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ORDINANCE NO. N$-1548
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA
AMENDING SECTION 34-313 AND 34-317 OF
THE SANTA ANA MUNICIPAL CODE AND ADDING
SECTION 34-313.5 THERETO TO REVISE THE
REQUIREMENTS FOR APPROVAL OF COMMON
OWNERSHIP PROJECTS.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DOES
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1: That Section 34-313 of the Santa
Ana Municipal Code, is amended to read as follows:
Sec. 34-313.
Specific requirements for the
approval of tentative maps.
No tentative map shall be approved unless the
project complies with the following requirements, unless a
waiver is first obtained pursuant to Division 5:
(a)
Unless a higher requirement for off-street
parking spaces is imposed by Chapter 41 of
this Code, all common ownership projects,
including conversion projects, must pro-
vide off-street parking spaces in not less
than the sum of the following:
1.0 space for each bachelor unt.
1.5 spaces for each one-bedroom unit.
1.8 spaces for each two-bedroom unit.
2.0 spaces for each unit with three
(3) more bedrooms.
Of the above-required spaces, not less than
one space per unit shall be covered, as a
garage or a carport. Each parking space
which is to be reserved for the parking of
a resident mut be within two hundered
(200) feet of the dwelling unit of that
resident.
In addition to the above-required spaces,
parking areas designed and located so as to
be readily available for guest parking must
be provided, in not less than the sum of
the following:
0.5 space for each unit through ten (10)
units.
0.2
~pace for each unit in excess of ten
(10) up through one hundred (100)
units.
0.1 space for each unit in excess of one
hundred (100) units.
(b) In addition to clothes, linen and food
pantry closets and shelving customarily
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provided, each unit within the project shall
have at least eighty (80) cubic feet of
enclosed, weatherproof and lockable private
storage place at a single location.
(c) If the storage of boats, trailers,
recreational vehicles and similar
vehicles is to be permitted within
the complex, an area shall be
specifically designated for such
storage and shall be screened from
adjacent areas by a combination of a
six-foot high masonry wall and
appropriate landscaping.
(d) Exposed television antennas for
individual dwelling units shall not
be permitted.
(e) Electric power and gas ~ervices mu~t be sep-
arately metered for each dwelling unit.
(f) Ail utility service lines must be in-
stalled underground.
SECTION 2: That the Santa Ana Municipal Code,
is hereby amended by adding a section, to be numbered 34-
313.5, which said section reads as follows:
Sec. 34-313.5. Private water meters.
Unless separate municipally-owned meters for water
service for each dwelling unit are installed, the following
conditions must be satisfied:
(a)
Common area water usage must be metered
separately from dwelling unit water usage.
Meters providing such separation may be
either municipally-owned or, subject to
the approval of the director of public
works as to type, owned by the associated
owners in common.
(b)
The assessment of each dwelling unit for
that unit's proportion of each water bill
shall be the sum of that unit's share of
aggregate common area usage and that unit's
share of aggregate dwelling unit usage.
The aggregate common area assessment shall
bear the same proportion to the total water
bill as metered common area usage bears to
to total metered project usage, and the
aggregate dwelling unit assessment shall
be the remainder of the water bill.
(c)
Each dwelling unit's share of the aggregate
common area assessment shall be determined
by dividing such aggregate assessment by
the total number of dwelling units.
(d)
Each dwelling unit's share of the ag-
gregate dwelling unit assessment shall
be determined by:
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(1) Dividing the aggregate dwelling unit
assessment by the total number of persons
residing in the project, to obtain a per
capita share;
(2) Multiplying such per capita share by
the number of persons residing in the
dwelling unit.
SECTION 3: That Section 34-317 of the Santa
Ana Municipal Code, is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 34-317. Declaration of covenants,
conditions and restrictions.
No tentative map shall be approved except upon the
condition that a declaration of covenants, conditions, and
restrictions be approved by the planning director and the
city attorney prior to the approval of the final map,
providing for the following:
a)
Perpetual maintenance by the associated
owners, in good, ~anitary and attractive
conditions of all common areas and improve-
ments, including landscaped areas, walls,
driveways, parking areas, trash areas and
buildings, in accordance with plans and
documents on file in the office of the
clerk of the council of the City of Santa
Ana.
b)
Prohibition of the parking or storage of
trailers, boats and recreational vehicles,
except in such area reserved for the
storage thereof as may be provided in the
plans and documents on file with the clerk.
c)
Provision for a system whereby the
homeowner's association shall make
assessments for municipal water billings
among the owners of dwelling units in
the manner prescribed by section 34-313.5,
including:
(1) A statement that the homeowners'
association is liable to the City of Santa
Ana for payment of the municipal water
billings and attendant fees, and that
collection of water assessments on indiv-
idual unit owners is solely the
responsibility of the homeowners'
association;
(2) A method by which the number of
persons residing in each dwelling unit
shall be determined; and
(3) Provision for continuous maintenance
of meters, if any, owned by the associated
owners in common;
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provided, however, that the require-
ments of this paragraph (c) shall not
apply to any project in which each
dwelling unit is served by a water
service connection having its own munic-
ipally-owned water meter.
(d)
As to the above requirements, a power of
enforcement to the City of Santa Ana,
exercisable in the discretion of the
council, and a prohibition against any
relinquishment, amendment, or deletion
of such requirements without the consent
of the council.
The planning director shall consult with the
department of real estate for the purpose of assuring that
the covenants, conditions and restrictions as finally
recorded comply with the requirements of thi~ section.
ADOPTED this ]~th day of
by the following vote:
, 1981,
AYES: COUNCILMEN:
NOES: COUNCILMEN:
Acosta, Griset, Luxembourger,
Markel, McGuigan, Serrato
None
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: Bricken
ATTEST:
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
CITY ATTORNEY