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city council Meeting 4-11-95
Santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER 1795 (CCS)
(City council Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA MONICA AMENDING SANTA MONICA MUNICIPAL
CODE SECTIONS 9.04.10.08.190 AND 9.04.10.08.200
REGARDING COMMON SUBTERRANEAN PARKING STRUCTURES AND
LOCATION OF REQUIRED PARKING SPACES
WHEREAS, the Planning Commission adopted a Resolution of
Intention to amend the zoning ordinance to prohibit projects on
individual parcels from sharing subterranean parking structures
unless the parcels were combined; and adopted a Resolution of
Intention to allow greater design flexibility in garages; and
WHEREAS, the Planning commission held a public hearing on the
proposed amendments on June 15, 1994 and November 2, 1994, and made
recommendations to the city Council following the hearing; and
WHEREAS, the City council finds and declares that the
proposed amendment is consistent in principle with the goals,
obJectives, policies, land uses, and programs specified ln the
adopted General Plan, in that the amendments allows development
consistent with the General Plan, and ensures that while greater
design flexibility is provided, development projects comply with
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applicable setback, inclusionary housing and environmental review
requirements; and
WHEREAS, the public health, safety, and general welfare
require the adoption of the proposed amendment, in that the
amendment will allow greater design flexibility and ensure that
individual projects will not be built over common subterranean
garages and thereby avoid environmental analysis and inclusionary
housing requirements associated with larger projects;
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA
MONICA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 9.04.10.08.190 of the Santa Monica
Municipal Code is amended to read as follows:
9.04.10.08.190 Location of required parking spaces.
(a) Required off-street parking spaces shall be
located on the parcel or building site. In commercial or
industrial districts, off-street parking may be located
off of the parcel or building site, except as prohibited
by section 9.04.10.08.200 of this Chapter, if each of the
following conditions are satisfied:
(1) All parking spaces are located within
1,000 feet of the perimeter of the parcel or building
slte and the parking area commences within 300 feet of
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the perimeter. This distance shall be computed from the
nearest point of the parking area.
(2) The property on which the parking spaces
are provided is owned in fee by the owner of the parcel
or building site which is subject to the parking space
requirements.
(3) Addi tional documents, covenants, deed
restrictions, or other agreements as may be deemed
necessary by the Zoning Administrator are executed to
assure that the required parking spaces are maintained
off site.
(b) Parking requirements may not be met by providing
parking in the front one-half of a parcel in a
residential district except:
(1) In a garage which shall have not more than
18 feet of garage door or doors facing the front lot
line for each 75 feet or fraction thereof of lot width.
A door to a single space shall be not less than 8 feet
nor more than 9 feet wide, and a door to two spaces shall
not be more than 16 feet wide. Not more than one double
garage may be entered from the side street side of a
corner of a reversed corner lot through a door not more
than 16 feet wide. Any garage on the front one-half of a
lot or on the side street side of a corner or a reversed
corner lot shall be fully enclosed within the
architecture and structure of the main building except
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for entrances;
(2) In mUlti-family residential districts,
where the parcel has no alley, provided that no part of
a required front yard shall be used for parking purposes;
(3) Where the parcel is in the A Overlay
Dlstrict and has been approved for parking use pursuant
to the provisions of Part 9.04.08.36.
SECTION 2. Section 9.04.10.08.200 of the Santa Monica
Municipal Code is amended to read as follows:
9.04.10.08.200 Subterranean parking structures.
A parking structure shall be considered to be
subterranean if the structure is entirely underground.
All subterranean parking structures shall be constructed
and maintained as follows:
(a) All openings for lngress and egress facing the
front parcel line shall be situated at or behind the
front buildlng line of the main building. There shall be
no more than two openings facing the front parcel line
for each main building.
(b) A subterranean parking structure may be
constructed and maintained in any required yard area
except in the required unexcavated areas.
(c) Exits from any subterranean parking structure
shall provide sight distance which comply with standards
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established by the City Parking and Traffic Engineer.
(d) Development located on two or more separate
parcels may share common subterranean parking garages or
link circulation between subterranean parking facilities
only if the parcels are combined pursuant to section
9.04.06.010(g) .
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
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
invalld or unconstitutional without regard to whether any portion
of the Ordinance would be subsequently declared lnvalid or
unconstltut~onal.
SECTION 5. The Mayor shall sign and the City Clerk shall
attest to the passage of this Ordinance. The City Clerk shall
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cause the same to be published once
wi thin 15 days after its adoption.
effective 30 days from its adoption.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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in the off icial newspaper
This Ordinance shall be
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Mayor
State of Califorma )
County of Los Angeles) ss
City of Santa MOllica )
I, Clarice E Dykhouse, City Clerk of the CIty of Santa MOllica, do hereby certify that the
foregoing Ordmance No.1795 (CCS) had its first reading on March 21, 1995 and had its
second reading on April 11, 1995 and was passed by the followmg vote
Ayes Councilmembers'
Genser, Greenberg, Ebner, Rosenstem, Abdo,
O'Connor, Holbrook
Noes Councilmembers:
None
Abstam: Councilmembers:
None
Absent Councilmembers
None
ATTEST
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City Clerk