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city council Meeting 2-14-95
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Santa Monica, cal~S~~ ~
FED 2 1 1995
TO: Mayor and city council
FROM: City Attorney
SUBJECT: Proposed Ordinance Amending Ordinance No. 1737(CCS)
By Deleting 415 Pacific Coast Highway From The
List Of critical Facilities
INTRODUCTION
city staff has requested the City Attorney to prepare an ordinance
which would amend Ordinance Number 1737 (CCS) to remove 415 Pacific
Coast Highway from the list of critical facilities contained in
Municipal Code Section 8.04.230 and in Ordinance 1737 (CCS). The
requested ordinance accompanies this report.
DISCUSSION
As a result of updating the disaster preparedness section of the
Safety Element, City Staff evaluated the buildings to be identified
as critical facilities. 415 Pacific Coast Highway was identified
as a critical facility in protectlng the health and safety of the
residents of santa Monica in case of a disaster and was lncluded in
Ordinance No. 1737 which identifies City facilities that must be
repaired and retrofitted to the critical facilities standard as
defined by the 1991 Uniform Building Code. In conjunction with the
Safety Element, staff is recommending that 415 pacift:cB 21aiis
Hlghway be removed from the list of critical facilities by amending
the findings contained in Section 1, Paragraph (i) of ordinf~~e ~~ .1995
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1737 and amending Santa Monica Municipal Code section 8.04.220,
added by ordinance No. 1737/ which designates critical facilities
within the City. staff has based this recommendation on the extent
of damage sustained to this facility in the 1994 Northridge
Earthquake as well as a re-evaluation of the overall purpose that
this facility could serve in the event of a major disaster.
RECOMMENDATION
It is respectfully recommended that the accompanying ordinance by
introduced for first reading.
PREPARED BY: Marsha Jones Moutrie, city Attorney
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city council Meeting 2-14-95
Santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER
(City Council Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA MONICA AMENDING SECTION 1 OF
ORDINANCE NUMBER 1737 (CCS) REGARDING
REPAIR CRITERIA AND RETROFITTING STANDARDS
FOR CRITICAL FACILITIES AND AMENDING
MUNICIPAL CODE SECTION 8.04.230
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES HEREBY
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1 .
Section 1 of Ordinance 1737 (CCS) is hereby
amended to read as follows:
SECTION 1. Findings. The city council
finds that each of the facilities listed in
thlS Section serves an essential governmental
purpose and provides essential governmental
services that are critical to protect the
health, safety, and welfare of the citizens of
Santa Monica and to preserve the public peace
in the event of a natural disaster, for the
reasons set forth below:
(a) The Santa Monica Police Department
and the Santa Monica City Hall, located at
1685 Main Street, house the City's Emergency
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Operations Command Center ("EOe") and other
governmental offices which have first line
responsibility in providing essential
governmental services to the City to preserve
the health, safety and welfare of its citizens
in the event of a major disaster.
(b) The Santa Monica Municipal Airport,
located at 3200 Airport Avenue, including but
not limited to 1ts Administration building,
Airfield Maintenance Building, fixed base
operator building, runway, and control tower,
is the staging area for the Emergency
Volunteer Air Corps which is charged with
providing emergency air transportation to the
city's emergency workers to bring them to the
City in the event of a major disaster, is one
of the mass storage locations for emergency
shelter supplies, is a staging area for
emergency suppl ies and heavy equipment, and
has been designated a mass care shelter and a
casualty collection point for triage and
initial emergency medical treatment.
(c) The Santa Monica Animal Shelter,
located at 1640 9th street, is charged with
the handling and caring of animals which
cannot be housed in emergency shelters and
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animals which pose a health and safety threat
to the community.
(d) The Santa Monica Civic Auditorium
and adjacent parking lot, located at 1855 Main
street, has been identified in the City's
Emergency Plan as providing emergency
functions including the feeding of emergency
workers, the sheltering of displaced disaster
victims, the staging of emergency equipment,
vehicles and personnel; and is a designated
emergency supply distribution site.
(e) The Santa Monica Ken Edwards Center,
located at 1527 4th street, is the City's
alternate Emergency operations Command Center
location and has also been designated to serve
as a community emergency assistance center.
(f) The Santa Monica Main Library,
located at 1343 6th Street, is the designated
family care facility for emergency workers
whose families have been impacted by the
disaster and require emergency sheltering
services so that emergency workers may staff
the Emergency Operations Command Center
knowing that their children will be safe and
cared for.
