HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 1035 ORDINANCE NO. 1035
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF AZUSA, AMENDING SECTION 9207 OFA
AND ADDING SECTIONS 9223, 9223.1, 9223.2
9223.3, 9223.4 and 9223.5 TO THE AZUSA
MUNICIPAL CODE, ESTABLISHING THE "CBD"
CENTRAL BUSINESS DISTRICT ZONE.
The City Council of the City of Azusa does ordain as
follows :
SECTION 1. Section 9207 of the Azusa Municipal Code
is hereby amended by adding the following at the end thereof:
"CBD" Central Business District.
SECTION 2. Sections 9223, 9223.1, 9223.2, 9223.3,9223.4
and 9223.5 are hereby added to said code to read respectively as
follows :
Section 9223. Central Business District Zone. Scope
The "CBD" - Central Business District Zone is intended to serve
the needs of the downtown area by allowing maximum ground coverage
and expanding floor space and building height limitations for the
purpose of concentrating the maximum variety of facilities for dis-
pensing of commodities and rendering of services to the entire city.
Residential uses in a mixed occupancy are permitted and encouraged in
this zone. The areas for which this classification is intended are
generally already developed and, in some instances, facing obsolescence
and deterioration. The provisions of this classification are intended
to encourage redevelopment of the land to its highest and best use.
Section 9223.1. Uses Permitted
(a ) Retail commercial activities conducted wholly within a com-
pletely enclosed building for the following uses :
1. Antique Shop (genuine)
2. Art gallery
3. Art shop
4. Audio and video equipment and supplies
5. Auto parts (new only)
6. Baby Shop
7. Bakery
8. Banks and financial institutions including drive-up
facilities in conjunction with the main building
9. Barber and beauty shops
10. Books and stationery shops
11. Cafe
12. Clothing shop
13. Coffee shop
14. Confectionary store
15. Cosmetic shop
16. Crafts shop
17. Cycle shop, excluding motorcycles
18. Delicatessen
19. Drug store
20. Florist
21. Food market
22. Gift shop
23. Governmental facilities
24. Hardware and paint supplies
25. Health studio, gymnasium, reducing salons
26. Hobby shop
27. Home furnishing store
28. Household appliances, sales and service
29. Ice cream parlor and soda fountain
30. Jewelry sales and service
31. Leather goods store
31a. Liquor store
32. Music store
33. Novelty shop
34. Offices, business and professional
35. Photography equipment and supplies
36. Picture framing
37. Restaurant providing no entertainment is permitted and no
liquor or alcoholic beverages are sold or dispensed
38. Shoe repair, sales
39. Sporting goods
40. Theatre, theatrical and motion picture
41. Ticket agency
42. Tobacconist
43. Toy store
4+4. Travel agency
45. Weaving and knitting shops
(b) Parking lot for automobiles
(c ) Signs as provided in Section 9230.70(c )
(d) The following uses may be permitted after a public hearing in
each case under a Conditional Use Permit in accordance with
procedures stated in Section 9231.12 and Sections 9231.20 to
9231.29 inclusive :
1. Bar or cocktail lounge
2. Billard parlor
3. Hotel or motel
4. Outdoor cafe
5. Residential uses, excluding first floor, in conjunction with
a commercial development
6. Restaurant, cafe with entertainment or liquor or alcoholic
beverages being sold or dispensed on the premises
Section 9223.2, Uses Prohibited
The following uses are prohibited without exception:
1. Automobile repair
2. Automobile sales
3. Automobile service station
4. Industrial uses
5. Mobilehome park
6. Surplus sales, rummage or thrift shops
7. Wholesaling and warehousing
Section 9223.3,Development Standards
(a ) MINIMUM LOT SIZE - No restriction
(b) MINIMUM LOT AREA PER DWELLING UNIT - The minimum lot area shall
be as set by the Conditional Use Permit.
(c ) YARDS :
1. FRONT - When across the street from a residential zone,
a front yard of not less than fifteen (15) feet shall be
provided and maintained. When a through lot is developed
both streets shall be considered as being front setbacks.
In all other cases there are no requirements.
