HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrdinance No. 805 ORDINANCE NO. 805
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
AZUSA AMENDING THE PROVISIONS OF THE ZONING
CHAPTER OF THE AZUSA MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO
USABLE OPEN SPACE IN THE R-3 ZONE.
The City Council of the City of Azusa does ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. The City Council does hereby find, determine
and declare that the following amendment was duly initiated, that notice
of hearing thereon was duly given and published, that public hearings
thereon were duly held by the Planning Commission and City Council,
and that the public convenience and necessity and the general welfare
require that the following change and amendment be made.
SECTION 2. The Azusa Municipal Code is hereby amended by
the addition thereto of a new Section 9210.80 reading as follows:
"SECTION 9210.80. USABLE OPEN SPACE.
For each dwelling unit on a lot, at least 400 square
feet of usable open space shall be provided and thereafter
maintained on the same lot. 'Usable open space ' shall
mean any unobstructed area designated and designed for
outdoor living, recreation or landscaping. Up to one-half of
the required usable open space may be maintained in a private
balcony or private patio either of which has direct access
to the unit it serves and either of which shall have a mini-
mum dimension of seven feet and a minimum area of one hundred
square feet. Swimming pools (water surface areas) may be
counted as usable open space on a basis that every square
foot of water surface area with a minimum depth of three
feet shall be counted as two square feet of usable open
space for the purposes of this section, and water surface
area of a shallower depth shall be counted on a square foot
per square foot basis.
'Usable open space ' used in common shall have a mini-
mum dimension of at least fifteen feet and shall not exceed
a grade of ten percent. No portion of off-street parking space,
driveways, turn-around areas, rooftops, accessory buildings,
required front yards, or required side yards unless utilized
as a portion of private patios as defined above, or covered
pedestrian access ways between structures or dwelling units
or other common area with any dimension less than fifteen feet
shall constitute 'usable open space ' . "
SECTION 3. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of
this ordinance and shall publish the same as required by law.
Passed and approved this 15th day of June , 1964.
Mayor.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES SS.
CITY OF AZUSA
I, JAMES MILLER, City Clerk of the City of Azusa, do hereby
certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 805 was regularly intro-
duced and placed upon its first reading at a regular meeting of the City
Council on the 1st day of June , 1964. That, thereafter,
said ordinancewas duly adopted and passed at a regular meeting of the
City Council on the 15th day of June , 1964, by the follow-
ing vote, to wit:
AYES: Councilmen: Rubio, Cooney, Jackson, McLees, Memmesheimer
NOES: Councilmen: None
ABSENT:Councilmen: None
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City Cle k
I do further certify 1 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 224th day of June , 1964, and that the same was
published in accordance with law.
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City Cler
Publish Azusa Herald & Pomotropic, June 24, 1964
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