Ordinance - 655ORDINANCE NO. 655
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
WEST COVINA AMENDING CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF
ORDINANCE NO. 325, RELATING TO THE USES PERMITTED
IN THE C-2 ZONE, REGULATION OF SERVICE STATIONS,
THE CREATION OF A CIVIC.CENTER DISTRICT AND
REPEALING.ALL PROVISIONS RELATING TO C-R ZONE.
}� The City Council of the City of West Covina does ordain as
follows:
SECTION 1. The City Council does hereby find and determine
that the following changes and amendments were duly initiated, that the
Planning Commission has conducted a public hearing thereon, after notice
duly given and has made those recommendations to the City Council, that
the City Council has conducted a public hearing after notice duly given,
and that the public convenience and necessity and the general public
welfare require that the following changes and amendments be made.
SECTION 2. Section 900 of Ordinance No. 325 adopted June
28, 1954, is hereby amended to read as follows:
"SECTION 900: PERMITTED USES. In a C-2 zone no building
shall be erected, reconstructed or structurally altered, nor
shall any building or -land be used for any purpose except as
hereinafter provided and allowed by this Article, subject to
the provisions of Article 14 governing off-street parking
requirements.
(1) Any use permitted in C-1 (neighborhood commercial)
zone.
(2) Parking lots.
(3) Similar retail, wholesale or service business not
involving warehousing or storage except accessory
storage of commodities sold at retail on the premises.
(4) Cabaret dancing incidental to a permitted restaurant
and/or cocktail bar use but not exceeding 500 square
feet of useable floor area for dancing in any one
such establishment.
(5) Automobile sales agency, including incidental servicing
and repairs and incidental used car sales, provided
that sales and display areas need not be within build-
ings, but otherwise the provisions of Subsection 1 of
Section 901 shall apply."
SECTION 3. Section 900.1 to 900.E both inclusive, including
Article 9.1 relating to the C-R (Commercial -Restrictive Zone) are hereby
repealed.
SECTION 4. Section 1000 of said Ordinance No. 325 is hereby
amended by the addition thereto of Section (15) to replace the former
Section (15) which was repealed by Ordinance No. 596 reading as follows:
"(15) Filling Stations."
& SECTION 5. Section 1200 of said Ordinance No. 325 is hereby
amended by the addition thereto of a new subsection (13) reading as
follows:
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"(13) Filling Stations (exclusive of super service
stations) in the C-1 and C-2 zones only.
Any filling stations lawfully existing on
April 1, 1960, in a C-1 or C-2 zone shall be
deemed to be existing pursuant to an Unclassi-
fied Use Permit."
SECTION 6. Said Ordinance No. 325 is hereby amended by the
addition thereto.of a new Section 1307.'reading as follows:
"SECTION 1307: CIVIC CENTER AREA CREATED. In addition
to the,foregoing minimum area districts, pursuant to Section
65800 of the Government Code of the State of California, a
civic district'is hereby created to be known as the Civic
Center Area and consisting of all of the area around the
existing City Hall and County Branch Court House and described
as follows:
All land lying between the center line of San
Bernardino Freeway, a line 70 feet easterly of
the most easterly property line of Sunset Avenue,
a line 350 feet southerly of the proposed southerly
property line of Service Avenue 80 feet wide, and
the most westerly property line of Orange Avenue,
exclusive of any portion thereof lying southeasterly
of the northwesterly line of the Walnut Creek Wash."
SECTION 7. Section 1353 of said Ordinance No. 325 is hereby
amended to read.as follows:
"SECTION 1353s REJECTION OR APPROVAL. 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 vicinity 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 modified or conditioned before adoption as to
remove the said objections. In addition to the foregoing grounds
of rejection, if the property.covered by said precise plan lies
within the Civic Center Area, the Planning Commission and City
Council, as the case may be, may also consider and take into
account the exterior architectural design, general exterior
appearances, landscape, color, texture of surface materials
and exterior construction, shape and bulk and other physical
characteristics including location and type of public utility
facilities, and if it is found that the proposed precise plan
of design, including the considerations herein enumerated would
interfere with the orderly development in the vicinity of said
Civic Center Area, or with the existing or proposed public use
thereof, such.precise plan of design shall be rejected or shall
be so modified or conditioned before adoption as to remove the
said objections."
SECTION 8. 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 18th day of April , 1960.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGEL ES SS.
CITY.OF WEST COVINA
I, ROBERT FLOTTEN, City Clerk of the City of West Covina,
do hereby certify.that the above Ordinance No. 655 was regularly
introduced and placed upon its first reading at a regular meeting of
the City Council on the llth day of April , 1960. That, there-
after, said ordinance was duly -adopted and passed at a regular meeting
of the City Council on the 18th day of April 1960, by the
following vote, to -wit:
AYES: Councilmen: Pittenger, Mottinger, Barnes, Mayor Brown
NOES: Councilmen: None
ABSENT:Councilmen: Heath
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City Clerk
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