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HomeMy WebLinkAbout3719 RESOLUTION NO. 3719 A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA. CALIFORNIA, DETERMINING AND ESTABLISHING REGULA- TIONS APPLICABLE TO THE REAL PROPERTY IN SAID CITY BOUNDED. ON THE WEST BY. SANTA ANITA AVENUE. .ON THE SOUTH BY HUNTINGTON DRIVE AND ON THE NORTHEAST BY THE ATCHISON. TOPEKA AND SANTA FE RAILWAY RIGHT OF WAY. UPON .ITS ' CLASSIFICATION IN ZONE D (ARCHITECTURAL QVERJ;.AY) . ~O"1 THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA. CALIFORNIA, DOES DETERMINE AND RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS: . . SECTION 1. That the City Council has heretofore determined that the property in the City of Arcadia, bounded on the west by Santa Anita Avenue, on the south by Huntington Drive and on the north- east by the Atchison. Topeka and Santa Fe Railway right of way, should be reclassified and established in Zone C-C (Community Commercial), Zone H (Special Height), and Zone D (Architectural Overlay), and has adopted its Ordinance No. 1260 classifying and establishing said property in Zone C-C (Community Commercial), Zone H (Special Height), and Zone D (ArChitectural Overlay). SECTION 2. In order to promote and insure the purposes, aims, and objectives of the Central Area Plan with respect to the Town Centre, and to foster the harmonious development thereof and to prevent obnoxious, unsightly and undesirable buildings and structures that will be detrimental to properties and improvements in the area as well as to prot~ct the properties in the area and to promote the full and proper utilization thereof, the following restrictions should be and the ~ame hereby are imposed upon the above described property pursuant to Division 2 of Part 7 of Chapter 2 of Article IX of the Arcadia Municipal Code, to wit: -1- 3719 1. PLAN DEVELOPMENT - Plans shall be in substantial com- pliance with a City of Arcadia approved overall Towne Centre development plan. 2. PRELIMINARY PLAN REVIEW - Prior to the issuance of a building permit to alter, construct, or reconstruct any structures, preliminary plans shall be submitted to and approved by the Planning Department. Prelimi- nary plans shall comply with the requirements for pre- liminary plans approved by the Planning Commission and filed with the Planning Department. 3. FINAL PLANS - Working drawings shall be in substantial compliance with the approved preliminary plan and shall be reviewed and approved by the Planning Department. Working drawings shall comply with the requirements on file in the Planning Department. 4.. SIGNS - (A) , SIGN CONTENT - Signs shall contain only subject matter which refers to the name of the estab- lishment or to the goodS and services sold on the premises on which the sign is located. (B) . SIGN SIZE - I. Signs shall not exceed fifty square feet and shall be located entirely within the facade area of occupancy and shall not project above building roof line. II. STREET FRONTAGE: RATIO TO SIGN AREA - A building having a lineal frontage of less than fifty feet be allowed one square foot of sign area for each lineal foot of build- ing frontage. A building having a lineal frontage between fifty feet and one hundred feet may be allowed an additional one square foot of sign ar.ea for each two lineal feet of building frontage. Buildings with lineal frontages in excess of one hundred feet, may have an additional one square foot of sign area for each four feet of frontage. III. FRONTAGE ON TWO STREETS: EFFECT UPON SIGN AREA - Buildings abutting on more than one public street shall be allowed their re- spective quotas of sign area on any two of the streets, prOVided that the areas may_not be cumulated on one street and shall not ex- ceed the allowed area on anyone street. IV. SIGN LOCATION - (a). Signs shall be attached flat against a wall of the building and parallel with its horizontal dimension and shall front the principal street, a parking area in the rear, or, in the case of a corner building, on that portion of the side street wall within fifty feet of the principal street. -2- 3719 When signs are located on the rear of buildings the same regulations shall prevail that govern signs on front of buildings. (b). Signs shall be located no closer than ten feet from other signs ad- vertising the name, goods, or services provided by other establishments, and in no case shall such sign be located closer than five feet to building edge. V. OTHER ADVERTISING - (a). No roof signs, billboards or attraction boards shall be permitted. (b). Banners may be erected on a temporary basis, not exceeding thirty days, in locations approved by the planning Com- mission. (c). No part of any sign shall extend over or above any street, parkway, alley, sidewalk or other public property, ex- cept as herein stated. VI. INTERIOR