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Santa Monica, California
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city council Meeting 7-25-89
STAFF REPORT
TO:
Mayor and City Council
FROM:
City Attorney
SUBJECT:
Ordinance Adding Section 8111 to the Santa
Monica Municipal Code to Adopt a Seismic Evaluation
Report for Pre-1933 Unreinforced Masonry structures
At its meeting on July 11, 1989, the City council
introduced for first reading an ordinance adding section 8111 to
the Santa Monica Municipal Code to adopt a seismic evaluation
report for pre-1933 unreinforced masonry structures. The
ordinance is now presented to the city council for adoption.
RECOMMENDATION
It 1S respectfully recommended that the accompanying
ordinance be adopted.
PREPARED BY: Robert M. Myers, city Attorney
Linda A. Mills-Coyne, Deputy City Attorney
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City council Meeting 7-25-89
Santa Monica, California
STAPF REPORT
TO:
Mayor and City council
FROM:
city Attorney
SUBJECT:
Ordinance Adding section 8111 to the Santa
Monica Municipal Code to Adopt a Seismic Evaluation
Report for Pre-1933 Unrein forced Masonry structures
At its meeting on July 11, 1989, the city Council
introduced for first reading an ordinance adding section 8111 to
the Santa Monica Municipal Code to adopt a seismic evaluation
report for pre-1933 unreinforced masonry structures. The
ordinance is now presented to the city Council for adoption.
RECOMMENDATION
It is respectfully recommended that the accompanying
ordinance be adopted.
PREPARED BY: Robert M. Myers, city Attorney
Linda A. Mills-Coyne, Deputy City Attorney
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City Council Meeting 7-25-89 Santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER 14B9(CCS)
(city council Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
SANTA MONICA MONICA ADDING SECTION 8111 TO THE SANTA
MONICA MUNICIPAL CODE TO ADOPT A SEISMIC EVALUATION
REPORT FOR PRE-1933 UNREINFORCED MASONRY STRUCTURES
WHEREAS, the recently enacted Unreinforced Masonry Law
requ~res the city council of the city of Santa Monica to adopt a
mitigation program for seismically hazardous buildings by January
I, 1990; and
WHEREAS, the adoption of a seismic retrofitting program for
unreinforced masonry buildings will be considered by the City
Council later this year; and
WHEREAS, the Ci ty Council desires the review of such a
seismic retrofitting program by the City Building and Safety
commission; and
WHEREAS,
additional information on the condition of
potentially hazardous pre-1933 unreinforced masonry structures
within the city would be useful in evaluating a seismic
retrofitting program; and
WHEREAS, the completion of the "seismic Evaluation Report
for Pre-1933 Unreinforced Masonry structures" (attached hereto as
Attachment A) by a California state licensed structural engineer
for all pre-1933 unreinforced masonry structures which have been
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identified as substandard and potentially hazardous will provide
the City with information that will be useful in the evaluation
of a seismic retrofitting program,
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA
MONICA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1.
Section 8111 is added to the Santa Monica
Municipal Code to read as follows:
SECTION 8111. Seismic Evaluation
Report. On or before January 25, 1990,
each owner of a pre-1933 unreinforced
masonry structure which has had recorded
against the structure a "Notice of
Substandard Building" shall file with
the Building and Safety Division a
"Seismic Evaluation Report for Pre-1933
URM Structurell on a form provided by the
Building and Safety Division. Such
seismic Evaluation Report shall be
completed by a California licensed
Structural Engineer whose license is
active.
SECTION 2. Any provisions of the Santa Monica Municipal
Code or appendices thereto inconsistent herewith, to the extent
of such inconsistencies and no further, are hereby repealed or
modified to the extent necessary to effect the provisions of this
Ordinance.
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SECTION 3.
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 competent
jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the
remaining portions of this Ordinance.
The ci ty 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 this Ordinance wo~ld be subsequently declared
invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 4. 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 newspaper
within fifteen (15) days after its adoption.
This Ordinance
shall become effective thirty (30) days from its adoption.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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ROBERT M. MYERS
City Attorney
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