereoted at locations on a lot other than the building sites oontiguous to
the front yard the required side yard for eaoh suoh building shall be not less'
than ten (10) feet.
On oorner lots the required side yard line adjoining the interior lot
shall be the same as for interior lots. The required side yard on the s~eet
side shall be ten per oent (10%) of the width of the lot. provided it shall be
not less than ten (10) feet.
E. REAR YARD
On :lots oontaining less than fifteen thousand (15.000) square feet
there shall be a rear yard of not less than twenty-five per oent (25%) of the
depth of the :lot. provided suoh rear yard need not exoeed 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 be
not less than ten (10) feet and the distanoe between separate dwellings on the
same lot shal:l be not less than thirty-five (35) feet.
F. Lor AREA PER FAMTI.Y
Every main building hereafter ereoted. oonstruoted. or established
shall be on a lot having a width of not less than eighty (80) feet fronting on
a publio street.
Provided. however. that where a lot has less area than herein re-
quired. and was of reoord prior to June 28. 1940. said lot may be oooupied by
not more than one family.
T!here building site areas. other than reoorded subdivided lots. vary
from the min~um requirements herein provided. it shall be the responsibility
of the Planning Commission. upon its awn motion. or by applioation of a prop-
erty owner or owners. to asoertain all pertinent faots and to determine what.
in the faoe of suoh faots would oonstitute the greatest adherence to the
standard and purposes of this Ordinanoe and to then reoommend suoh interpretation
to the City Counoil. Upon the review by the City Counoil and the approval
thereof by resolution, suoh adjustment shall thereafter beoome effeotive as it
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pertains to speoifio property. Prooeedings under this paragraph need not be
submitted to public hearings.
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SECTION 4. That Seotion 7 of said Ordinanoe No. 760 be amended to
read as follcwss'
SECTION h "R_3" MULTIPLE-FAMJLY ZONE.
The following regulations shall apply in the IR-3"'Multiple-Family
Zone, unless otherwise provided in this Ordinanoe.
A. USE
No building or land shall be used and no building shall be hereafter
ereoted. oonstructed or established except for the following useSI
1. Any use permitted in the "R_2" Two-Family zone.
2. Multiple dwellings.
3. Group houses, inoluding bungalow oourts.
4. Boarding and lodging houses.
5. Private clubs, fraternities, sororities and lodges, exoept-
ing those the ohief aotivity of whioh is a service customarily
oarried on as a business.
6. Aooessory buildings and uses customarily inoident to any of
the above uses, when looated on the sare lot and not involving the
oonduot of a business, inoluding 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 foIl owing oharaoter 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 oocupant.
b. One (1) sign of not to exoeed 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.
o. One (1) sign of not to exceed ten (10) square feet in
area attached to and parallel with the front wall of the
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building for identification purposes for multiple dwellings.
olubs, lodges and similar permitted uses.
8. Parking spaoe (See Section 15).
9. Transitional use subjeot to the following ,oonditions,
a. A public parking area where the side of a,lot in the
"R_3" Multiple-family zone abuts upon a lot zoned for cOllllll8r-
cial or industrial purposes.
b. In no oase shall any part of such transitional use be
located farther than seventy-five (75) feet from the less re-
strioted zone.
B. HEIGHT
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No building hereafter erected, constructed or established shall exceed
two and one-half (~) stories in height or thirty-five (35) feet in height.
c. FRONT YARD
There shall be a front yard of not less than twenty-five per oent
(25%) of the depth, of the lot, provided such front yard need not exceed twenty-
five (25) feet. except where lots comprising sixty per cent (60%) or more of the
tmproved frontage on one side of a street between intersecting streets are de-
veloped with buildings having a front yard different than herein presoribed, 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 exceptionally shallow lots prevail, an appro-
priate speoial front yard depth established in the manner provided for in Seotion
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 required front yard depths
shall be as prescribed therei~.
D. SIDE YARD
On interior lots there shall be a side yard on each side of a building
01' not less than three (3) feet, provided that for buildings higher than two (2)
stories each required side yard shall be increased by one (1) foot for each
story in excess of two (2) stories.
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On corner lots the required side yard &djoining the interior lot
sh&ll be the s&me &s for interior lots. The required side yard on the street
side shall be not less th&n ten (10) feet.
E. REAR YARD
The required rear yard for the dwelling nearest the rear lot line
sh&ll be not less than ten (10) feet and the distanoe between separate dwell-
ings on the same lot shall be not less than fifteen (15) feet. and further
provided th&t the rear yard sh&ll be increased by one foot for eaoh story in
excess of two stories.
F. Lar AREA PER FAlIll.Y
Every dwelling hereafter erected or structurally altered shall have
a lot area of not less th&n seven hundred and fifty (750) square feet per
familYJ provided that these regulaticns shall nct apply to hotels or apartment
hotels where no cooking is done in any individual room. suite or apartment.
