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A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY PLANNI
COMMISSION OF THE CITY OF ARCADIA,
CALIFORNIA, RECOMMENDING UPON SPECIFIED
CONDITIONS THE RECLASSIFICATION OF
PROPERTY AT THE NORTHWEST CORNER OF
FOOTHILL BOULEVARD AND SECOND AVENUE
IN SAID CITY TO ZONES C-l AND D
(ARCHITECTURAL OVERLAY).
WHEREAS, there was filed with this Commission on the 7th
day of May, 1965, the application of Herbert M. Piken, Inc. and Hans
Sander, owners and optionees, for a change of zone from R-l, PR-l
and C-2 to Zones C-l and D (ArChitectural Overlay) on property lo-
cated at the northwest corner of Foothill Boulevard and Second Ave-
nue in the City of Arcadia, County of Los Angeles, State of California,
~ more specifically described as follows:
Lots 4 and 5 of Block 90 of Santa Anita Tract, per
map recorded in Book 34, pages 41 and 42, of
Miscellaneous Records of said County;
EXCEPT the westerly 84.62 feet of the northerly 150
feet of said Lot 4;
ALSO EXCEPT the southerly 210 feet of said Lot 4;
ALSO EXCEPT the northerly 125 feet of said Lots 4
and 5;
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WHEREAS, after due notice as required by the Zoning Ordi-
nance of said City, a public hearing was duly held on said applica-
tion by and before this Commission on May 25, 1965, at which time
all interested persons were given a full opportunity to be heard and
to present evidence;
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NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY PLANNING COMMISSION DOES HEREBY
DETERMINE AND RESOLVE AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. That subject property is presently zoned C-2
to a depth of 135 feet and PR-l to a depth of 75 feet. The remain-
ing property is in Zone R-l. That the R-l properties on Sycamore
Avenue from the wash easterly to the west boundary of the former
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~ Foothill Jewish Center property are 375 feet deep and the remaining
lots to the east are 170 feet in depth. That subject property is
located on an arterial highway and the development will be more com-
patible if the present commercial zoning is expanded. That the re-
classification hereinafter recommended is justified by good zoning
practices.
SECTION 2. That for the foregoing reasons, this Commis-
sion recommends to the City Council of the City of Arcadia that the
above-described property be rezoned from Zones R-l, PR-l and C-2 to
Zones C-l and D (Architectural Overlay). That the property be de-
veloped in accordance with Plan "D" submitted by applicants and in
accordance with the regulations presently being considered as appro-
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priate regulations to govern C-l properties as attached hereto.
That in addition, the following conditions shall be applicable under
Zone D (Architectural Overlay):
1. All utilities, including electrical and telephone,
shall be installed underground in a manner meeting with the approval
of the Department of Public Works. Vault space, when required, shall
be provided to meet with the approval of the Department of Public
Works.
2. Any service facilities placed on the roof shall be
screened from view and in a manner approved by the Planning Depart-
ment. In no case shall these appurtenances exceed eight (8) feet
in height.
3. Only one free standing sign identifying the name of
the center shall be permitted, the maximum height of this sign not
to exceed twenty-five (25) feet. All other signs permitted shall
be mounted on the facades of the building and shall pertain only to
the name of the business or the use conducted within the building.
4. Signs shall not project above the roof line of the
building.
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5. No illuminated signs shall be mounted on the east,
west and north wall of the buildings.
6. Complete landscape planting and sprinkler irrigation
plans prepared by a registered Landscape Architect shall be sub-
mitted as part of the working drawing package, such plans to be ap-
proved by the Planning Department.
7. Complete grading and drainage plans showing existing
elevations and existing excavations shall be submitted as part of
the working drawing package, such plans to be approved by the De-
partment of Public Works.
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the approved
year period.
prior to the
Complete working drawings in substantial compliance with
preliminary plot plan shall be submitted within a one-
These plans shall be approved by the Planning Commission
zoning becoming effective.
9. The City Planning Commission shall have the right,
without necessity of further notice of hearing, to make minor modi-
fications of any of the foregoing conditions, if such modification
will achieve substantially the same results and will in no way be
detrimental to adjacent properties or improvements than will the strict
compliance with said conditions.
