Ordinance - 68ORDINANCE NO. (b O
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA ORDERING
THE ESTABLISMIENT OF A,SET BACK.LINE.ON STATE.T
HIGMVAY AND OTHER STREETS.OF WEST.COVINA ..
The City Council of the City of West Covina, California,
do ordain as follows:
SECTION 1: That the City Council of the City cf West
Covina hereby determines that -the public peace, health, safety,
comfort, convenience, interest, and welfare, require, and it
is hereby ordered that the minimum distance back from the
property line for the erection of any building or structure, to
• be designated as set -back lines, shall be as follows:
• On the State Highway through the City of Test Covi na , the
set back line for all buildings shall be a line parallel with
and distant fifty feet from the street line
On all streets in West Covina intersecting the. State
Highway; the set back line for all buildings shall be a line
parallel with said intersecting street lines and distant
fifty (50) feet back from said street line for a distance of
200 feet back from the State Highway Street line.
All other set back lines for all buildings on all streets
not above specifically described shall be a line parallel
with and distant from said street line thirty-five (35) feet.
SECTION Z: That any person -,,`firm or corporation erecting;
or constructing any building or structure or portion tba reof
between such. set -back lines, or violating any provision c this
ordinance shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon
conviction thereof shall be punishable by a fine of not to exceed
Five -Hundred Dollars ($500.00), or by imprisonment in the City
Jail not to exceed six months,'or by both such fine and
imprisonment.
SECTION 3: No building permit shall be issued by the
Building Inspector or any officer charged with the duty of.
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issuing building permits for the erection or construction of any
building or structure in violation of this ordinance.
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SECTION 4: That whereas the City Council of the City of
Nest Covina is contemplating the adoption of a general cinch nanee
regulating and determining the lines in the residence districts
of said City to be known as set -back lines and establishing
thereby the minimum distance back from the property lines for the
erection of buildings or structures, and contemplates and
proposes in said ordinance to establish such lines on all streets
In the City of West Covina; and whereas the erection (r:
construction of buildings or structures on property abutting on
said street nearer to said street than said proposed set -back
lines would defeat or seriously injure the ultimate execution
of said plan and the purposes of such proposed ordinance, before
the same can be prepared in detail, the City Council of said
City therefore finds and determines that for the immediate
preservation of the -public health, peace, safety, comfort,
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convenience, interest and welfare, an emergency exists a.nd this
ordinance is enacted as an emergency measure and ordinance, amd
that the same shall take effect immediately upon the same being
posted by the City Clerk in the manner required by law and by
the ordinances of the City of West Covina.
ATTEST:
City ' Clerk -
STATE OF CALIFORNIA }
COUNTY OF LOS ANGEIE S
CITY OF VEST COVINA }
lvlayo tp City of Test Cov na
I, C. C. TOLAND, City Clerk of the City of Wiest Covina,
hereby certify that. the foregoing ordinance vras adopted by the
City Council of the City of Test Covina at the regular meeting
of said Council on the . ! / day of
and signed by the MayoF of said City, and that said Ordinan.ce
was adopted by the following votes:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
Ci ty Cl erk
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES $ ss.
CITY OF WEST COVINA }
I, C. C. TOLAND, being first duly sworn, says: That he
is the City Clerk of the City of West Covina, and is a citizen
of the Uni ed States and over the age of twenty-one years; that
on the l day of , 1937, he posted three copies
of Ordinan ec No.�` of the C� of West Covina, entitle d "An
Ordinance of the city of Nest Covina Ordering the Establishment
of a Set Back Line on State Highway and Other Streets of West
Covina", in three public places in said City, to -wit: ore at the
door of the West Covina Club House,: the same being the pla=ce
where the regular meeting of the City Council of the said City
are held, one on Sunset AvenVLe in front of the Vest Covim School
House, and one at the northwest corner of Puente Street and
Lark Ellen Boulevard.
SUBSCRIBED AND 20f
ORN ]p before me City,C erkthis / .5 day 1937.
No Public in and for said County
and State.