Ordinance - 788ORDINANCE NO 788
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
WEST COVINA AMENDING SECTIONS 9218.3 AND 9218.4
OF THE WEST �COVINA MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO
THE REJECTION OR APPROVAL OF PRECISE PLANS OF
DESIGN
E 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 were duly initiated, that
notice of hearing thereon was duly given and published, that public i
hearings thereon were duly held by the Planning Commission and City
Council, and that the public convenience and necessity and the I
general welfare require that the following changes and amendments
be made.
SECTION 2. Section 9218.3 of the West Covina Municipal Code
is hereby amended to read as follows:
""9218.3. SAME. REJECTION OR APPROVAL,
(a) In the approval or rejection of a precise plan of
design, consideration shall be given and restrictions
shall be imposed to the extent necessary, in view of the
size and shape of the parcel and the present and proposed
zoning and use of the subject property and the surrounding
property, to permit the same degree of enjoyment of the
subject property, but subject to the same degree of protec-
tion of adjoining properties, as would be accorded in normal
circumstances by the standard restrictions imposed by this
Chapter. The standard restrictions imposed in the various
zones by this Chapter relating to the subjects mentioned in
Section 9218.1 are intended as minimum restrictions neces-
sary in normal circumstances to prevent substantial depre-
ciation of property values in the vicinity, unreasonable
interference with the use and enjoyment of property in the
vicinity by the occupants thereof for lawful purposes and
the protection of the public peace, health, safety and
general welfare. 'Normal circumstances' are intended to
refer to the case of a permitted use upon a lot of a normal
size and shape surrounded by property in the same zone as
the lot in question.
(b) If the proposed precise plan of design would sub-
stantially depreciate property values in the vicnity 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 said objections.
( (c) 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 -appear-
ances, 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
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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 3. Section 9218.4 of the West Covina Municipal Code
is hereby amended to read as follows:
*9218.4. SAME. PROCEDURE.
Application for approval of a precise plan of design
or an amendment thereof shall be made in such form as
the Planning Commission shall prescribe. The procedure
(but not the grounds) set forth in Part 22 of this Chapter
shall apply to the processing and approval or rejection of
proposed precise plan of design and amendments thereof."
SECTION 4. 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 8th day of April, 1963.
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,MaY
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS,
CITY OF WEST COVINA )
I, ROBERT FLOTTEN, City Clerk of the City of West Covina,
do hereby certify that the above Ordinance No. 788 was regularly
introduced and placed upon its first reading at a regular meeting
of the City Council on the llth day of February, 1963. That,
thereafter, said ordinance was duly adopted and passed at a regular
meeting of the City Council on the 8th day of April, 1963, by the
following vote, to -wit:
AYES: Councilmen Heath, Snyder, Mayor Barnes
NOES: None
ABSENT: Councilmen Jett, Towner
City Clerk
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