10. The property shall be used in the manner shown on the
plot plan depicting the development of the area filed with and approved
by the Planning Commission.
11. The northerly driveway presently shown on the aforesaid
Plan "D" shall be totally eliminated or relocated southerly thereof a
distance approved by the Planning Department.
12. All R-l lots north of subject property and abutting
Sycamore Avenue shall be no less than 125 feet in depth.
SECTION 3. The Secretary shall certify to the adoption of
~ this resolution and shall cause a copy hereof to be forwarded 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 8th
day of
June
, 1965, by the following vote:
AYES:
Co~nissioners Ferguson, Parker, Turner and Norton
NOES:
None
ABSENT' Comm'"'on,,. Ran.on ~,Kuyper r" ,
ABSTAINING: Conunissioner Golisch _____' J;/~
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Secretary
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May 11,1965
TO:
PLANNING COMMISSION
FROM:
PLANNING DEPARTMENT
SUBJECT:
PROPOS ED AMENDMENTS TO THE TEXT OF ZONES C-l, C-2 and C-3.
Attached are the recommended additions to the Text of the Zoning Ordinance
for Zones C-l, C-2 and C-3.
These are similar to the regulations which have been ploced as Zone "D",
regulations on various commercially-zoned property throughout the City.
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PLANNING DEPARTMENT
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WILLIAM PHELPS,
Planning Director
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Any exterior signs displayed shall perta in only to the name of the business
or the use conducted within the building.
No one sign shall exceed an area of fifty (50) square feet in Zone C-l,
nor 100 sq. ft. in ZOile C-2 or C-3.
Signs shall not project above the building roof line nor more than ten
(10) inches over publ ic rights-of-way.
The total area of signs on the front of a building in Zo'ne C-l shall
not exceed one (1) sq. ft. of sign area for each lineal ft. of building
frontage.
The total area of signs on the front of a building in Zone C-2 or C";3
shaJ I not e'xceed 2 sq. ft. of sign areo for each one (1), I in. ft. of
property frontage.
The total area of signs on the side or rear of a building shall ,be the
same as permitted on the front of a building.
Signs shall not be permitted B8j~'Ws or util ity poles.
No billboards or attractionlsfia1fbe permitted.
For sale or lease signs shall not exceed four (4) square feet.
When signs are illuminated, such illumination shall come within or
behind the sign.
Signs shall not cause any glare or reflection of I ight on other property
or buildings.
Signs shall be of materials approved by the Division of Building and Safety.
Any sign which lawfully existed and was maintained at the time this
ordinance became effective may be continued al though such structure does
,not confarm to the provisions'set forth in the above rules and regulations
provided that no structural alterations ore added. All such non-conforming
sign's shall be completely removed from the premises not later than three
years from the effective date of this ordinance.
o. No sign shall contain flashing lights or moving parts.
Parking:
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Area Parking Requirements - Provide nat less than three (3) square feet of
off-street parking area for each one (1) square foot of gross floor area of
building being served (Ratio - Parking to G. F. A. equals 3: 1). NOTE: having
satisfied the ratio requirement, four hundred (400)square feet shall be used
as a design computational figure to determine the number of parking spaces
a lot area will facilitate. The four hundred (400) square feet includes access
drives, automabile spaces and incidental uses such as landscaped areas and
unuseabJe corners. This figure is likewise based upon a parking stall size
of not less than nine (9) feet by twenty (20) feet. '
b. Use Parking Reguirement - The following uses, due to their unique traffic
generation characteristics, shall be excepted from the above requirement
and shall provide off-street parking on the follow ing use basis:
USE
PARKING SPACES REQUIRED
, Banks
Restaurant and Bar Facil ities
Offices (Professional & Business)
Offices (Medical & Dental)
8 spaces per each 1 000 sq. ft. of floor area.
1 space per each 50 sq. ft. of floor area.
, 4 spaces per 1000 sq. ft. of floor area.
8 spaces per 1000 sq. ft. of floor area.
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c. Lacatian and Design Factors -
Location of Off-Street Parking - The space for parking facilities shall be
located on the same lot or site, or on a lot or site contiguous thereto, or
within three hundred (300) feet of the building or landuse 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
os long as said building or land use is mointoined.
Setbacks- Off-street parking facilities sholl be permitted in required rear yard
providing that all other parking requirements such as walls, landscaping,
irrigation, etc., are complied with.