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SECTION 5. That said Ordinance No. 760 be amended by adding Section
8.1 "C_O" Profession&! Office Zone and Section 8.2 "e-l" Limited Commercial
Zcne to read as follows:
SECTION 8.ls "C_O" PROFESSIONAL OFFICE ZONE
The following regulations shall apply in the "C-O" Professional Office
tcne unless otherwise provided in this Ordinance.
A. USE
No building or land shall be used and no building shall hereafter be
erectod. constructed or established. except for the following uses:
1. Any use permitted in the "R-3" Multiple-Family Zone.
2. Professional offices for the following uses only:
&. Accountants
b. Architects
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c. Attorneys-at-law
d. Chiropractors
e. Chiropodists
f. Dentists
g. Engineers
h. Insurance Agents
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~. Opticians
j. Optometrists
k. Osteopaths
1. Physioians
m. Real Estate Brokers
n. Surgeons
3. The accessory buildings and uses customarily incident to any
of the above uses when located on the same lot.
Any exterior sign displayed shall pertain only to a use conduoted ,
within the building; shall be attached flat against a wall of the building and
parallel with its horizontal dimens'ion and shall frontthe principal street, a
parking area in the rear, or, in the oase of a oorner building, on that portion
of the side street wall within fifty (50) feet of the principal street. In no
case shall a sign project above the roof line.
B. HEIGHT
No building hereafter erected, constructed or established shall exoeed
four , (4) stories or forty-five (45) feet in height.
C.' FRONT YARD
There shall be a front yard of not less than ten (10) feet.
D. SIDE YARD
No side yard shall be required except that all buildings used exclusively
for dwell tng purposes shall comply with the side yard provisions of the "R-3"
Zone.
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E. REAR YARD
There shall be behind every building a rear yard having' a minimum depth
of twenty (20) feet. Where there is an alley at the rear of the lot, such rear
yard may be measured to the center of said alley.
F. AREA RE~UIREMENTS
There shall be no area requirements except that all buildings used
exclusively for dwelling purposes shall comply with the area provisions of the
"R-3" Zone.
G. PARKING REQUIREMENTS
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For all professional offices the same area of parking space shall be
provided on the same site as there is floor space 'in the office building.
SECTION 8.Z. "C-l" LIMITED COMIJERCIAL ZONE.
The following regulations shall apply in the C-l Limited Commercial
Z'one unless otherwise provided in this Ordinance.
A. USE
No building or land shall be used and no building shall hereafter be
ereoted, constructed or established, exoept for the following uses:
1. 'Any use permitted in the C-O Zone
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2. Automobile parking areas
3. Automobile service stations (except super service stations)
4. Antique stores
5. Banks
6. Barber shops or beauty parlors
7. Bird or pet shops
8. Book or stationery stores
9. Clothes cleaning or pressing establishments (only two
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pressers)
10. Confeotionary stores (including the manufacture of oandy for
sale on the premises provided that no more than five persons >>hall be
employed or engaged in the manufacture of candy on the premises)
11. Dressmaking or millinery shops
12. Drugstores
13. Dry goods or notions stores
14. Ele otric appliance stores and repairs
15. Florist shops
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16. Grooery, fruit or vegetable stores
17. Hardware stores
18. Hotels
19. Interior deoorating stores
20. Jewelry stores
21 . Liqu or stores
22. Meat market or delioatessen stores
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23. Music stores
24. Ilagazine stores
25. Offices, business or professional
26. Paint and wallpaper stores
27. Photographers
28. Public buildings
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29. Radio and television stores
30. Restaurants. tearooms or cafes where all customers are
served at a table or counter (exoluding danoing, entertainment and
sale of intoxicating liquors)
31. Self-service laundries
32. Shoe stores or shoe repair shops
33. Sporting goods stores
34. Te.llor, clothing or wearing apparel shops
35. The aocessory buildings neoessary to suoh uses located on
the same lot or paroel of land, inoluding a storage garage for the
exclusive use of the patrons and employees of the above stores or
businesses.
The above speciBied stores, shops or businesses shall be retail
establishments selling new merchandise exolusively and shall be per-
mitted only under the follOWing oonditionsl
1. Suoh stores, shops or bUsinesses, exoept automobile service
stations shall be oonduoted entirely within an inolosed building of
not to'exoeed five thousand (5000) square feet of floor area.
2. Products made inoidental to a permitted use shall be sold
at retail on the premises.
3. No publio entranoes to suoh stores, shops or businesses
shall be located on the side street of a corner lot nearer than one
hundred (100) feet to property in any "R" zone.
