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RESOLUTION NO. 351
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY PLANNING
COMMISSION OF TliE CITY OF ARCADIA,
RECOMMENDING THE AMENDMENT OF
SECTION 7-B OF ORDINANCE NO. 760
OF SAID CITY BY SO DEFINING BASEMENT
PARKING AS TO CONSTITUTE A STORY IN
COMPUTING HEIGHT OF BUILDINGS IN THE
R-3 ZONE UNLESS THE CEILING OF ANY
SUCH BASEMENT BE NOT MORE THAN TWO
FEET ABOVE THE ADJACENT CURB LEVEL.
WHEREAS, pursuant to Section 16 of Ordinance No. 760 of
the City of Arcadia, as amended, the City Planning Commission of
the City of Arcadia did, on August 25, 1959, pass, approve and
adopt its certain Resolution No. 342 entitled "A RESOLUTION OF
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THE CITY PLANNING COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA,
DECLARING ITS INTENTION TO INSTITUTE PROCEEDINGS FOR THE PURPOSE
OF CONSIDERING AND MAKING RECOI-lMENDATIONS CONCERNING THE AMENDMENT
OF ORDINANCE NO. 760 BY AMENDING SECTION 7-B THEREOF AND ANY OTHER
PERTINENT SECTIONS BY DECLARING REQUIRED UNDERGROUND PARKING TO
CONSTITUTE A STORY AS DEFINED BY SAID ORDINANCE", pursuant to which
notice was duly published and given and a public hearing duly held
on the 13th day of October, 1959, which hearing was duly continued
to October 27, 1959, at each of which times all interested persons
were given a full opportunity to be heard and to present evidence
relative to the proposed amendment of Ordinance No. 760 of said
City as provided in said Resolution No. 342; and,
WHEREAS, said Planning Commiss~on has fully reviewed and
considered the subject generally;
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY PLM~NING COMMISSION OF THE CITY
OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA, DOES HEREBY FIND, DETERMINE, RESOLVE AND
RECOMMEND AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. That the public necessity, convenience and
general welfare require, and this Commission hereby recommends to
the City Council of the City of Arcadia, that Subsection B of Sec-
tion 7, lR_3" Multiple-Family Zone, of Ordinance No. 760 of said
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City be amended to read as follows:
"B. BUILDING HEIGHT.
"No building hereafter erected, constructed or estab-
lished shall exceed two (2) stories or thirty-five (35) feet in
height except as provided in Section 15; provided, however, that
any basement designed or used to provide required parking space shall
not constitute a story if no portion of the surface of the floor
next above such basement, or if there be no floor above it then if
the ceiling next above it, is more than two feet above the top of
any curb in the street adjacent thereto, or if there be no curb in
the street adjacent thereto, then more than two feet above the es-
tablished grade of the center line of the street adjacent thereto."
SECTION 2. That if the foregoing recommendation be ac-
cepted by the City Council, surface areas presently required for
the provision of the required parking space will be made available
for additional dwelling unit construction unless the lot area re-
quirements for dwellings in Zone R-3 be further amended; that for
this reason this Commission recommends to the City Council that if
the foregoing recommendation be adopted, the preVious recommenda-
tion of this Commission contained in its Resolution No. 341 should
be modified by adding thereto a recommendation that Subsection F
of Section 7 of Ordinance No. 760 be amended to read as follows:
"F. LOT AREA.
"Every dwelling hereafter erected or structurally altered
shall have a lot area of not less than one thousand eight hundred
(1800) square feet per family; provided that these regulations
shall not apply to hotels or apartment hotels where no cooking is
done in any individual room, suite or apartment."
That Section I of Section 7, recommended to be added to
Ordinance No. 760 by aforesaid Resolution No. 34l, should be aug-
mented to read as follows:
"I. PARKING REQUIREMENTS.
"Notwithstanding any provision of Section l5 to the
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contrary, at least one and one-half (It) parking spaces, of which
... at least one space shall be in a roofed garage or carport, shall
be provided on the same site for each dwelling unit. A full park-
ing space shall be required in each instance where a fractional
parking space would otherwise be required by the terms hereof.
Each such parking space shall be located back of the required front
yard. Each such parking space shall contain an unobstructed area
not less than ten (10) feet wide and twenty (20) feet long, and
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shall have adequate individual access, including not less than
twenty-five (25) feet turning radius; provided, however, that if
two (2) parking spaces be provided on the same site for each dwell-
ing unit, the second parking space for each respective dwelling
unit may be Placed in tandem with the first, provided that each
such pair of parking spaces shall comply with all other require-
ments of this subsection. All parking spaces shall be paved with
asphaltic or cement concrete. A required driveway may not be also
used to fulfill parking space requirements. No detached garage or
carport may be erected in front of the main building if located on
the front half of the lot. If a garage or carport is attached to
and is a part of the main building, not more than thirty-five per-
cent (35%) of the total frontage of the building may be devoted to
garage uses or garage entry purposes."
SECTION 3. The Secretary shall certify to the adoption
of this resolution and shall cause a copy of the same to be for-
warded to the City Council of the City of Arcadia.
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing resolution was adopted
at a regular meeting of the City Planning Commission held on the
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day of November, 1959, by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
Commissioners Acker, Davison, Forman, Norton
and Ifallin
Commissioner Stout
Commissioner r.'lichler
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