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City council Meeting 2-26-91
Santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER 1572 (CCS)
(city council Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA MONICA DECLARING A MORATORIUM AND
LIMITING DEVELOPMENT ON 11TH STREET BETWEEN WILSHIRE
BOULEVARD AND ARIZONA AVENUE AND ON
1107 THROUGH 1115 ARIZONA AVENUE INCLUSIVE
AND DECLARING THE PRESENCE OF AN EMERGENCY
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Findings and Purpose. The City Council of the
city of Santa Monica finds and declares:
(a) Of the approximately thirty (30) residentially zoned
parcels located on 11 th Street between Wilshire Boulevard and
Arizona Avenue and located between 1107 and 1115 Arizona Avenue
at least ten (10)
are occupied by potentially historic
structures.
(b) New development projects are either approved or
pending review on three of these parcels.
(c) The preservation of the City'S historic structures has
long been considered vital to the City'S interests and necessary
so as not to impair the cultural integrity and character of the
City.
(d) The current and potential development projects in this
area may lead to the demolition of historic structures before a
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final decision can be made on whether these structures should be
preserved.
(e) The potential for development and demolition of these
structures poses a current and immediate threat to the public
health, safety, and welfare of the residents, and the approval of
permits for developments would result in a threat to pUblic
health, safety, or welfare.
(f) Research on whether this neighborhood
considered historic and thereby preserved must be
before any further development occurs.
(g) Pending completion of this research and review of its
results it is necessary to halt on an interim basis approval of
any new development applications in the affected area, thereby
preventing development inconsistent with goals of preservation of
potential historic structures.
should be
completed
SECTION 2. Interim Zoning.
(a) No project shall be approved for any residentially
zoned property on 11 th street between Wilshire Boulevard and
Arizona Avenue and between 1107 through 1115 Arizona Avenue
inclusive.
(b) This Ordinance shall apply to any application for
planning, building, or other City approvals deemed complete on or
after February 26, 1991.
SECTION 3. Duration. This Ordinance shall be of no
further force and effect forty-five (45) days from its adoption,
unless prior to that date, after a public hearing, noticed
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pursuant to Santa Monica Municipal Code section 9131.5, the City
Council, by majority vote, extends the interim ordinance.
SECTION 4. Emergency. This Ordinance is declared to be an
urgency measure adopted pursuant to the provisions of Santa
Monica Municipal Code Section 9120. 6 and Santa Monica Charter
Section 615. It is necessary for preserving the public peace,
health and safety, and the urgency for its adoption is set forth
in the findings above.
SECTION 5. Any provision of the Santa Monica Municipal
Code or appendices thereto inconsistent with the provisions of
this Ordinance, to the extent of such inconsistencies and no
further, are hereby repealed or modified to that extent necessary
to affect the provisions of this Ordinance.
SECTION 6. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause,
or phrase of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid
or unconstitutional by a decision of any court of any competent
jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the
remaining portions of this Ordinance. The City Council hereby
declares that it would have passed this Ordinance, and each and
every section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase not
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declared invalid or unconstitutional without regard to whether
any portion of the Ordinance would be subsequently declared
invalid or unconstitutional.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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City Attorney
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Adopted and approved this 26th day of February, 1991.
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I hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 1572 (CCS)
was duly and regularly introduced at a meeting of the City
Council on the 26th day of February 1991; that the said Ordinance
was thereafter duly adopted at a meeting of the City council on
the 26th day of February 1991 by the following Council vote:
Ayes: councilmembers: Genser, Holbrook, Olsen, Vazquez,
Zane, and Mayor Abdo
Noes: councilmembers: None
Abstain: Councilmembers: None
Absent: Councilmembers: Katz
ATTEST:
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