4. ~ exterior sign displayed shall pertain only to a use oon-
duoted within the building; shall be attached to and be parallel .nth
and not more than six (6) inches from the wall of the main building
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or from the front of a marquee fronting the prinoipal street, a park-
ing area in the rear or, in the oase of a oorner building, on that
portion of the side street wall within fifty (50) feet of the prinoi-
pal street. In no oase shall a sign projeot above the roof line.
B. HEIGHT
No building hereafter ereoted. oons~ruoted or established shall exoeed
four (4) stories or forty-five (45) feet in height.
C. FRONT YARD
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No front yard shall be required.
D. SIDE YARD '
No side, yard shall be required exoept that all buildings used exclu.
sively' for dwelling purposes shall oomply with the side yard provisions of the
"R-3' Zone.
E. REAR YARD
There shall be behind every building areal' yard having a minimum
depth of twenty (::0) feet. Where there is an alley' at the rear of the lot, suoh
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rear yard may be measured to the center of said alley.
F. AREA REQUIREMENTS
There shall be no area requirements exoept that all buildings used
exolusively for dwelling purposes shall oomply with the area provisions of the
"R_3" Zone.
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SECTION 6. That Seotion 9 of said Ordinance No. 760 be amended to
read as follows ~
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SECTION 9, "C-2"'GENERAL COMMERCIAL ZONE.
The following regulations shall apply in the "C-2'" General CClIIIIIIeroial
Zone unless otherwise provided in this ordinanoe. Buildings erected, constructed
or established and used exolusively for dwelling purposes shall comply with the
front, side and rear yard regulations of the "R-3" ZONE.
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A. USE.
No building or land shall be used, and no building shall be hereafter
erected, constructed or established except for one or more of the following
uses.
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1. Any use permitted in the C-l Zone.
2. Retail stores or businesses not involving any kind of manu-
facture, prooessing or treatment of products other than that which
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ployed, and not more than fifty per cent (50%) of the floor area of
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the building is used, in the manufacture, prooessing or treatment
of produots, and that such operations or produots are not objeotiona-
ble due to noise, odor, dust, smoke, vibration, or other similar
oauses, and provided also that unless otherwise permitted all such
manufacturing, processing or treatment of produots shall be oon-
duoted inside of buildings.
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3. Advertising sign boards or struotures (subjeot to regula-
tions by other ordinances)
4. Aul;omobile laundries, hand operated only
5. Automobile servioe stations (including super service sta-
tions)
6. Bakeries, employing not more than ten (10) persons on
premises
7. Baths, Turkish md the like
8. Billiard Or pool halls or bowling alleys
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9. Blueprinting and photostating shops
10. Churches, temporary revival
11. Cleaning and pressing establishments using non-inflammable
and non-explosive clea~ng fluid
l~. Conservatories of musio
13. Department stores
14. Electric distributing sub-stations
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16. Employment agencies
16. Feed stores
17. Frozen food locker plants (excluding wholesale processing or
oold storage)
,18. Furniture stores
19. Furniture warehouses for storing personal household goods
20. Garages, publio, including only incidental body and fender
repair
21. Garden supplies
22. Ioe storage houses of not more than five (6) ton capacity
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23. Medical laboratories
2~. Messenger offices
25. Motels, auto courts and tourist courts
26. Music and vocal instruction
27. Newspaper publishing
28. Nurseries, fl ewers or plants
29. Plumbing shops
30. Printing or l1thographiDg shops
31. Restaurants, tea rooms or cafes
"32. Schools, commercial
33. Studios (except motion picture)
3~. Super service stations
35. Taxidermist
38. Telephone exchaDge
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37. Theater.s or auditoriums (except drive-in theaters)
38. Tin6ll1iths
39. Trade sohools (not objeotionable due to noise, odor, dust,
smoke, vibrations or other similar causes)
40. Uphol8teriDg shops
41. . Used car sales areas, provided (a) that no repair or recon-
ditioning of automobiles shall be permitted except when eolosed in a
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building and (b) that suoh area is located and developed as required
in Section 15.
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43. Accessory buildings and uses customarily inoident to any of
the above uses When looated on the same lot
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B. HEIGHT
No building hereafter ereoted, constructed or established shall ex-
ceed four (4) stories or forty-five (45) feet in height.
C. FRONT YARD
No front yard shall be required.
D. SIDE YARD
No side yard shall be required except that all buildings used exolu-
sively for dwelling purposes shall comply with the side yard provisions of the
'n_3" Zone.
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E. REAR YARD
There shall be behind every building a rear yard having a minimum
depth of twenty (20) feet. Where there is an alley at the rear ,of the lot,
such rear yard may be measured to the center of said alley.
, F. AREA REQUIREMENTS
There shall be no area requirements exoept that all buildings used ex-
clusively for dwelling purposes shall comply with the area provisions of the
"R_3" Zo'ne.
