Ordinance - 814ORDINANCE NO. 814
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
WEST COVINA AMENDING THE PROVISIONS OF THE
ZONING CHAPTER OF THE WEST COVINA MUNICIPAL CODE
RELATING TO THE R-P RESIDENTIAL PROFESSIONAL ZONE.
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 hearings thereon
were duly held by the Planning Commission and City Council, and that the
public convenience and necessity and the general welfare require that
the following changes and amendments be made.
SECTION 2. Sections 9210, 9210.1, 9210.21 9210.3, 9210.4,
and 9210.5 of the West Covina Municipal Code are hereby amended to read,
respectively, as follows:
119210. RESIDENTIAL PROFESSIONAL (R-P ZONE). PERMITTED USES.
In an R-P Zone only the following uses are permitted as
hereinafter specifically provided and allowed subject to pro-
visions of this Chapter governing off-street parking requirements,
except as otherwise herein provided.
(a) Administrative, business and professional offices of
the following type:
1. Accountants
2. Advertising Agencies
3. Appraisers
4. Architects and Drafting Services
5. Attorneys
6. Bookkeepers
7. Brokers - stock, bond, insurance and real estate
8. Collection Agencies
9. Counseling Services, marriage and family
10. Doctors, dentists, occulists, optometrists,
chiropractors, and others practicing the
healing arts for human beings..
11. Employment Agencies
12. Engineers
13. Escrow Agents
14. Research, not involving manufacture,
fabrication, processing or retail
sale of products-
15. Surveyors
16. Telephone answering services
17. Travel Agencies
18. Similar uses providing administrative, business
and professional services.
The uses permitted by the provisions of this Part shall
include only uses involving the rendering of services and shall
not include the manufacturing, fabricating or selling of any
article or commodity other than that incidental to the professional
services rendered. Necessary uses subordinate to but necessary
for the uses set forth above such as dental and medical laboratories,
pharmacy dispensing drugs only, other technical laboratories and
other service facilities normally associated with the above
mentioned uses shall be allowed.
(b) A public parking area when developed in accordance
with Section 9219.15.
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(c) Signs, subject to the following conditions:
1. The number of signs shall be limited to one
per building face when that face fronts on a
public street directly, or shall be permitted
if the building face is at an angle to such street,
whichever is the more reasonable application.
• 2. The total area of signs displayed shall be no
larger than the ratio of two square feet per each
foot of building face, provided the total area
shall not exceed 75 square feet of aggregate
surface area.
3. Signs shall be attached to and be parallel to the
wall of the building fronting the principal street
and shall not extend above the top of the wall
to which they are attached.
4. Detached signs shall be allowed when shown upon
and in conformance with an approved precise plan
of design showing the general location and
dimensions thereof.
5. One identification sign, not to exceed one-half
the area provided in (c) 2 above, may be placed
at the rear of the building when an entrance
therein opens onto a public parking area. Such
sign shall be attached and parallel to the
wall facing the parking area and shall not
extend above the top of the wall.
• 6. Name plates not exceeding two square feet in
area containing the name of the occupant.
7. Advertising on any signs shall pertain only to
services rendered or uses conducted on the
premises.
8. Signs shall not be constructed or maintained to
flash, rotate or in any way simulate motion.
9210.1. Height.
No building or structure in the R-P Zone shall exceed fifty
feet in height. At any building setback line the maximum height
shall not exceed 18 feet except when the adjacent property having
a common property line is zoned for non-residential uses. For
every two feet of additional setback one additional foot in height
will be permitted until the 5 foot maximum is reached. In the
event of hillside development the administration of this section as
to where height is measured shall be left to the Planning Director
and the Chief Building Inspector.
9210.2. Front Yard.
Every lot or parcel in the R-P Zone shall have a front yard
of not less than 15 feet.
9210.3. Side Yards.
In the R-P Zone every lot shall have side yards as follows:
(a) Interior and corner lots:
1. Five feet in Area District I.
2. Seven feet in Area District II, IIA and III.
3. Ten feet in Area District IV and V.
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(b) Reversed corner lots:
1. Shall have the same side yard requirements
as interior lots except the street side shall
be no less than 50% of the required front yard
of the lot to the rear.
9210.4. Rear Yard.
Every lot or parcel in the R-P Zone shall have a rear
yard of not less than 15 feet.
9210.5. Off -Street Parking.
The off-street parking spaces required shall be not less
than those set forth in Part 19 of this Chapter."
SECTION 3. Sections 9210.6 and 9210.7 of the West Covina
Municipal Code are hereby repealed.
SECTION 4. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of
this ordinance and shall publish the same as required by law.
Passed and approved this 12th day of August , 1963.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES SS.
CITY OF WEST COVINA
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I, ROBERT FLOTTEN, City Clerk of the City of West Covina, do
hereby certify that the above Ordinance No. 814 was regularly intro-
duced and placed upon its first reading at a regular meeting of the City
Council on the 22nd day of July, 1963. That, thereafter, said ordinance
was duly adopted and passed at a regular meeting of the City Council on
the 12th day of August , 1963, by the following vote, to -wit:
AYES: Councilmen: Towner, Heathi;i Snyder, Mayor Barnes
NOES: Councilmen: None
ABSENT:Councilmen: Jett
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City Clerk
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