WINDOW SIGNS - (a). No directly lighted sign in an interior window shall exceed ten percent of the total or aggregate area of signs permitted. (b). No interior window signs shall exceed 15 square feet. Such signs in addition shall not cover more than one-fourth the total window space. VII. SALE, RENT SIGNS - One sign not exceeding four square feet in area for each parcel of property shall be permitted to advertise the lease, rental or sale thereof. VIII. SIGN TYPE - No moving sign or signs having any moving parts shall be permitted. IX. SIGN MATERIALS - No paper, cardboard, cotton, linen and wood fibre signs shall be permitted on building exteriors. All exterior wall signs shall meet with building and fire code regulations. X. METHODS OF SIGN ILLUMINATION ~ (a). No signs with blinking, flashing, travel- ing or moving lights shall be permitted. (b). Illuminated signs shall be designed, con- structed and installed of materials and in such manner as to avoid any glare or re- flection of light on other property or buildings. -3- 3719 XI. CONTINUATION OF SIGNS - Any sign which law- fully existed and was maintained at the time this Resolution became effective may be con- tinued although such structure does not con- form to the provisions set forth in this Reso- lution, provided that no structural alterations are added thereto and that all such non-conform- ing signs shall be completely removed from the premises not later than two years from the effective date of this Resolution. XII. GENERAL REQUIREMENTS - In addition to conform- ing with the above rules, the Building Super- intendent, prior to the issuance of a permit, shall submit all sign plan proposals to the Planning Department for approval. Such plan shall show the size and position of all pro- posed signs on the building and by word de- scription indicate the colors, materials and method of illumination. and identification of company constructing and installing the Sign. 5. PARKING- (A). AREA PARKING REQUIREMENTS - Not less than three square feet of off-street parking area for each one square foot of gross floor area of building being served shall be provided. (Ratio - Parking to G.F.A. equals 3 : 1). Having satisfied the ratio requirement, 400 square feet shall be used as a design computational figure to de- termine the number of parking spaces a lot area will accommodate. The 400 square feet includes access drives, au~omobi1e spaces and incidental uses, such as landscape areas and unusable corners. This figure is likewise based upon a parking stall size of not less than nine feet by twenty feet. (B). USE PARKING REQUIREMENT - The following uses, due to their unique traffic generation characteristics, shall be excepted from the above requirement and shall pro- vide off-street parking on the following use basis: USE Banks & Savings & Loan Associa- tions PKG. SPACES REQUIRED I space per each 200 sq. ft. of floor area Restaurant and Bar Facilities 1 space per each 50 sq. ft. of floor area Hote 1s 1 space per each sleeping unit, plus 1 space for each 3 employees Offices (Professional & Business) 4 spaces per 1,000 sq. ft. of floor area -4- 3719 8 spaces per 1,000 sq. ft. of floor area To be determined by Planning Department at time of plan pre- paration (C). LOCATION OF OFF-STREET PARKING - The space for park- ing facilities shall be located on the same lot or site, or on a lot or site contiguous thereto, or within 400 feet of the building or land use which these facilities will serve. When the required off- street parking facilities are prOVided on a separate lot from the main building or land use there shall be recorded in the office of the County Recorder a covenant to the effect that such owner or owners will continue to maintain such parking space as long as said building or land use is maintained. Offices (Medical & Dental) Public Buildings (D). SETBACKS - Off-street parking facilities shall be permitted in a required rear yard providing that all other parking requirements such as walls, land- scaping, irrigation and the like, are complied with. (E). DIMENSIONS FOR PARKING STALLS - ACCESS AISLES - DRIVEWAYS - I. STALL SIZE - Open and covered parking stalls shall be not less than nine feet wide and twenty feet long. II. AISLE WIDTH (00 - 450) - Parking spaces laid at angles through forty-five degrees to the aisles or driveways shall have a one-way aisle or driveway of not less than sixteen feet. III. AISLE WIDTH (460 - 600) - parking spaces laid out at angles from forty-six degrees through sixty degrees to the aisle or driveway shall have a one-way aisle or driveway width of not less than twenty feet. IV. AISLE WIDTH (610 - 900) - Parking spaces laid out at angles from sixty-one degrees through ninety degrees to the aisle or driveway, shall have an aisle or driveway width of not less than twenty-five