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SECTION 7. That Section 15 of said Ordinance No. 760 be amended to
read as followst
SECTION 15t GENERAL PROVISIONS AND EXCEPl'IONS.
A. USE
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1. General ,
Exoept as hereinafter provided, no building shall be erected,
constructed, reoonstructed or established, nor shall any building or
land be used for any purpose other than is permitted in the same zone
in which suoh building or land is located. If any "use" is for any
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reason omitted fram the lists of those specified as permissible in
each of the various zon~s herein designated, or if wnbiguity arises
concerning the appropriate olassification of a partioular use within
the meaning and intent of this Ordinance, or if wnbiguity exists
with reference to matters of height, yard requirements, or area re-
qu1r.ements as set forth herein and as they may pertain to unforseen
oircumstances, it shall be the duty of the City Planning Commission
to asoertain all pertinent facts oonoerning said use and by resolu-
tion of reoord set forth its findings and the reasons therefor, and
suoh findings and resolutions shall be referred to the City Council
and, if approved by the City Council, thereafter suoh interpretation
shall govern.
2. Parking Requirements
a. Area
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Every main building hereafter erected, constructed or estab-
lished shall be provided with minimum off-street parking
acoommodations as follows:
(1) For dwellings 'there shall be at least one and
one-quarter (li) parking spaces on the same site as the main
building:fbr each dwelling unit' and each ,of such parking
spaces shall not be less than eight (8) feet wide by twenty
(20) feet long vnth adequate provision for egress and
ingress. At least one such parking space for each dwelling
unit shall be in a garage or roofed carport. A full park-
ing spaoe shall be required in each instance where a
fractional parking space would otherwise be required by the
terms hereof. Each such parking spaoe shell be located back
of the required front yard.
(2) For buildings other than dwellings there shall be
at least one parking spaoe of two hundred and fifty (260)
square feet on the same lot with the main building or con-
tiguous thereto as follows:
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(a) For Churohes, High Sohools, Colleges and
University Auditoriums and other plaoes of oooasional
assembly, at least one (1) parking space for every
eight (8) seats provided in the main auditorium there-
of.
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(b) For Hospitals snd Institutions, at least one
(1) parking spaoe for every two (2) beds provided 1n
said buil,dings.
(0) For Hotels and Clubs, at least one (1) park-
ing spaoe for every three (3) guest rooms provided in
said buildings.
(d) For Theaters, Auditoriums and other similar
,plaoes of assembly, at least one (1) parking spaoe
for every four (4) seats provided in said building.
(e) For all Office, Commercial and Industrial
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Buildings at least 'one (1) parking spaoe shall be pro-
vided for each five hundred (500) square feet of floor
space or fraotion thereof. Eaoh suoh parking spaoe
shall oontain at least two hundred snd fifty (250)
square feet inoluding adequate space for ingress and
egress, snd shall be on the same lot or within five
hundred (500) feet of the building.
Nothing in this Ordinance shall prohibit the collec-
tive use of spaoe for off-street parking provided such
colleotively used space is equal to the sum of the require-
ments of each individual establishment partioipating in
suoh oolleotive use. \1hen the required off-street parking
space is provided on a separate lot from the main building,
there shall be reoorded in the offioe of the County Reoorder
of Los Angeles County, Cel ifornia, a covenant by the owner
or owners of said lot for the benefit of the City of Aroadia
to the effeot that such owner or owners will oontinue to
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xnaintain suoh parking spaoe so long as said building is
xna1nta ined.
(3) For tourist courts there shall be at least one
(1) parking space for each individual sleeping or living
unit.
b. Improvements
All "'publio" parking areas and "used oar sales areas"
herein permitted shall be improved as follows:
All suoh areas shall be paved with asphaltic or oonorete
surfacing so as to elimina'!;e dust, and mere such parking
areas abut property olassified for "R" uses, it shall be sepa-
rated therefrom by a solid masonry wall six (S) feet in height,
mal ntained in good oondition, provided said wall, from the'
front 'property line to a depth equal to the required front yard
on the abutting "R" olassified property shall be three and one-
half (3~) feet in heightl and provided a fenoe xnay be erected
along the front property line to a height of three and one-half
(3~) feet and provided where no fenoe is ereoted along any boun-
dary of suoh parking area abutting upon a street a suitable oon-
crete ourb or timber barrier not less than six (6) inohes in
height shall be securely installed and maintained.
3. Loading Space
Every main building hereafter ereoted, constructed or established
in any "C" or "M'" Zone, when suoh building is located upon a site oon-
tiguous to a public alley, shall be provided with a minimum off-street
or off-alley loading space as follows:
One (1) loading space for eaoh six thousand (SOOO) square feet
of lot area upon which such building is located) provided, however.
that not more than two (2) such spaces shall be required unless the
building on such lot has a gross floor area 01' forty thousand (40,000)
square feet, in which oase there shall be one additional loading
spaoe for eaoh additional twenty thousand (20,000) square feet in
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excess of forty thcusand (40,000) square feet, cr major fracticn
thereof.
