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HomeMy WebLinkAbout6531 RESOLUTION NO. 6531 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA CALLING AND GIVING NOTICE OF THE HOLDING OF A SPECIAL MUNICIPAL ELECTION ON TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 7, 2006, FOR THE SUBMISSION OF A PROPOSED ORDINANCE CONCERNING SIGNS WHEREAS, pursuant to authority provided by statute petitions have been filed with the legislative body of the City of Arcadia, signed by at least fifteen (15%) percent of the number of registered voters of the City to submit a proposed ordinance amending the Arcadia General Plan Regarding Commercial Sign Regulations and Signs in Areas Zoned Mixed Use, Horse Racing, or Special Use; and WHEREAS, the City Clerk examined the records of registration and ascertained that the petition is signed by the requisite number of voters, and has so certified; and WHEREAS, the City Council has not voted in favor of the adoption of the foregoing ordinance; and WHEREAS, the City Council is authorized and directed by statute to submit the proposed ordinance to the voters. NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA, DOES HEREBY, FIND, DETERMINE AND RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS: 1 SECTION 1. Pursuant to the requirements of the Arcadia City Charter, there is called and ordered to be held in the City of Arcadia, California, on Tuesday, November 7, 2006, a Special Municipal Election for the purpose of submitting the following proposed ordinance: Shall the initiative ordinance of the People of Arcadia y amending the Arcadia General Plan to specify a goal of prohibiting signs not commensurate with commercial uses as determined by the Municipal Code (such as off premise advertising sign boards or rooftop signs, or animated signs), N and to restrict signs in the areas zoned as mixed use, horse racing, or special use to sign types specifically permitted in commercial zones, be approved? SECTION 2. The text of the ordinance submitted to the voters IS attached hereto as Exhibit "A". SECTION 3. Approval of this Ordinance shall require a majority vote of the total number of valid ballots cast and counted. SECTION 4. The ballots to be used at the election shall be in form and content as required by law. SECTION 5. The City Clerk is authorized, instructed and directed to procure and furnish any and all official ballots, notices, printed matter and all supplies, equipment and paraphernalia that may be necessary in order to properly and lawfully conduct the election. 2 6531 SECTION 6. The polls shall be open at seven o'clock a.m. of the day of the election and shall remain open continuously from that time until eight o'clock p.m. of the same day when the polls shall be closed. SECTION 7. That in all particulars not recited in this Resolution, the election shall be held and conducted as provided by law for holding municipal elections. SECTION 8. That notice of the time and place of holding the election is given and the City Clerk is authorized, instructed and directed to give further or additional notice of the election, in time, form and manner as required by law. SECTION 9. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Resolution. Passed, approved, and adopted this ,2006. Ma or of the City of Arcadia ATTEST: ~s(~ ity Clerk ~ APPROVED AS TO FORM: ~r.~ City Attorney 3 6531 STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS: CITY OF ARCADIA ) I, JAMES H. BARROWS, City Clerk of the City of Arcadia, hereby certifies that the foregoing Resolution No. 6531 was passed and adopted by the City Council of the City of Arcadia, signed by the Mayor and attested to by the City Clerk at a regular meeting of said Council held on the 18th day of July, 2006 and that said Resolution was adopted by the following vote, to wit: A YES: Council Member Amundson, Harbicht, Segal, Wuo and Chandler NOES: None ABSENT: None ~ sWS ~ City Clerk of the City of Arcadia 4 6531 EXHIBIT A PROPOSED MEASURE 1 The People of the City of Arcadia do ordain as follows: SECTION I. STATEMENT OF FINDINGS The People of the City of Arcadia hereby find and declare the fullowing: A. Arcadia is a picturesque, primarily residential community with features and characteristics long protected by a well planned and effective sign ordinance which has reduced and limited visual blight. B. The Arcadia General Plan requires that future development in Arcadia preserve important community views of the existing race track grandstands so that the grandstands remain recognizable from locations along Huntington Drive, C. Specific plans, zoning changes, and development agreements sought by developers should confonn to the existing sign ordinances of the City in order to maintain the features and characteristics that make Arcadia picturesque. D, Any proliferation in number, size and manner of signs, particularly signs used for outdoor off-premise advertising, unreasonably distracts operators of motor vehicles and promotes confusion with regard to traffic lights, signs, or signals or other interference with the effectiveness of traffic regulations and is therefore hazardous to motorists. 6531 E. Excessive and inadequately controlled proliferation of signs visible from public roads endangers the uniqueness of our community, our scenic beauty, and our mountain sightlines. F. Regulated directional signs offer businesses more effective means of announcing their presence to motorists with far less hann to our scenic beauty and community character. G, The loss of the community's uniqueness, character and scenic beauty will directly hann the City's tourist trade and economy. H. Prohibition of off-premise advertising signs, animated signs, off premise advertising rooftop signs, and billboards is both a necessary and narrowly tailored means to protect the public welfure, including safety on public streets, the preservation of the community's scenic beauty, character and distinctiveness, and the City's economic welfare. SECTION 2. STATEMENT OF PURPOSE A. The purpose of this Act is to promote and protect the public health, safety and welfure by regulating existing and proposed signs of all types within the city in order to assure that they are: (I) Legible in the circumStan::es in which they are seen; (2) Compatible with their surroundings; (3) Appropriate to the type of activity to which they pertain; (4) Expressive of the identity of