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2. SIDE - When adjacent to a residential zone, a side yard
of not less than twenty-five (25 ) feet shall be provided
and maintained. When across the street from a residential
zone, a side yard of not less that fifteen (15) feet shall
be provided and maintained. In all other cases there are
no requirements.
3. REAR - When adjacent to a residential zone, a rear yard of
not less than twenty-five (25) feet shall be provided and
maintained. Where an alley separates this zone from the
residential zone, one-half (1/2) of the alley may be
included in the required rear yard. In all other cases
there are no requirements.
One-half (1/2) of all required side and rear setbacks shall
be landscaped. All remaining area may be landscaped, developed
with reflection pools, fountains, pedestrian walkways, rest
areas or other similar appurtenances.
(d) MAXIMUM LOT COVERAGE - No restriction
(e) MINIMUM FLOOR AREAS - Minimum floor area for residential uses
shall be as follows :
Number of bedrooms Minimum Floor Area
(in square feet)
Bachelor 500
1 bedroom 650
2 or more 800
A]l other uses - No minimum set
(f) MAXIMUM FLOOR AREA - Maximum floor area shall not exceed three
(3) times the lot area, except for that area designated "Height
District 1" in which the maximum floor area shall not exceed
six (6) times the lot area. For the purpose of this SectLon,
floor area shall not include that area used
for parking, access thereto, elevator shafts, stairwells, and
those areas used exclusively for mechanical equipment required
for the operation and maintenance of the building.
(g) MAXIMUM BUILDING HEIGHT - Maximum building height shall be as
set by the Conditional Use Permit.
(h) SEPARATIONS - Where mixed occupancies occur (residential and
commercial or office ), parking and recreational area shall
be separated. An attempt shall be made to separate the entran-
ces to the different occupancies. Separations shall be reviewed
at the time of the public hearing on the Conditional Use Permit.
Adequate soundproofing shall be provided between mixed occupan-
cies.
(i ) RECREATIONAL AREA - A minimum of 200 square feet per dwelling
unit shall be provided as recreation or landscaped area. Up
to one-half (1/2) of this area may be provided in private
balconies, provided such balcony has a minimum width of seven
(7) feet, a minimum area of one-hundred (100) square feet
and has direct access only to the unit which it serves. All
other recreation or landscaped area may include, but is not
limited to, the following: sundecks, rooftop recreation areas,
rooftop gardens, recreation rooms, saunas, and other similar
facilities, designed for the exclusive use of the residents of
the building.
(j ) PARKING
1. Off-street parking shall be provided on the same parcel
or parcel immediately adjacent, as follows :
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a. Surface parking
Residential: 2 spaces per dwelling unit
Office : 1 space per each 300 square feet of floor area
Commercial : 1 space per each 250 square feet of street
floor area and 1 space per each 500 square feet of
floor area above or below the street floor
b. Surface or above ground garage spaces
Residential: 1 1/2 spaces per dwelling unit
Office : 1 space per each 350 square feet of floor area
Commercial : 1 space per each 300 square feet of street
floor area and 1 space per each 500 square feet of floor
area above or below the street floor
c . Completely underground garage spaces
Residential: 1 space per dwelling unit
Office : 1 space per each 400 square feet of floor area
Commercial: 1 space per each 500 square feet of floor
area
2. All off-street parking spaces shall be 9 feet wide by 20
feet long and fully improved in accordance with Section
9230.52 of the Azusa Municipal Code. In cases where parking
is provided on adjacent parcels documents shall be recorded
agreeing to hold parcels as one.
(k) SIGNS - All signs shall comply with Section 9230.70
Section 9223.4 Performance Standards
(a ) NON-CONTAMINATED EMISSIONS - Any existing or proposed use shall
have all intakes and exhausts, on all air handling equipment,
designed, installed and operated in such a manner so as to pre-
vent any perceptible acceleration of air movement across property
lines. Cooling towers and condensers shall be designed, installed
and operated in a manner which will prevent water spray from
being carried across property lines.
(b ) VIBRATION - Vibration, in the form of earth-borne oscillation,
shall not cause displacement at any lot line exceeding the limits
stated in the table below. These limits shall not apply to
operations involved in the construction or demolition of struc-
tures.
