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city council Meeting 8-10-93
Santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER 1703
(City council Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA
AMENDING SANTA MONICA MUNICIPAL CODE
SECTION 9.04.08.04.060 REGARDING
PROPERTY DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS IN
THE R2R ZONING DISTRICT
WHEREAS, the Planning commission of the city of Santa Monica
held a duly noticed public hearing on June 2, 1993 and
recommended that the City council adopt amendments to the Zoning
Ordinance concerning property development standards in the R2R
Low Density Duplex District; and
WHEREAS, the City Council held a duly noticed public hearing
concerning such proposed amendments and finds that the proposed
amendments are consistent in principle with the goals,
objectives, policies, land uses, and programs specified -in the
adopted General Plan, in that the amendments are consistent with
Land Use and Circulation Element Objective 1.10 which states that
the city should expand the opportunity for residential land use
while protecting the scale and character of residential
neighborhoods; and
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WHEREAS, the City Council. finds that the public health,
safety, and general welfare require the adoption of the proposed
amendments in that the amendments require new development to be
compatible with the existing low scale residential neighborhood
character, specifically the narrow streets, pedestrian oriented
structures, street facing entrances, and front porches, by
providing standards for reducing building height, requiring front
entrances oriented toward the street, and providing for front
yard porch projections consistent with the neighborhood's
historic architectural character;
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA
DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Santa Monica Municipal Code section
9.04.08.04.060 is amended to read as follows:
9.04.08.04.060 Property development
standards.
All property in the R2R District shall
be developed in accordance with the following
standards:
(a) Maximum Building Height. Two
stories, not to exceed 23 feet for a flat
roof, or 30 feet for a pitched roof. A
pitched roof is defined as a roof with at
least 2 sides having no less than one foot of
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vertical rise for every three feet of
horizontal run. The walls of the building
may not exceed the maximum height required
for a flat roof.
(b) Maximum unit Density. There shall
be a minimum of fifteen hundred (1,500)
square feet of lot area for each dwelling
unit. However, one duplex shall be permitted
on any legal parcel that existed on
August 31, 1975.
(c) Maximum Parcel Coverage. 60%.
(d) Minimum Lot size. 3,000 square
feet. Each parcel shall have a minimum depth
of 100 feet and a minimum width of 30 feet,
except that parcels already developed and
existing on the effective date of this
Chapter shall not be subject to this
requirement.
(e) Front Yard Setback. 10 feet.
(f) Rear Yard Setback. 15 feet.
(g) Side Yard Setback. The side yard
setback shall be determined in accordance
with the following formula, except for lots
of less than 50 feet in width for which the
side yard shall be 10% of the parcel width
but not less than 4 feet:
3
5' +lstories x lot width)
50'
(h) Front Yard paving. No more than
50% of the required front yard area including
driveways shall be paved.
(i) Building entrance. The project
building entrance shall be oriented toward
the street, however, the front door need not
be parallel with the street.
(j) Unenclosed porches. Unenclosed
porches which may be covered by a roof or
canopy may encroach a maximum of six (6) feet
into the required ten (10) foot front yard
setback.
SECTION 2. Ordinance No. 1674 (CCS) is hereby repealed.
SECTION 3. 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
effect the provisions of this Ordinance.
SECTION 4. 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
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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
declared invalid or unconstitutional without regard to whether
any portion of the Ordinance would be subsequently declared
invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 5. The Mayor shall sign and the City Clerk shall
attest to the passage of this Ordinance. The City Clerk shall
cause the same to be published once in the official newspap~r
within 15 days after its adoption. This Ordinance shall be
effective 30 days from its adoption.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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JO PH LAWRENCE
Acting city Attorney
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Adopted and approved this
14th
day of
September
,1993.
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Mayor
I hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 1703 was duly and regularly
introduced at a meeting of the City Council on the 3rd day of August
1993; that the said Ordinance was thereafter duly adopted at a meeting of the City Council
on the 14th day of September
,1993 by the following vote:
AYES: Olsen, Vazquez, Holbrook, Greenberg, Abdo
NOES:
ABSTAIN:
ABSENT: Genser, Rosenstein
ATTEST:
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