4. Ncn-conforming Buildings and Uses
a. If, prior to June 28, 1940, a one-family dwelling
existed on a lot having an area' of less than fifteen thcusand
(15,000) square feet in Zone "R-l II' and such dwelling is located
sc as tc leave a building site on the front portion of the lot.
including yard spaces as required herein. then a one-family
dwelling may be erected and maintained 'on the front portion of
the same lot in the manner provided herein. Whereupon the said
original dwelling shall assume the status of a non-conforming
use as defined herein.
b. A non-conforming building may be continued. provided
no additions or enlargements are made theretc and no structural
alterations are made ~erein. except those required by law. If
such non-conforming building is removed, every future use of
such premises shall be in conformity with the provisicns of this
Ordinanoe.
o. The non-conforming use of a building may be oontinued,
provideds
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(1) That a non-conforming use of a non-oonforming
building may be expanded or extended throughout such build-
ing. provided no structural alterations except those re-
quired by law are made therein.
(2) That a non-conforming use of a conforming build-
ing shall not be expanded or extended into any other portion
of the conforming ,building. and if such non-conforming use
is discontinued, any future use of such building shall be
in conformity with the provisions of this Ordinance; pro-
vided, however, that all ncn-oonforming uses of a conforming
building shall be discontinued as hereinafter provided.
(3) rhat in all "Rn, Zones, every non-ocnforming build-
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signed or intended for a use not permitted in such ~one,
shall be completely removed or structurally altered to
conform to the uses permitted in such zone, and every non-
oonforming use of a conforming building shall be disoon-
tinued, in each instance within the time fixed by the
Planning Commission and approved by the City Council.
Such ti1ne for the removal or a1 teration of non-conforming
buildings shall not be fixed for a date prior to the ex-
pirBtion of the normal life of such buildiog as deter-
mined in accordance with evidence received by the Planning
Commission or City Counoil. In no event shall the normal
life of such building be fixed at less than ten years from
the date of its original construction. The non-conforming
use of a oonforming building may be ordered disoontinued,
after recommendation by the Planning Commission, at such
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time as the City Council may determine to be equitable,
giving due consideration to suoh factors as the length of
time non-oonforming use has been in existenoe, the time at
whioh and oiroumstanoes under whioh suoh non-conforming use
came into existence, the nature of suoh non-confonning use,
the effect of such non-conforming use upon abutting prop-
erties and the financial investment involved in suoh non-
conforming use.
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All findiogs and determinations made pursuant to this
sub-section shall be made only after notioe to the owner
of the property involved and a public hearing held in the
manner provided for the oonsideration of variances. No
determinations thus made shall require the removal or alter-
ation of a non-conforming building in less than five (6)
years from the tinle suoh determination is made, nor require
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year after suoh determination is made by the City Counoil.
It shall be the duty of the City Clerk to give the owner
affeoted written notioe thereof within ten (10) days after
suoh final determination, and again not less than thirty
(30) nor more than sixty (60) days prior to the date upon
whioh suoh alteration, removal, or disoontinuanoe shall
have bel!l required by suoh determination.
(4) That, subjeot to all other regulations of this
Seotion and other ordinanoes, a building destroyed to the
extent of not more than seventy-five per oent (75%) of its
reasonable vauue by fire, explosion or other casualty or
Act of God, or the publio enemy, may be restored and the
occupancy or use of such building or ];8rt thereof' which
existed at the time of suoh partial destruction may be con-
tinued. NcWithstanding anything in this Ordinance to the
contra.ry, any existing building which becomes non-oonforming
solely by reason of the extension of Ba.ldwin Avenue from
Huntington Drive to Colorado Street, may, after destruotion
to any extent, be restored in substantially the same manner
and location and the occupancy or use of suoh building, or
part thereof, which existed at the time of suoh destruotion,
may be continued.
d. The non-conforming use of land, where no struoture
thereon is employed therefor, may be oontinued for a period of
not more than three (3) years from and after the date suoh use
beoame non-conforming, provided:
(1) That no non-oonforming use of land shall in any
way be expanded or extended either on the same or adjoining
property.
(2) That if the non-oonforming use of land is there-
after discontinued or ohanged, any future use of suoh land
shall be in oonformity with the provisions of this Ordinanoe.
