Ordinance - 551n
ORDINANCE NO. 551
AN ORDINANCE OF THE.CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA
AMENDING ORDINANCE N0..325 BY THE ADDITION.THERETO OF PROVISIONS
RELATING TO_PRECISE PLANS OF DESIGN....,-
The City Council of the City of West Covina does ordain
as follows:
SECTION 1. The City Council does hereby find, determine
and declare that the following amendments of the zoning ordinance
•� have been duly initiated, that notice of hearing thereon has been
duly given and published, that public hearings thereon were duly
held -by the Planning Commission and by the City Council and that
the public convenience and necessity and the general welfare require
that the following amendments be made.
SECTION 2. Ordinance No. 325, passed and approved the
28th day of June, 1954, is hereby amended by the addition thereto
of a new Article 13.5 entitled Precise Plans of Design consisting
of Sections 1350 to 1358, both inclusive, which are hereby added
to said ordinance, reading as follows:
Article 13.5
PRECISE PLANS OF DESIGN
Section 1356: WHEN REQUIRED. No person -shall commence
any use for which an unclassified use permit is required or any use
not permitted in either the R-A, R-1 or R-2 Zone, and no building
permit shall be issued for any structure to be used for or in con-
junction with any such use, until a precise plan of design covering
the parcel or parcels to be so used shall be approved and adopted
as herein provided.
Section 1351: CONTENTS OF. Such precise plan of design
• shall specify and include:
(1) The location, size, height, and type of all structures
including signs, walls and fences.
(2) The location, size and dimensions of all yards and
set -backs and all spaces between structures.
(3) The location, dimensions and method of improvement
of all driveways, parking areas, walkways and means of access,
ingress and egress.
(4) The location, dimensions and method of improvement
of all property.to be dedicated to the public or to public utilities.
(5) General nature of the proposed use.
Section 1352: ADOPTION OF. Any such precise plan of
design may be rejected, adopted,,,modified and adopted; or adopted
subject to conditions. -Any such precise plan of design after adoption,
may be amended in the same manner as a precise plan of design is
first adopted hereunder.
Section 1353: GROUNDS FOR REJECTION.' If the proposed
precise plan of design would substantially,depreciate property values
in the vicinity or would unreasonably interfere with the use or
enjoyment of property in the uicinity by the occupants thereof for
lawful purposes or would endanger the -public peace,:, health, safety
or general welfare, such plan shall be rejected or shall be so modi-
fied or conditioned before adopton'-as to remove the said objections.
Otherwise, such proposed precise plan shall be approved. Modifica-
tions And conditions may be imposed only to the extent reasonably
necessary in connection with the proposed use'to remove the said
objections, and to that extent may impose -greater, but shall not
permit lesser, restrictions than those imposed by this ordinance.
Section 1354:' PROCEDURE. Application for approval of a
precise plan of design shall be made in such form as the Planning
Commission shall prescribe. The procedure (but not the grounds) set
forth in Articled7 of this ordinance shall -apply to the processing
and approval or rejection of purposed precise plans of design.
Section 1355 ADOPTION SUBJECT TO CONDITION: A precise
plan of design may be approved,and adopted.;subject.to the granting
of a change of zone, an unclassified use permit, a variance, or the
approval of a final subdivision map, and the Planning Commission or
City'Council may require such a precise plan of design to be submitted
prior to the granting or recommending of a zone change, variance or
unclassified use permit.
Section 1356:_ COMPLIANCE REQUIRED. No person shall violate
or fail to comply with any adopted precise plan of design or any con-
ditions or provisions thereof nor shall a building permit be issued for
any structure which would violate or fail to comply with any adopted
• precise plan of design for the parcel or parcels on which such struc-
ture is to be located.
Section 1357: CONTINUANCE OF EXISTING'PLANS. Any precise
plan heretofore adopted and now in,effect,,whether..adopted pursuant
to the procedure herein set forth or'not, and whether adopted by ordi-
nance or resolution, is hereby approved and continued in force with
the same effect as if adopted hereunder, and this shall be so whether
or not the ordinance or resolution heretofore adopting the same shall
hereby or hereafter be repealed or rescinded.
Section 1358:' DISTINCTION FROM OTHER PRECISE PLANS. The
precise plans of design referred,to herein are not to be confused
with or opnsidered to be "precise plans" as referred to in the
Government Code of the State of California.
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SECTION 3. The City Cle rk shall certify to the passage
of this ordinance and shall cause the same to be published as required
by law.
Passed and approved this 12th day of November, 1957.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) //
COUNTY OF LOS-ANGELES ), SS. (/
CITY,OF-NEST COVINA_ )
I, ROBERT FLOTTEN, Cityc.r,llerk of the City of West Covina,
do hereby certify that,the.above Ordinance No. 551 was regularly
introduced and placed upon its first reading at a regular. -meeting
of the City Council on the 14th-dap of October, 1957. That, there-
after, said ordinance was duly adopted and passed at a'regular
meethg of the City Council on the 12th daynof November, 1957, by the
following vote, to -wit:
AYES: Councilmen Barnes, Brown, Mottinger, Pittenger, Mayor Kay
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
City Clerk of the City of Wes ovina