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Dimensions for Parking Stalls, Access Aisles, Driveways -
STALL SIZE: Open and covered parking stalls shall be not less than nine (9)
feet wide and twenty (20) feet long.
AISLE WIDTH (0-450): Parking spaces laid at angles through forty-five (45)
degrees to the aisles or driveways shall have a one-way aisle or driveway of
not less than sixteen (16) feet.
AISLE WIDTH (46-600): Parking spaces laid at angles from forty-six (46)
degrees through sixty (60) degrees to the aisle or driveway shall have 0
one-woy aisle or drivewoy width of not less than twenty (20) feet.
AISLE WIDTH (61-900): Parking spoces laid at angles from sixtrone (61)
degrees through ninety (90) degrees to the aisle or driveway shall have an
aisle or driveway width of not less than twenty-five (25) feet.
PARALLEL PARKING: Parallel parking shall have twelve (12) foot minimum
aisles and ten (10) foot by twenty-four (24) foat parking stall sizes.
Circulation - Parking areas having more than one aisle or driveway shall
have painted directional signs provided in each aisle or driveway. Automobile
parking so orranged os to require the moving of any vehicle on the premises in
order to enter or leave any other stall shall be prohibited. Automobile parking
so arranged as to require the backing of motor vehicles onta a major or secondary
highway shall be prohibited.
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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.
Drainage - Drainage of a parking area shall meet th~ opproval of the Department
of Public Works. Drainage into a street shall be by means of a conduit beneath
the parkway.
Marking of Spaces - Each parking space shall be clearly marked with paint
or other easily distinguishable material. Either hairpin or single line marking
will suffice.
Wheel Stops - Wheel stops shall be provided for 011 required parking spaces
and shall be constructed of cancrete.
Landscaping - A minimum of three (3) percent of the interior of a public
'parking area shall have a complete irrigation system; be well maintained in
perpetuity; be reviewable annually by the Building Superintendent of the
City of Arcadia. Required planting areas on the street side of waJ Is sh,all
not be considered as. part of the three (3) percent interior landscaping.
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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 landscaping.
In complying with the three (3) percent landscaping requirement, the planting
beds shall be distributed throughout,the entire parking area as evenly as possible.
,Any plot plan showing the entire three (3) percent landscaping in one or two
large planting beds, or concentrated on only one portion of the parking area,
is not acceptable.
Any unused space resulting from the design of the parking spaces shall be used
for planting purposes. No planting area or island shall have an average width
of less than three (3) feet. The planting areas or islands must be drawn to scale
'and the plants within clearly locoted and labeled. All planting areas or islands
shall be surrounded by a continuous raised concrete curb.
To facilitote the processing of plot plans, a plant list should be prepared giving
the botanical and common names of the plants to be used, the sizes to be planted,
e.g., 1,5, or IS gallon containers, the quantity of each and when applicable,
the spacing sholl be shown. The plants should be listed alphabetically and assigned
key numbers to be used in locating the plants on the plan.
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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 are connected, shall when necessary be protected by
installation of atmospheric or pressure type vacuum breakers. At least one hose
bibb shall be located each one hundred (100) 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.
Loading Requirements - On the same land therewith, every building, structure,
or part thereof, erected or occupied for a permitted Zone C-] ,2 or 3 use involving the
receipt or distribution by vehicles of materials or merchandise incidental to
carrying on such activity sholl be provided 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 (10) feet by twenty-
five (25) feet tor every ten thousand (10,000) feet of floor area or outdoor storage
area with a fourteen (14) foot minimum height clearance, but shall not be a part
of any area required for iJse as off-street parking stalls.
, Additions - Structures which are enlarged in area shall provide parking facilities
per the standards set forth herein.
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Changes in Use - Whenever the existing use of a structure or lot is changed to
another use, parking facilities shall be provided per standards set forth herewith.
Mixed Uses - In the event that two (2) or more uses occupy the same building,
lot, or parcel of lond, the total requirements for off-street parking shall be the
sum of the requirements of the various uses computed separately.
Computation of Required Off-Street Parking Spaces - When 0 fractional figure
is found os a remainder in computations made to determine the amount of required
off-street parking, such fraction shall be construed to be a whole number.