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(3) That the ]a wful location and maintenance of oom-
mercial signs and billboards existing on June 2, 1949, may
be continued, although such use does not oonform with the
provisions hereof; provided, however, that all, such non-
conforming signs and billbouds and their supporting members
shall be oompletely removed by their ONllers not later than
June 2, 1952.
e. The foregoing provisions shall also apply to buildinge:,
land and uses which hereafter beoome non-conforming due to any
reclassifioation of zones under this Ordinance.
f. The term "disoontinue", in any tense or form, as used
in this Section shall be deemed to mean the abandonment of a non-
conforming use. The cessation from the active partioipation in
a non-conforming use for a period in excess of ninety (90) days
shall oonclusively be presumed to constitute the abandonment of
such non-conforming use, unless within suoh period of ninety
'(90) days 'the owner, oocupant,or tenant of the premises upon
whioh suoh non~oonforming use is ,existent, shall file with the
City Clerk a verified declaration containing the following infor-
mation:
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(1) The 18 gal -desoription of the premises upon whioh
the non-oonforming use has existed;
(2) The street address by whioh such premises are
commonly known;
(3) The name md address of the owner, oooupant or
tenant of suoh prlllllisesr
(4) The business or trade name, if any, under which
the non-conforming use is oonduoted.
(5) A statement that the oessation of the non-
conforming use is temporary, the reason for suoh oessation,
and the estimated duration of such cessation.
The City Clerk shall, at the first regular meeting next
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following the filing of suoh deolaration, inform the City Coun-
cil that such declaratinn was so filed. The City Council shall
at suoh meeting approve the deolaration so filed, unless at such
meeting it orders a public hearing to be held for the purpose of
determining the truth, adequaoy or validity of the statements
therein contained.
At any time within the plriod of the estimated duration of'
cessation set forth in suoh declaration, the City Council on its
own motion may. and upon the written request of any interested
person shall order proceedings taken for the purpose of deter-
mining the truth, adequaoy or validity of the statements con-
tained in such declaration.
Suoh proceedings shall be held in substantial oomplianoe
with the provisions of Ordinanoe No. 760 relating to the granting
of varianoes. Any person requesting such proceedings shall be
required to pay suoh fees as are required to be paid by appli-
cants for variances.
The filing of such deolaration shall be prime faoie evi-
denoe of the truth of the statements therein oontained. The
deoision of the City Counoil' upon the oonclusion of suoh proceed-
ings shall be by resolution, and shall be final and conolusive
as to all'matters thereby determined.
B. HEIGHT
1. General
Exoept as hereinafter provided, no building shall ge ereoted.
constructed, reconstructed or established to exceed the height limit
herein established for the zone in which such building is located.
2. Exoeptions
a. One-family dwelli~ in the thirty-five (35) foot height
'gone s may be increased in he ight by not more than ten (10) feet
when two (2) side yards of not less than fifteen (15) feet
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each are provided. Such dwellings, however, ~hall not exceed
three (3) stories in height.
b. In the thirty-five (35) foot height Eones, publio or
semi-publio buildings, schools or institutions may be erected
to a height not exceeding four (4) stories or forty-five (45)
feet When the required front, side and rear yards are inoreased
an additional one (1) foot for each one (1) foot in height such
buildings exceed thirty-five (35) feet.
c. On through lots one hundred and fifty (160) feet or
less in depth, the height of a building may be measured from
the adjoining sidewalk level on either street. On through lots
more than one hundred and fifty (160) feet in depth, the height
regulations and basis of height measurements for the street per-
mi tting the greater height shall apply to a depth of not more than
one hundred and fifty (i50) feet from the street.
d. Penthouses or roof structures for the housing of ele-
vators, stairways, tanks, ventilating fans or similar equipment
required to operate and maintain the buildings, and fire or
parapet walls, skylights, towers, roof' signs except in the "C_O"
and "C_ln. Eones, flagpoles, chimneys, smokestacks, wireless
masts or similar structures may be erected above ~~e height
limits herein prescribed, but no penthouses or roof structures
or any space above the height ,limit shall be allowed for the pur-
pose ?f providing additicnal floor space.
C. AREA
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1. General
Except as hereinafter provided,
a. Except as provided in aforesaid Ordinance No. 860 of the
City of Arcadia, no lot area shall be so reduced or diminlBhed
,that the yards or other open spaces shall be smaller than pre-
scribed by this Ordinm ce nor shell the density of population be
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increased in any manner except in conformity with the regulations
,estaplished herein.
