HomeMy WebLinkAboutNS-530ORDINANCE NO. NS-530 ESTABLISHING HEIGHT
LIMITATION ON BUILDINGS OUTSIDE OF THE CENTRAL
AREA OF SANTA ANA FOR INTERIM PERI~D, AS AN
EMERGENCY ORDINANCE A~) DECLARING THE NECESSITY
THEreFOR
WHEREAS, the Planning Department has been conducting studies and has made
a report of preliminary study of the trend to multi-story structure and the effect
of such structures on adjacent properties to the Santa Ana Planning Commission, and
WHEREA~, said Planning Commission has adopted a Resolution urgently recommend-
ing that the City Council adopt an emergency Ordinance to limit the height of
structures in the areas and to the extent herein provided for as a temporary in-
terim Zoning Ordinance to allow time for a more detailed study and determination
of the effect multi-story structures on adjacent properties and on the City ser-
vices in the various areas of the City and to allow time for the holding of
public hearings on the question of structural height regulation.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANADOES ~ADAIN AS
FO~DWS:
S~CTION !: That the City Council finds and declares that there are reports
of multi-story buildings being considered for location in various parts of the
such
City of Santa Aha; that should/buildings be constructed there would or might be
created demands on the water and sewer lines, streets, fire fighting equipment and
personnel and other municipal services that would require changes to maintain the
high standard of services provided by the City and there might be effects on adja-
cent properties that can not be now predicted; that the Planning Commission has
ordered the Planning Department to proceed with a study of the effects of multi-
story buildings to determine demands for services, effects on adjacent properties
and other resulting ~mpact of such structures without delay, to prepare information
and material for said Commission and for the City Council; that to allow the issu-
ance of building permits for such structures at this time might largely defeat the
usefulness
thereon.
of any zoning plan which may result from such study and the hearings
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SECTION 2: That to preserve and protect the public peace, health, safety
and welfare this Ordinance is necessary as an emergency measure as a temporary
interim Zoning Ordinance to prohibit the structures herein defined in the areas
herein set out, and this Ordinance shall take effect and be in force from and
after the date of publication. It is provided, however, that should the provisions
declaring this emergency be held to be invalid for any reason whatsoever, then and
in that event this Ordinance shall nevertheless take effect thirty days from and
after the date of its adoption.
SECTION 3: That the Director of the Department of Building Safety and Housing
shall not issue any building permit and shall not allow the issuance of any build-
ing permit for the construction of any building or any structure of more than two
stories in height or of more than thirty-five feet in height measured from the
average ground level of the building site in any R-3 District, or in any P District,
or in any M-1 District when the building site abuts single family homes; except in
the area bounded on the north by Seventeenth Street, on the east by the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railroad tracks, on the south by First Street and on the west
by Flower Street.
SECTION 4~ The requirements of this Ordinance may be waived and a building
permit issued after application and granting of a Variance under the standard
Variance Procedure provided for in the Santa Aha Municipal Code.
PASSED AND ADOPTED as an emergency Ordinance by the City Council of the City
of Santa Aha at its regular meeting held on the 7th day of AuSU~% , 1961.
ATTEST:
CLERK OF THE COUNCIL
STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS
CITY OF SANTA ANA )
I, MARION SUTTNER, do hereby certify that I am the Clerk of the Council of
the City of Sant~ Aha, California; that the foregoing Ordinance was regularly
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introduced at a Special Meeting of the City Council of Santa Ana called for that
purpose and held on July 27, 1961, and was again considered by said Council at
its regular meeting held on the ?th day of August , 1961, and was at said
meeting regularly passed and adopted by said Council by the following vote, to-wit:
AYES, COUNCILMEN: Royal E. Hubbard, Dale H. Neinly, Bob Brewer, A. A. Hall
NOES, COUNCILMEN: Henry H. Schlueter
ABSENT, COUNCILMEN: None
CLERK-OF TH~ COUNCIL
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