feet. V. PARALLEL PARKING - Parallel parking shall have twelve foot minimum aisles and ten foot by twenty-four foot parking stall sizes. (F). CIRCULATION - Parking areas having more than one aisle or driveway shall have painted directional signs provided in each aisle or driveway. No automobile parking shall be so arranged as to require the moving of any vehicle on the premises in order to enter or leave any other stall. -5- 3719 No automobile parking shall be so arranged as to require the backing of motor vehicles onto a major or secondary highway. (G). PAVING - All parking areas shall be paved with a concrete or asphaltic surface to specifications and standards meeting the approval of the Department of Public Works. (H). DRAINAGE - Drainage of a parking area shall meet the approval of the Department of Public Works. Drainage into a street shall be by means of a conduit beneath the parkway. (I). MARKING OF SPACES - Each parking space shall be clearly marked with paint or other easily dis- tinguishable material. Either hairpin or single line marking will suffice. (J). WHEEL STOPS - Wheel stops shall be provided for all required parking spaces and shall be constructed of concrete. (K). WALLS - Except for driveway and other entrances, parking lots shall be properly enclosed with an or- namental masonry wall as follows: ADJACENT TO NON-RESIDENTIAL ZONE - I. Where such areas front, side, or rear on a street which is a boundary with a non-resi- dential zone, there shall be a landscaped border not less than five feet in width on the street side, and a solid masonry wall four feet in height shall be erected between the landscaped area and the paved parking area. II. A wall not less than four and one-half feet in height shall be erected on all property lines not abutting a street. III. Community off-street parking lots shall be permitted and the requirement for walls be- tween separate buildings and uses disposed with provided that a covenant in recordable form by its terms to be for the benefit of, enforceable by, and to be released only by the City, is executed by the owners of all property affected thereby. The covenant shall state that such joint use of such off-street parking shall be usable by the tenant and owners of the properties proposed to be served by such parking area. Wall heights shall be measured from contiguous properties and in no case shall such wall height be more than six inches above or below the prescribed height when measured from ad- Jacent interior parking lot paving. -6- 3719 Ornamental Masonry Walls shall consist of the solid wall materials, such as brick, stone,. concrete and slump stone, but shall not consist of cinder block, fibre block or concrete block or similar such materials. 6. LIGHTING - Lighting shall be hooded and arranged to re- flect light away from adjoining properties and streets. Light standards shall be a maximum of ten feet in height. The height of all light standards shall be measured from the elevation of the adjacent pavement of the parking lot. 7. LANDSCAPING - A minimum of four percent of the interior of a publiC parking area shall be landscaped with plant material and shall have a complete irrigation system; be well maintained in perpetuity; be reviewable annually by the Building Superintendent. Required planting areas on the street side of walls shall not be considered as part of the four percent interior landscaping. Where a parking area abuts the buildings on the subject property, the border plantings adjacent to those buildings shall not be considered as part of the interior land- scaping. In complying with the four percent landscaping require- ment the planting beds shall be distributed throughout the entire parking area as evenly as possible. Any plot plan showing the entire four percent landscaping in one or two large planting beds, or concentrated on only one portion of the parking area, shall not be acceptable. Any unused space resulting from the design of the park- ing spaces shall be used for planting purposes. No planting area or island shall have an average width of less than three feet. The planting areas or islands must be drawn to scale and the plants within clearly lo- cated and labeled. All planting areas or islands shall be surrounded by a continuous raised concrete curb. To facilitate the plot plans, a plant list shall be pre- pared giving the botanical and common names of the plants used, the sizes to be planted, i.e., 1, 5 or 15 gallon containers, the quantity of each and when possible and applicable, the spacing shall be shown. The plants should be listed alphabetically and assigned key numbers to be used in locating the plants on the plan. Except as stated below, it shall be required that the plant material include trees with a ground cover and shrubs beneath. Ground cover alone shall not