P. No yard or other open spaoe provided around any Puilding
for the purpose of oomplying with the provisions of this Ordi-
nanoe shall Pe oonsidered as providing a yard or open space for
any other puilding; provided further, that no yard or open space
on an adjoining property shall pe considered as providing a yard
or open spaoe on a lot wherein a Puilding is to Pe erected.
c. Every Puilding hereafter ereoted shall pe located on a
lot as herein defined and in no case shall there pe more than
one (1) main Puilding end its accessory puildings on one lot
exoept as herein provided.
d. Every individual parcel of land on June 2, 1949, shall
be deemed to be one lat, and not more than one main puilding
shall Pe permitted on said parcel of land unless all regulations
herein established are complied with or a subdivision traot map
is recorded with the Recorder of Los Angeles County, or a divi-
sion thereof made in aocordance with said Ordinanoe No. 860 of
the City of ~cadia.
e. Every required front, side or rear yard shall be open
and unoPstructed from the ground to the sky, except as otherwise
provided.
f. Ylhere two-family dwellings or multiple-family dwellings
not exceeding two and one-half (2~) stories in height are
arranged so as to rear upon the side yards, the following regu-
lations shall apply:
(1) In the case of group houses or court apartments,
the required side yards upon which suoh dwellings rear shall
be increased by one (1) foot for each entrance or exit open-
ing into or served by such side yard, but shall not exceed
six (6) feet. Open, unenclosed porches not extending above
the level of the first floor may project into the required
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width of such yerd, provided suoh pD~ohes shall not reduce
to less than three (3) feet the unobstructed pedestrian
way or sidewalk on ground level.
(2) In the case of a row of dwellings arranged so as
to rear upcn one side yard and front upon the other, the
side yard upon which such dwellings rear shall be increased
as required above for group houses and the average of the
side yard upon which such dwellings front shall be not less
than one and one-half (l~) times the width of the other side
yard. Open, unenclosed porches not extending above the
level of the first floor may,projeot into the side yard
upon which suoh dwellings front a distance of not more than
twenty per cent (20%) and in no case more than six (6) feet.
(3) All other requirements, including front, side and
rear yards shall be complied with in accordance with the
zone in whioh such group houses or oourt apartments are
locllted.
g. In the "R" Zones no building shall be hereafter erected,
oonstruoted or established or used for a sohool, church, insti-
tution or other similar use pennitted under the use regulations
of this Ordinance, unless such buildings are removed at least
fifteen (15) feet from every boundary line of-a property included
in any '~II Zone, and provided that no front yard IlS required in
the zone, nor any side yard as required above, shall be used for
play or parking purposes.
2. Special Front Yards
If the front yard requirements of this Ordinance differ from those
required by any other ordinance previously enacted and still in effect,
the pro~isions contained in such previously enacted ordinances shall
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3. Exoeptions
a. For the purpose of side yard regulations, the follovring
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dwellings with common party walls shall be considered as one
(1) building occupying one (1) lot; two-, three- and four-
family dwellings and rr1Vl houses not more than two', (2) rooms
deep.
b. Loading spaces as herein required may occupy not more
than fifty per cent (50%) of a required rear yard.
o. The front and side yard requirements for dwellings s.ild
apartments shall be waived where the latter are ereoted above
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stores.
d. An aooessory building may oooupy not more than twenty-
five per oent (25%) of a required rear yard, provided suoh
building is not more than one (1) story in height and looated
at least fifteen (15) feet from the nearest part of a main
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building. No aooessory building over one (1) story in height
shall oooupy any part of a required, rear yard.
On oorner lots an aocessory building shall be looated not
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less than ten (10) feet from the side street line, and not less
than three (3) feet from the rear lot line unless suoh building
is oonstruoted as required by the Building Code of the City of
Aroadia regarding fire resistance. On corner lots an aocessory
portion of a main building shall be nct more than one (1) story
in height and shall be looated not less than ten (10) feet from
the side street line and not less than ten (10) feet from the
rear lot line.
On reverse corner lots an aooessory building shall be
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located not less than fifteen (15) feet from the side street
line, and not less than five (5) feet from th~ rear lot line.
On reverse oorner lots an accessory portion of a main building
shall be not more than one (1) story in height and shall be
located not, less than fifteen (15) feet from the side street
line and not leas than ten (10) feet from the rear lot line.
Private swimming pools may occupy any portion of a lot
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exoept as hereinafter provided and the open portions of such
pool shall be deemed as open and unobstructed area for the pur-
pose of oomputing yard and area requirements.
Private ~ing pools may not be constructed and maintained
in any required front yard, nor within three (3) feet of any side
or rear lot line, nor within ten (10) feet of the property line
on the street side of a corner' lot.'