Walls: Except for driveway and other entrances, parking lots shall be properly enclosed
with an ornamental masonry wall as follows:
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a. Adjacent to Residential Zone - Where such' areas front, side, or rear on a
street which is a baundory with 0 residentiol zone, there sholl be a landscaped
border not less than five (5) feet in width on the street side, and a sol id masonry
wall four (4) feet in height shall be erected between the landscaped area and the
paved park ing area.
Where such areas side or rear directly on a residential zone, a sol id masonry
wall six (6) feet in height shall be installed on the zone boundary line, said
wall to be reduced to three (3) feet in height within any corner cutback area
and within the front yard "reo of the abutting residential zones.
Walls adjacent to alleys may be erected on the property line,
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b. Adjacent to Non-Residential Zone - Where such areas front, side, or rear on a
street which is a boundary with a non-residential zone, there shall be a landscaped
border not less than fjve (5) feet in width on the street side, and a solid masonry
wall four (4) feet in height shall be erected between the landscaped area and the
paved parking area.
Community off-street parking lots shall be permitted and the requirements for
walls between separote buildings and uses disposed with provided that a covena')t
in recordable form by its terms to be for the benefit of, enforceable by, and toi~e
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 useable by the tenant and owners of the properties proposed to be served
by such park ing area.
NOTE: Wall heights shall be measured from contiguous properties and in no case shall
such wall height be more than six (6) inches above or below the prescribed height when,
measured from adjacent interior parking lot paving.
Ornomental mosonry walls shall consist of the use of solid wall materials, e.g., brick,
stone, concrete, slump stone, etc., but shall not mean cinder block, fibre block, or
concrete block or similar such materials.
Lighting: Lighting shall be hooded and arranged to reflec: ,:]hr away from adjoining
properties and streets. Light standards shall be a maximum or ren (10) feet in height.
The height of the light stanC:ards shall be measured from the elevation of the adjacent
pavement of the parking lot.
Accessory Structural Items: Towers, chimneys, spires, gables; roof structures, etc.,
sholi not exceed a height of ten (10) feet above the roof of any building and shall be
adequately screened.
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Heating and Air Conditioning Devices: Such devices shall be located within the building
or if mounted elsewhere shall be screened from publ ic view.
Storage: All permanent and temporary storage of ware and merchandise crotes, bottles;
trash, garbage and refuse shall be within the building or screened entirely from public
view by a six (6) ft. high decorative masonry wallar other approved screening devices.
Noise Requirements: The noise level from any activity shall not exceed at any point
on or beyond any property line adjoining a residentially zoned district a maximum level
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NOTICE OF PUBLIC HEARING
Z-65-7
BEFORE THE
ARCADIA CITY PLANNING COMMISSION
WHEREAS, HERBERT M. PI KEN, INC. and HANS SANDER, owners and optionees, of
the property located within the City of Arcodio, Co/iFornia, and hereinafter described have
filed with the Planning Commission of the City of Arcadia, an application requesting a
ZONE CHANGE on the following described property:
Lots 4 and 5 of Block 90 of Santa Anita Tract in the City of Arcadia,
County of Los Angeles, State of Cal iFornia, as per map recorded in
Book 34, pages 41 and 42 of Miscellaneous Records of said County,
except the westerly 84.62 feet of the northerly ISO feet of said
Lot 4 and also except the southerly 210 feet of said Lot 4.
The property is commonly known as 130, 136, 140, ISO, IS4, 160
and 168 East Sycamore Avenue and 141, 143 East Foothill Boulevard.
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The requested Zone Change is to reclassify from Zone R-l, PR-l
and C-2 to Zone C-l and D, on the property described herein. *
NOW, THEREFORE, NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that Tuesday May 2S, 1965, at
8:00 o'clock P.M., in the Council Chamber of the City Hall, 240 West Huntington Drive,
Arcadia, California, the Planning Commission will hold a public hearing and all persons
particularly interested and the public generally will be afforded an opportunity to be
heard on all matters concerning said Zone Change.
PLANNING COMMISSION OF THE
CITY OF ARCADIA, CALIFORNIA
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WILLIAM PHELPS, Planning Secretary
Dated: May 14, 1965.
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* NOTE: Zone "D" provides for Architectural Design Control.
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