individual properties or of the community as a whole; and (5) Constructed, altered and repaired according to accepted and approved standards. B. As part of its purpose to promote and protect public health, this Act is designed to promote traffic safety. To advance this interest, the Act includes several provisions regarding the placement of directional signs, and it limits the use of signs which may interfere with traffic safety. C. A second purpose of this Act is to preserve and protect the scenic beauty and distinctive. community character of the City of Arcadia from the blight caused by urrregulated, uncoordinated construction of billboards and signs throughout the municipality. . D. A third purpose of this Act is to protect the economy of the City of Arcadia from the loss of tourist and related revenue that will be caused as the result of urban blight resulting from urrregulated, uncoordinated construction of billboards and signs throughout the municipality. SECTION 3. GENERAL PLAN AMENDMENTS 6531 A. The Arcadia General Plan, Chapter 2.0, Community Development, Section titled General Plan Approach, Subsection titled Community Development Goals beginning on page 2-2 and ending on page 2-3 shall be amended as set forth below to add the following underlined sentence at page 2-3: GENERAL PLAN APPROACH Community Development Goals It is the goal of the City of Arcadia to: direct the amount and location of land uses in a marmer which enhances the envirorunental, social, physical, and economic well-being of Arcadia; defme and preserve the specific attributes which comprise Arcadia's identity as a "Community of Homes" and provides for their long-term-protection; provide housing opportunities for all economic segments of the community; protect the integrity and quality of existing residential neighborhoods; ensure that issues of open space protection, environmental resources, public health and safety, and provision of municipal services and facilities are reflected in the location, U;tensity, style, and quality of development within the City; provide for the retail and Commercial service needs of Arcadia residents; provide appropriate opportunities for employment-generating office and industrial uses in a marmer consistent with the overall character of the community; aRG reserve adequate land for the provision of public and quasi-public services and fucilities for Arcadia residents and businesses; ensure an adequate supply of lands which can generate a municipal revenue stream which furnishes the City with the long-tenn ability to continue providing a high level of services to its residents and businesses: and maintain the community's unique aesthetic and scenic beauty by prohibiting signs that are not commensurate with commercial uses as detennined by the Municipal Code of Arcadia. such as off premise advertising rooftop signs. animated signs, and off-premise advertising sign boards. B. The Arcadia General Pla'n, Chapter 6~0, Implementation and Monitoring, Subsection Development Review and General Plan Consistency, shall be amended to add the following underlined paragraph at the end of the section at Page 6-25: Signage 54, Signaf~e proposed in areas zoned as Mixed Use, Horse Racing, or Special Use under either this General Plan or the Municipal Code shall be limited to sign types specifically oennitted under the Municipal Code in those land use zones designated under the General Plan or the Municipal Code 6531 as "commercial" (e.l!" CoO. C-I. C-2. Co3, CoM. CoCo CPD-I and CBD wnes). All Specific Plans and Development Agreements between the City and any developer shall conform to and be consistent with the Arcadia Mlmicipal Code sign ordinances in effect at the time a Specific Plan or a Development Agreement is adopted. No Specific Plan or Development Agreement may permit a sign unless such sign type is specifically allowed under the Municipal Code within those land use zones designated under the General Plan or the Municipal Code as "commercial" (e.g" CoO. Co!. C-2. C-3. CoM, C-C, . CPD-] and CBD zones). SECTION 4. IMPLEMENTATION OF THIS MEASURE Effective Date: A. This measure shall be effuctive on the day that the vote is declared by the legislative body, and shall go into effect 10 days after that date, pursuant to Elections Code section 9217. However, pursuant to Government Code section 65358, if the General Plan of the City of Arcadia has been previously amended four or more times in the calendar year in which this measure takes effect, the amendments to the General Plan enacted by this measure shall take effect and be the first amendment to the General Plan in the subsequent calendar year. B. Upon the effective date of this measure, the City and its departments, boards, commissions, officers and employees, shall not grant, or by inaction allow to be approved by operation of law, any general plan amendment, zone change, specific plan, tentative or final subdivision map, conditional use permit, building permit, certificate of occupancy, business license or any other ministerial or discretional)' permit or approval which is inconsistent with this measure. Severability: The provisions of this measure are severable, If any provision of this measure or its application is held invalid, that invalidity shall not affect other provisions or applications that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application. No Repeal or Amendment. This measure shall not be amended nor repealed except by a subsequent vote of the voters of the City of Arcadia. . Conflicting Measures A. It is the intent of the People that in the event that this measure and another initiative . measure or measures relating to the same subject shall appear on the same city election ballot, the provisions of the other measure or measures shall be deemed to be in conflict with this measure. In the 6531 event that this measure shall receive a greater nwnber of affinnative votes, the provisions of this measure shall prevail in their entirety, and all provisions of the other measure or measures shall be null and void. B. If this measure is approved by voters but superseded by law or by any other conflicting ballot measure approved by the voters at the same election, and the conflicting law, ballot measure, or interpretation thereof barring this measure from taking effect is later held invalid, this measure shall be self-executing and given full force of law. 6531