Ordinance - 1651ORDINANCE NO. 1651
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF WEST
• COVINA, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING SECTION 26-204 OF THE
WEST COVINA MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO PARK FEES IN
CONNECTION WITH MULTIPLE FAMILY RESIDENTIAL
DEVELOPMENT.
WHEREAS, the City Council on October 13, 1970, adopted Ordinance No. 1144
establishing Park Fees to be applied with multiple family residential develop-
ment;- and
WHEREAS, said ordinance specified dollar amounts of the fees to be
applied and such amounts have not been periodically adjusted to maintain an
approximate relationship to the cost of providing park and recreational facili-
ties; and
WHEREAS, said originally established Park Fees were equivalent to the
similar fees applied to subdi.visi-ons and the manner of applying subdivision fees
has since been. amended on February 28, 1983, as required by revisions to the
State Map Act; and
WHEREAS, the City Council desires that the Park Fees in connection with
multiple family residential development bear an approximate relationship to the
cost of provi.din.g park and recreational facilities and be equivalent to those
similar fees applied to subdivisions.
• NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of West Covina does hereby
ordain. as follows:
SECTION 1. Section 26-204 of the West Covina Municipal Code is amended
to read as follows:
Section 26-204. Park Fees.
(a) Every person who constructs a multiple family residential
development shall pay a fee as set forth in Section 20-40
for the purpose of providing park and recreational
facilities to serve future residents of such development.
(b) The Planning Commission may, as a condition to the
approval of any precise plan of design and/or unclassified
use permit for a multiple family residential development,
waive or reduce the requirement of the preceding paragraph
for the payment of fees for park or recreation purposes
wherever it is reasonable to do so in view of its studies
and investigations and in consideration of the circumstances.
(c) This section shall apply to all undeveloped multiple family
residential property and to all approved precise plans and/or
unclassified use permits which have not commenced construc-
tion prior to the effective date of this section.
• SECTION 2. That the City Clerk shall certify to the passage of this
ordinance and shall cause the same to be published.
PASSED AND APPROVED this 13th day of November , 1984•
Mayor
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City Clerk
State of California )
County of Los Angeles ) ss.
• City of West Covina )
I, HELENE MOONEY, City Clerk of the City of West Covina, California,
do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 1651 was regularly introduced
and placed upon its first reading at a regular meeting of the City Council on the
22nd day of October , 1984. That thereafter said ordinance was
duly adopted and passed at a regular meeting of the City Council on the 13th
day of November 1984, by the following vote, to wit:
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AYES: Councilmembers: Manners, Tennant, Bacon
NOES: Councilmembers: None
ABSENT: Councilmembers: Chappell, Shearer
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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State of California
County of Los Angeles. ss.
City of West Covina
1, JANET BERRY, -Deputy City Clerk of the City -of
West Covina., State of California, do hereby certify
that a true and accurate copy of Ordinance No.
was published, pursuant to law, in the West Covina
Tribune, a newspaper of general circulation publis
hed
pnd circulated in the City of West Covina.
Janet Berry, Deputy City Clerk
City of West Covina, California