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e. Through lots one hundred and forty (140) feet or more in
depth may be improved as two (2) separate lots with the dividing
line mid\vay between the street frontages, and each resulting half
shall be subject to the controls applying to the street upon
,Vhich each half faces, except that the required maximum front and
rear yard may each be reduced to ten (10) feet for lots the total
depth of which is less than one hundred and sixty (160) feet, and
provided that if the whole of such through lot is improved as one
building site no accessory building shall be located closer to
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either street than the distance constituting the required front
yard on such street.
f. Cornices, eaves, belt courses, sills, buttresses or
other similar architectural features may extend or project into
a side yard nOD more than two (2) inches for each one (1) foot of
the width of such side yard and may extend or project into a front
or rear yard not more than thirty (30) inches.
g. Fire escapes may extend' or project into any front, side
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or rear yard not more than four (4) feet.
h. Open, unenclosed stairways, or balconies not covered by
a roof, or canopy, may extend or project into a required rear
yard not more than four (4) feet and such balconies and canopies
may extend into a required front yard not more than thirty (30)
inches.
i. Uncovered porches, platforms or landing places whioh do
not extend above the level of the first floor Oe the building,
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may extend into any front, side or rear yard not D;lore than six
(6) feet; provided, however, that an ope~: work railing not more
than thirty l30) inches in height may be installed or construoted
on any such poroh, platform or landing plaoe.
j. Open work fences, hedges, landscape architectural fea-
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tures, or guard railing for safety protection around depressed
ramps, not more than four (4) feet in height, may be located in
any front, side or rear yard.
k. A. fence or wall not more than six (6) feet in height, or
a hedge maintained so as not to exceed six (6) feet in height,
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may be located along the side or rear lot lines, provided suoh
fence, wall cr hedge does not extend into the required front
yard nor into the side yard required along the side street on a
corner lot, which in this oase shall also include that portion
of the rear yard abutting the intersecting street wherein acces-
sory buildings are prohibited, and further provided that the pro-
visions shall not be so interpreted as to prohibit the erection
of a fence enclosing an Elementary or High School site, if such
fence does not project beyond the front line of the building.
1. Trees, shrubs, flowers or plants shall be permitted in
any required front, side or rear yard.
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SECTION 8. That Section 17 of said Ordinanoe No. 760 be amended to
read as follows:
SEctION 171 ~ECIAL USES.
All of the following, and all matters directly related thereto, except
as specifioally permitted in Zone "S-l~ under Seotion 13 hereof, are hereby
declared to be special uses, and authority for the location and operation
thereof shall be granted only under ,the, provisions of and upon complianoes with
the procedure outlined for variances. This declaration is based upon the fact
that,all of the uses herein enumerated possess characteristics of unique and
special forms as to make impractical their being automatically included in any
olasses of use as set forth in the various zones herein defined.
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1. Airpor,ts'
2. Cemeteries
3. Crematories
4. Columbariums
5. Establi shments or
enterprises involving large assemblages of
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people or automobiles including
a. Junusement parks
b. Circuses
c. Fairgrounds
d. Expositions
e. Fairs
f. Exhibits
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g. Automobile shows
h. Pageants
i. Displays
j. Open air 'theaters
k. Race tracks (other than for horse racing, harness horse
racing, and track meets)
1. Recreational centers
m. Hospitals and sanitariums
6. Instituticns of B philanthrcpic or eleemosynary nature
7. Mausoleums, mortuaries and funeral parlors
8. Natural resources, development of, together with necessary build-
ings, apparatus or appurtenances incident thereto
9. Radio or television tranmnitters
10. Riding academies
11. Custom dressing'
"Custom Dressing" as used' in this Section shall mean and be limited to
the dressing of poultry and rabbits for the poultry raisers and shall not mean
slaughtering of poultry and rabbits for delivery to the wholesale trade, such
as chain stores, markets, butcher shops, etc.
Every custom dressing plant as hereinbefore defined, which has been
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in existence and operation for a period of six months prior to November 20,
1952, shall be conclusively presumed to have obtained a special use permit under
and in compliance with the provisions of this Seotion 17, if prior to such
effective date the owner or operator of such dressing plant shall have file d
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with the City Clerk a verified statement containing the following,
1. The name of the owner or operator
2. Address of owner or operator
3. Name of such oustom dressing plant
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4. Address of such plant
5. Legal description of the property upon which suoh plant is looated.
6. A canplete description of the improvemen'lB constituting such plant,
including the size, location and use of such improvements
7. Capaoity or average monthly output of such plant. Such special
use permit shall not permit the enlargement of existing improvements nor increase
of the capacity or output of such plants, but shall not preclude the repair or
modernization of such improvements or the replacement or repair of existing fix-
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tures or facilities.
SECTION 9~ The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Ordi-
nanoe and prior to the expiration of fifteen (15) days from the passage thereof
shall cause the same to be published 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 effect and be in force.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was adopted at a regular
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meeting of the City Council of the City of Arcadia, held on the 7th day of
December , 1954, by the affirmative vote of at least three Councilmen, to-wit:
AYES:
Councilmen Damphouee, Dennie, Dow, Hulee and Phillips
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None
ABSENT,
None
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SIGNED AND APPROVED this 7th day of December . 1954.
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