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Ordinance - 101ORDINANCE NO. 101 A14 ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF WEST CO VINA ORDERING THE ESTABLISBMENT OF A SET -BACK LINE ON STATE • HIGHWAY AND OTHER STREETS OF WEST COVINA. THE CITY COUNCIL of the City of Test Covina, California do ordain as follows: Section 1. That the City Council of the City of West Covina hereby determines that the public Peace, health, safety, comfort, con- venience, 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 a set -back line, shall be as follows: On the State Highway through the City of West Covina, the 4P set -back line for all buildings shall be a lire parallel with and distant �— fe @t from the street line. On all streets in Wiest Covina intersecting the State High- way, the set -back line for all buildings shall be a line parallel with said intersecting street lines and distant eS feet back from said street line for a distance of 200 feet back from the State Highway line: The set -back line for all so called "garage houses" in which persons plan to reside for a period before building their residence shall be a line parallel with and distant 75 feet from the street line.. All other set -back lines for all buildings on all streets not above specifically described shal-1 be a 1-ine parallel with and distant from said street line thirty-five (35) feet. Section 2. That any person, firm or corporation erecting or constructing any building or structure or portion thereof between such set -back lines, or violating any provision of this ordinance shall be deeded 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 Build- ing Inspector or any officer charged with the duty of issuing building permits for the erection or construction of any building or structure in violation of this ordinance. Sectinn 4. That whereas the City Council of the City of West Covina is contemplating the adoption -of a. general ordinance regu- lating and determining the lines in the residence districts of said pity to be known as set -back lines and establishng.thereby the minimum distance back from the property lines for the prection of buildings or structures, and comtemplates and proposes in said ordinance to establish • such lines on all streets in,the City of v?est Covina; and whereas the erection or construction of buildings or structures on property abutt- ing on said street nearer t-o 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 the-refore finds and t U determines that for the immdediate preserva�ion of the public health, peace, safety, comfort, vonvenience, interest and welfare, an emergency exists and this ordinance is enacted as an emergency measure and ord- inance, and that the same shall take effedt immediately upon the same being posted by the Cite Clerk in the manner required by law and by the ordinances of the City of V-lest Covina. Attest: - STATE 0 COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES s s . CITY OF WEST C C-".' INA ) c�QEy �. NA4a.. ti 1' certify that the foregoing the City of West Covina at loth day of May, 1944, and said ordinance was adopted TJlayor of the City of West Covina. City Clerk of the City of West CoviAl.a hereby ordinance was adopted by the City Council of the regular meeting of said Council on the signed by the Mayor of said City, and that by the following votes: AYES: VVan Horn,Daniels,Hurst,Mossberg NOES, None ABSENT: None CiW Clerk STATE OF CALIFORNIA J COUNTY OF LOS ANGLES ss. C I TY OF WEST C OVINA ) CAnr_y Is, 14Aa, . B-, being first duly sworn, says- That he is the City Clerk of the City of West Covina, .and is a citizen of the U. S. and over the age of twenty-one years; that on the 15 day of May, 1944, he posted three copies of Ordinance No. 101 of the City of West Covina, entitled "AN ORDINANCE 03', ='HE t,ITY OF 'NEST COVINA ORDERII`G THE ESTABLISHMENT OF A SETIBACK LIN 11 ON STATE HIGHWAY AND OTTHER STI=tEEt'S CF. ',,EST COVINA'1, in three_ places in said City, to wit: one at the Police Office 361 West , State highway, one in front of the West Covina School House and one at the north - rest corner of Puente Street and Lark Ellen Boulevard. SUBSCRIBED AND SWORN to before me this 1 1daay of May, 1944 Notary Public in and for said County and State.