Maximum displacement at any lot
line (in inches )
Frequency Steady State Impact Vibration**
(cycles per second) Vibration*
10 and below .0008 .0016
10-20 .0005 .0010
20-30 .0003 .0006
30-40 .0002 .0004
40-50 .0001 .0002
50-60 .0001 .0002
60 and over .0001 .0002
*Continuous vibrations - Discrete pulses occurring at more than
30 per minute shall be considered steady-state vibration.
**Discrete pulses occurring at less than 30 per minute.
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(c ) NOISE - Noise radiated in each Standard Octave Band (Table 1)
and/or at the Preferred Frequencies (Table 11) by any use or
facility (other than transportation facilities or temporary
construction work) shall not exceed the values given in Table 1
or Table 11, after applying the correction shown in Table 111,
when measured, (1) along any point on the
property line of the property on which the use is located
or (2) at any point along a line located 100 feet from the
outer perimeter of the structure radiating said noise, which-
ever is applicable.
Use of either Table 1 or Table 11 shall be at the discretion
of the Planning Department, depending on availability of methods
and equipment, but with either method, the sound pressure level
shall be measured with a sound level meter and associated
octave band analyzer, conforming to standards prescribed by the
American Standards Association.
TABLE 1
(Octave Band Frequency Standard Method)
Frequency Band in Sound Pressure Level in
Cycles per second Decibels
Re : 0.0002 dyne/cm2
7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. to
7:00 a.m. 7:00 p.m.
20-75 69 74
75-150 54 59
150-300 47 52
300-600 41 4246
600-1200 37
1200-2400 34 39
2400-4800 31 34
4800-10,000 28 32
10,000-15,000 28 32
TABLE 11
(Preferred Frequency Standard Method)
Frequency Band in Sound Pressure level in
Cycles per second Decibels
Re : 0 .0002 dyne/cm2
7:00 p.m. to 7:00 a.m. to
7 :00 a.m. 7:00 p.m.
31.5 75 79
63 65 70
125 52 57
250 46 51
500 40
1000 36 41
2000 33 37
4000 30 34
8000 27 32
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TABLE 111
Type of Operation or
Characteristic of Noise Correction in Decibels
Noise of Impulsive Character
(hammering, etc. ) - 5
Noise of Periodic Character
(hum, screech, etc. ) - 5
Section 9223.5 . Incentive Measure
(a ) ADDITIONAL FLOOR AREA - In addition to the maximum floor area
permitted by Section 9223.3 (f), three (3) additional square
feet of floor area shall be permitted for each square foot
of open ground area if the following are provided and main-
tained:
1. Such open areas shall be unobstructed from the ground upward,
unless covered by a roof or balcony supported entirely by
the building.
2. Such open area shall be contiguous to rights-of-way, side
property lines, required setbacks or adjacent open areas
and have a minimum width of five (5 ) feet.
3. A minimum of one-half (1/2) of such open areas shall be
landscaped. All remaining open area may be landscaped,
developed with reflection pools, fountains, pedestrian
walkways, rest areas or other similar appurtenances.
SECTION 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage
of this ordinance and shall cause the same to be published as required
by law.
Passed and approved this 5th_ day of July , 1972.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS.
CITY OF AZUSA )
I, DEAN KGARR, City Clerk of the City of Azusa, do hereby
certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 1035 was regularly intro-
duced and placed upon its first reading at a regular meeting of the
City Council on the 5th day of June , 1972. That, thereafter,
said ordinance was duly adopted and passed at a regular meeting of the
City Council on the -nth day of July , 1972, by the following
vote, to wit:
AYES : Councilmen Rubio, Decker, Solem
NOES: Councilmen Clark
ABSENT: Councilmen Snyder
City Cl r
I do further certify that I caused said ordinance to be
published prior to the expiration of fifteen days from the passage thereof
in the Azusa Herald and Pomotropic, a newspaper of general circulation,
printed, published and circulated in the City of Azusa, on the 13th day
of July , 1972, and that the same was pu lished in accordance with
law.
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Publish Azusa Herald & Pomotropic, July 13, 1972