HomeMy WebLinkAboutResolution No. 6538RESOLUTION NO. 6538
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF AZUSA DENYING A VARIANCE (VARIANCE CASE
NO. V 495 SANMUKH BHAKTA).
The City Council of the City of Azusa does resolve as
follows:
SECTION 1. The City Council does hereby find and
determine that there was filed with the Planning Commission the
application of Sahmukh Bhakta (Variance Case No. V 495) request-
ing permission to maintain a billboard painted on the side of a
building and located within three hundred (300) feet of an
existing billboard on property located at 628 North Azusa Avenue;
that a hearing thereon was duly conducted by the Planning Comm-
ission and the Planning Commission denied the variance; that
the matter was appealed to the City Council and the City Council
held a hearing thereon and proper and legal notice of hearing was
duly given.
SECTION 2. After due notice and public hearing, the
City Council finds:
(a) In the early part of 1977, without benefit of
permit or variance an advertising sign was painted on the south
wall of the Canyon City Hotel located at 628 North Azusa Avenue.
Said sign is sixteen feet (161) wide and twelve feet (12') high
and contains one hundred ninety-two square feet (192 sq. ft.) in
area. Said sign advertises services other than those conducted
on the premises and is therefore an outdoor advertising or bill-
board structure within the definition of theAzusa Municipal Code.
(b) The Azusa Municipal Code provides that no bill-
board or outdoor advertising sign shall be painted on -any wall,
building, or fence. The Azusa Municipal Code also provides that
no billboard or outdoor advertising structure may be placed or
located within three hundred feet (300') of another billboard or
outdoor advertising structure.
(c) The sign which is the subject of this variance
application is painted on the side of a building and is located
approximately two hundred seventy-five feet (275') north of an
approved billboard.
(d) There is no other approved billboard or outdoor
advertising structure painted on a wall within the City.
Permitting the sign which is the subject of this application, would
be inconsistent with the objectives of the sign ordinance which is
to encourage well designed and pleasing in appearance signs to
encourage a desirable urban character within the City.
(e) The strict application of the Zoning Ordinance will
not deprive the owner of any privilege enjoyed by other property
in the same vicinity and in the same zone inasmuch as there has not
been allowed the establishment of any other billboard or outdoor
advertising structure painted on any wall, building, or fence in
the City under the current sign ordinance.
(f) The granting of the variance would be materially
detrimental to the public welfare and injurious to property in the
vicinity by allowing the establishment of a painted sign on a
building and further by allowing a billboard within less than
three hundred feet (300') of an approved billboard within the City.
SECTION 3. Variance Case No. V 495 is hereby denied.
SECTION 4. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption
of this resolution.
Adopted and approved this 2Othday of June, 1977.
Mayor
I hereby certify that the foregoing resolution was duly
adopted by the City Council of the City of Azusa at a regular meeting
thereof held on the2Oth day of June, 1977, by the following vote
of the Council:
AYES: Councilmen: Decker, Fry., Arkison, Solem
NOES: Councilmen: Cruz
ABSENT: Councilmen: None
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