be accept- able. A combination of ground cover and shrubs are acceptable in places where there is a problem of over- head space for trees; however, wherever possible, trees shall be required. All plant material shall be evergreen. -7- 3719 Plants selected for the design will be checked for suitability in regard to eventual size and spread, susceptibility to diseases and pests, and adaptability to existing soil and climatic conditions. All plant- ing a~eas shall be given a soil sterilization treat- ment with an approved soil sterilizer prior to plant- ing. 8. IRRIGATION - All landscaped areas shall be provided with a permanent, below grade (except for sprinkler heads) irrigation system~ . All domestic water supply lines to which irrigation systems ar.e connected shal1.when necessary, be pro- tected by installation of atmospheric or pressure type vacuum breakers. At least one hose bibb shall be located each one hun- dred lineal feet, starting with one hose bibb at the front. wall. Hose bibbs, wherever possible, shall be located in planting beds. In no case shall hose bibbs be located where they will interfere with pedestrian or vehicular circulation. 9. LOADING REQUIREMENTS - On the same land therewith, every building, structure or part thereof, erected or occu- pied for a permitted Zone CC use involving the receipt or distribution by vehicles of materials or merchandise incidental to carrying on such activity, shall be pro- vided with sufficient space for standing, loading and unloading vehicles to avoid undue interference with the publiC use of streets and alleys. Such space shall be no less than ten feet by twenty-five feet for every ten thousand feet of floor area or outdoor storage area with a fourteen foot minimum height clearance, but shall not be a part of any area required for use as off-street parking stalls. 10. ADDITIONS - Structures which are enlarged in area shall provide parking facilities in accordance with the Zone CC requi~ements. 11. CHANGES IN USE - Whenever the existing use of a structure or lot is changed to another use, parking facilities shall be provided in accordance with Zone CC requirements. 12. MIXED USES - In the event that two or more uses occupy the same building, lot or parcel of land, the total re- quirements for off-street parking shall be the sum of the requirements of the various uses computed separately. 13. COMPUTATION OF REQUIRED OFF-STREET PARKING SPACES - When a fractional figure is found as a remainder in computations made to determine the amount of required off-street park- ing, such fraction shall be construed to be a whole number. 14. MISCELLANEOUS- (A). ROOF EQUIPMENT - All mechanical equipment, if lo- cated on the building roof, shall be screened from publiC view. -8- 3719 (B) . ROOF. STRUCTURES - Towers, - 'chimneys, spires, gables, etc. ,.'sha11 not exceed a height of ten fee~ .above the roof line of any building and shall be screened from publiC view unless de- Signed' as an integral part of the buildings architectural theme. (c). EXTERIOR MATERIALS - All structures to be constructed, reconstructed, altered or re- facaded shall do so in accord with a City of Arcadia approved plan, which shall clearly state the following: COLORS AND MATERIALS OF BUILDING EXTERIORS - Material and color harmony shall be required to provide a pleasing unity. (D). LANDSCAPE PLANTINGS - All plant materials shall be selected to promote a harmony, both build- ings and other landscaped areas. (E). OUTDOOR FURNITURE - Shall be selected and in- stalled in locations providing continuity be- tween outdoor activity areas and buildings. (F). UTILITY LINES - All utilities on the site for direct service to the use thereon shall be installed underground except as otherwise ap- proved by precise plan of design. The owner or developer is responsible for complying with the requirements of this section and shall make the necessary arrangements as required by the serving utility companies for the installa- tion of such facilities. (G). STORAGE - All permanent or temporary storage of w~res and merchandise, crates, bottles, trash, garbage, and refuse shall be within the building. 15. The Planning Commission and City Council shall reserve the right.. to modify without necessity of publiC hearings any of the foregOing conditions, provided such modifi- cation shall not be detrimental to the total development concept. SECTION 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Resolution. .-9- 3719 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 6TH day of OCTOBER , 1964, by the affirmative vote of at least three Councilmen, to wit: AYES: COUNCILMEN BALSER, CONSIDINE, FORMAN, REIBOLD AND TURNER NOES: NONE ABSENT: NONE ~< A~ C . ~ c'/ft: 0 rca ia SIGNED AND APPROVED this 6TH day of' OCTOBER , 1964. May~aj t~a ATTEST: ~a>~ Ci ty Clerk. (SEAL) -10- 3719