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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 325ORDINANCE NO. X3-2 -5- AN AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF AZUSA PROHIBIT- ING THE ERECTION OF PIORE THAN ONE DWELLING ON A PLOT OF GROUND WITH FRONTAGE OF NOT MORE THAN 50 F- ET OR DEPTI? OF NOT IaTORE THAN 150 FEET; PROiIBITING THE ERECTION OF MORE THAN ONE DWELLING ON A PLOT OF GROUND WITH FRONTAGE OF MORE THAN 50 FEET OR DEPTH OF I4ORE THAN 150 FEET EXCEPT ON PER?SiIT OF CITY COUNCIL RECOi:"iENDED BY BUILDI4,;G INSPECTOR AND CITY PLANNING CO111'.ISSION; PROHIBITING THE ERECTION OF A DWELLING WHEN THERE IS ALREADY A DWELLING STANDING ON THE SAIM PLOT OF GROUND 11'`= EXCEPTIONS AS TO LOTS BOUNDED BY TWO OR D'iORE STREETS, AND COURTS, UPON PER - HIT GRANTED BY CITY COUNCIL RECOIJ9,2NDED BY BUILDING INSPECTOR AND CITY PLANNING COP,MIS- SION; DEFINING TERI118 AND FIXING PENALTIES. The City Council of the City of Azusa. does ordain as follovs:- Section 1: Unless it', is apparent from the context that another meaning is intended, the following words When used in this ordinance shall, lave the meaning attached to them by this Section: - A. Whenever the words "person" or "person or Dersons° appear in this ordinance, same shall be construed to in- clude a natural person or natural persons, co-partnershjps , associations, firms, corporations, companies or societies. B. All words in the singular shall include the plural. C. The masculine gender shall. include tho feminine or neuter. D. The word "erect" shall be construed to include place, construct, re -construct, establish, enlarge or alter. The word "erected" shall :;e corstrued to include placed, constructed, reconstructed, established, enlarged or altered. The word 'lerection° shall be construed to include placing, conctruction, re -constriction, establishing, en- larging or alteration. . 1. E. The word "dwelling" shall be construed -to mean and_ shall Mean and include any building, or structure designed. for or used or tobe used as a place where natural persons live or make their abodegor designed'for or used or to be used for occupancy by a natural person or persons as a dwrd.11ing or for living or sleeping or eating or recreation quarters. r. The phrase °plot of ground's whenever used. in this ordinance shall include and shall be con- strued to mean not only the land actually occupied or to be occupied by any building or buildings, but also such of the contiguous land as is a part of the same premises. Section 2. It shall be unil—aful for any person or persons to hereafter erect, ,within the City Limits of the City of Azusa, Los Angeles County, California, more than one building designed.for or used or to be used as a dwelling, on any plot of ground lying wholly within one lot, or composed of two or more contiguous lots or of contiguous portions of two or more lots or of one lot and a contiguous portion or portions of one or more adjoining lots, in the event such plot of ground has a frontage of not more than 50 feet or a. depth of not more than 150 feet. Section 3. It shall be unlawful for any person or persons to hereafter erect, within the City Limits of the City of Azusa, Los Angeles County, California, more than one building designed for or used or to be used as a dwelling, on any plot of ground lying wholly within one lot, or composed of two or more contiguous lots, or of contiguous portions of two or more lots or of one lot and a contiguous portion or portions of one or more adjoining lots, in the event such plot of ground has a frontage of more than 50 feet or a depth of more than 150 feet, except upon permit of the City Council of the City of Azusa, first obtained, the granting of which permit shall have been, previously, recommended by the Building Inspector of the said City and approved b,y the City Planning Commission of said City. 2. Section 9. It shall be unlawful for any person or parsons to hereafter erect, within the City Limits of the City of Azusa, Los Angeles County, California, any building designed for or used or to be used as a, dwelling, where there is already a dwelling standing on the plot of ground on which said erection is being, or is being pro- posed to be, done: with this proviso however, that this Section shall not be held to prohibit the erection of more than one dwelling on a plot of ground which is bounded on two or more sides by two or more public streets (not alleys), in the event said erection is first authorized by permit of the City Council_ of the City of Azusa, the grant- ing of which hermit shall have been, previously, recommended by the Building inspector of said city and approved by the City Planning Commission of said City; and with this further proviso, that this Section shall not be held to prohibit the erection of a court having a patio or court- yard of approved design, in the event the erection of such court with patio or courtyard. of approved design is first authorized by permit of the.City Council of the City of Azusa, the granting of which Hermit shall have been, pre- vicusly, recommended. by the Building Inspector of said City and approved by the City Planning Commission of said. City. Section 5. The erection of any building or buildings contrary to the terms of this ordinance, within the City Limits of the City of Azusa., shall be deemed a separate violation of this ordinance for each and every day during any part of which such building or buildings are so erected. 3. Section 6. Any person violating any of the pro- visions of this ordinance shall be guilty of eP, misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not more than $300.00 or by imprisonment in the Cite Jail or in the County Jail of the County of Los Angeles, for a c•eriod of not more than three months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Section 7, if any provision of this ordinance is, for any reason, held to be invalid. or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The City Council of the City of Azusa hereby declares that it would have adopted this ordinance and each and every pxotision thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more of the pro- visions thereof be declared invalid or unconstituti-nal. Section S. The Payor shall sign this ordinance and the City Clerk shall attest and certify to the passage, adoption and publication of the same and. shall cause the Tame to be published once, within 15 days after its passage, in the Azusa herald end Pomotropic, a weekly news- paper of general circulation, published and. circulated in said City, which newspaper is hereby designated for that purpose, and thereupon and thereafter 30 days after its passage said ordinance shall take ez'ect and be in force. AYO ATTEST:, City C erk of the„Eity of Azusa.. n STATE OF CALIFORNIA.) COUNTY OF LOS AN GELES)S5. I hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was duly introduced and read in full at a regular ,meeting of the City Council of the City of Azusa, Counter of Los Angeles, State of California, duly and regularly help on the l6th day of November, 1936, in the regular Council Chambers in said City of Azusa, Lcs Angeles County, California;Ar the said ordinance was regularly passed and ad.outed by said City Council, signed by the IaIayor and attested by the City Clerk of said City at a. regular meeting of said Council so held in the regular Council Chambers on the 7th day of December, 1936, and that the same was passed and adopted by the following vote of the Council: - Ayes: Councilmen : Noes: Councilmen yWoe— Absent: Cduncilmen 'y[ I,: City; Clerk of the City of Azusa, Los Angeles County: State of California, do further certify that I ceased said ordinance to be published on the %otic day of /dlet�isc� 1936, in the Azusa Herald and Pomotropic, a newspaper of general circulation, printed, Published and circulated in. said. City of Azusa, and that the same was Published in accord&nce• with law. &Iae A. Hynes, City lerk o£ the City of Azusa, Los Angeles County, California 5.