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RESOLUTION NO. 2812
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA,
GRANTING A VARIANCE TO PEffi4IT
AUTOMOBILE PARKING AT THE REAR OF
1150 "IEST COLORADO STREET.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA, DOES
FIND, DETEffiUNE AND RESOLVE AS FOLLOvlS:
SECTION 1. That there was filed with the City Planning
Commission on June 19, 1956, the application of The Times-Mirror
Company, as o\~er, for a zone variance to permit automobile parking
on the rear portion of the property at 1150 West Colorado Street,
described as a part of Lot 6, Tract No. 949, in connection with
Eaton's Restaurant, and that after notice as required by Ordinance
No. 760, as ~1ended, of the City of Arcadia, a public hearing was
duly held by and before said Commission on the 24th day of July,
1956, which hearing was duly continued to August 14, 1956, at which
times all interested persons were given a full opportunity to be
heard and to present evidence. That upon the conclusion of said
hearings, said Commission adopted its certain Resolution No. 229,
wherein and whereby it made certain findings and recommendations
to this Counc~l. That within ten days after the adoption of said
resolution, a written appeal from said recommendation was filed
with the City Clerk requesting a public hearing before the City
Council on sa~d application. That pursuant to said appeal, after
due notice, a public hearing on said application and the recommen-
dation of the City Planning Commission was held by and before this
Council on the 18th day of September, 1956, at which time all
interested persons were again given an opportunity to be heard and
to present ev~dence.
SEC~ION 2. That although there were numerous written and
oral protests to the granting of said application on the grounds
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of noise and dust and the parking lot lighting system, applicants
agreed to make provision to eliminate the noise and dust nuisance
and to control the lighting system so as to avoid annoyance to the
neighboring residents.
SECTION 3. That subject property and property to the
north and east owned by applicants was originally R-l and that vari-
ances have been granted previously on the property to the north and
east of subject property; that there is a definite need for more
parking facilities for the restaurant adjacent to the north and
that the use of subject property for that purpose under certain
conditions will not be detrimental to the residential property
south and east of subject property but will lessen street parking
and traffic congestion. That there are exceptional circumstances
applicable to the property; that the publiC welfare and convenience
reasonably require the requested variance and upon the conditions
recommended such variance will not be inconsistent with good plan-
ning practice, nor with the prOVisions of the master zoning plan,
nor with the present or prospective development of the neighborhood
in which the property is located.
SECTION 4. That for the foregoing reasons a variance is
hereby granted to The Times-Mirror Company for use as an automobile
parking lot of t~e rear portion of the following described property
in the State of California, County of Los Angeles, to,wit:
That portion of Lot 6, Tract No. 949, as shown
on map recorded in Book 17, page 13, of Maps,
records of Los Angeles County, beginning in the
west line of said Lot 6, distant North 0058'05"
West 105 feet from the northwest corner of Lot
1, Tract No. 17430, as shown on map recorded in
Book 429, pages 30 and 31, of Maps, records of
said County; thence North 0058'05" \-lest 190
feet; thence North 89001155" East 317.87 feet;
thence South 0058'05" East 190 feet; thence
South 89001'55" West 317.87 feet to the point
of beginning,
upon the following conditions:
a. Installation and continued maintenance of a chain link
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fence, six feet in height, with substantial shrubbery plantings, im-
mediately adjacent thereto, conforming to the recommendations of the
City Engineer;
b. Installation of curb and gutter the full length of the
applicant's property on the west side of the property on Michillinda;
c. That no driveway be constructed on the l05-foot strip
south of the parking lot at this time, and in the future any such
driveway shall be constructed only for uses that may lawfully be
conducted upon such 105-foot strip;
d. That vehicular access to the parking area be limited
to ingress and egress to and from Michil1inda Avenue and Colorado
Street; substantially at the locations and in the manner shown on
the revised plot plan submitted by applicant and on file with the
Planning Commission;
e. That the drainage channel through the property be
filled, compacted and paved as soon as practicable, but in no event
later than twelve months after the Michillinda Storm Drain has been
placed in operation, and that the property be drained in a manner
satisfactory to the City Engineer;
f. That the lights in applicant's parking area, both on
the property as to which a variance is hereby granted and on appli-
cant's adjacent property with respect to which a variance was hereto-
fore granted, shall be so installed, altered and maintained as to
direct all light in a general northerly direction and in any event
away from the residential properties to the south of subject prop-
erty;
g. That the remaining 105-foot strip be used solely for
R-l uses, or upon granting of a variance therefor for the construc-
tion of additional bungalow units substantially as in existence on
the remainder 0: applicant's property. That applicant agree that
the granting of the variance as thus recommended shall not serve as
a precedent for or the ground upon which any other or further relief
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from the zoning ordinance may be predicated as to the remaining
l05-foot strip. That applicant further agree that if said l05-foot
strip be sold, or if the property of which it is now a part be sold,
applicant will inform the purchaser of such agreements and of the
terms upon which the variance hereby recommended was granted;
h. That each of the conditions shall be continuing in
nature and the violation of anyone or more thereof shall consti-
tute grounds for the revocation or modification of the variance
hereby recommended.
SECTION 5. The City Clerk shall certifY to the adoption
of this Resolution.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Resolution was adopted
at a regular meeting of the City Council of the City of Arcadia held
on the 2nd
day of Oc tober
, 1956, by the affirmative vote
of at least three councilmen, to wit:
AYES: Councilmen Dennis, Jacobi, Phillips and Reibold
NOES: None
ABSENr: Councilman Camphouse
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SIGNED AND APPROVED this
, 1956.
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ATTEST:
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City Clerk
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