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(g) The Santa Monica Public Works Yard,
located at 2500 Michigan Avenue, and the
Transfer station, located at 2401 Delaware
Avenue, provide emergency support services
including debris removal, traffic control,
fleet maintenance, public facilities
maintenance, electrical and radio repair,
utility management and restoration, solid
waste management and other vi tal emergency
response services.
(h) The Santa Monica Fire Training
CenterJ located at 2500 Michigan Avenue,
houses the Fire Department's Support Services
Division, which is directly responsible for
managing the City's Emergency Services Program
and provides immediate response to the City
following a disaster.
(i) The structures located ln the
following Santa Monlca Recreation and Park
facilities have been identified in the City'S
Emergency Response Plan and by the City as
locations for emergency community services
including emergency mass care shelters, first
aid stations, disaster service centers and
emergency supply and information distribution
points:
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Lincoln Park (except Miles Playhouse)
Lincoln and Wilshire Boulevards
Marine Park
16th and Marine streets
(also a child care center)
Memorial Park
14th street and Olympic Boulevard
(also a Casualty Collection Point)
Virginia Park
2200 Virginia Avenue
Police Activity League
1401 Olympic Boulevard
senior Recreation Center
1450 Ocean Avenue
(j) The Santa Monica Municipal Bus
Lines, located in the Grounds and Maintenance
Building
at
1620
6th
street
and
the
Transportation Administration Building at 1660
7th
street,
are
charged
with
the
responsibility
of
providing
emergency
transportation
for
evacuations;
the
Adrnlnistration Building has been designated to
shelter the families of Santa Monica Municipal
Bus Lines employees; the
Administration
Building houses the Transportation Dispatch
Center, which is the communications center for
the
dispatch
of
emergency
public
transportation and which provides emergency
radio
communication
regarding
emergency
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transportation routes to the Fire Department
and to the Police Department and backup
reporting of damage assessment information;
the Administration Building also houses the
Santa Monica Police Department Office of
Special Enforcement which will function as a
police substation during a disaster.
(k) Moss Avenue Sewer Pumping Station,
located at 1601 Appian Way, Arcadia Water
Treatment Plant, located at 1228 South Bundy
Avenue, Los Angeles, Charnock Pumping station,
located at 11375 Westminster, Los Angeles, Mt.
Olivette Reservoir, located at 930 Franklin
Street, Santa Monica, and Riviera Golf Course
Reservoir, located at 1252 Capri Drive, Los
Angeles, have been designated as critical
lifeline facilities in the Technical
Background Report to the Safety Element of the
Santa Monica General Plan, commonly known as
the Seismic Safety Element, because they
provide water for drinking and emergency
response operations I sewage processing, and
water processing.
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SECTION 2.
Santa Monica Municipal Code section 8.04.230 is
hereby amended to read as follows:
8.04.230. critical Facilities.
Division 1.00.
Desiqnation of critical
Facilities.
The following facilities are
designated as critical facilities which are
necessary for emergency operations subsequent
to a natural disaster: Santa Monica Police
Department, Santa Monica city Hall, Santa
Monica
Municipal
Airport
Administration
Building, Airfield Maintenance Building, fixed
base operator building, runway and control
tower, Santa Monica Animal Shelter, Santa
Monica civic Auditorium, the Ken Edwards
Center, Santa Monica Main Library, Santa
Monica Public Works Yard, Santa Monica
Transfer station, Santa Monica Fire Training
Center, the structures located in the Santa
Monica Recreation and Park facilities at ~
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Lincoln Park except
Miles Playhouse, Marine Park, Memorial park,
and Virginia Park, Police Activity League,
Senior
Recreation
Center,
Santa
Monica
Municipal Bus Lines Grounds and Maintenance
Building and Administration Building, Moss
Avenue Sewer Pumping Station, Arcadia Water
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Treatment Plant, Charnock Pumping station, Mt.
Olivette Reservoir, and Riviera Golf Course
Reservoir.
Division 200. Analysis and Repair of
Critical Facilities Subsequent to a Natural
Disaster. When any critical facility located
in the City of Santa Monica is damaged in
excess of Twenty-Five Thousand Dollars
($25,000.00) as a result of a natural
disaster, such critical facility shall be
analyzed, designed, repaired and upgraded to
the same design and performance standards
applicable to an essential facility in
compliance with the UBC, including, but not
limited to, Part III-Earthquake Design,
commencing at Section 2330 of the UBC, adopted
by the City in effect at the time the analysis
is conducted, or, in the event that a building
permi t is issued for repairs, then the UBC
adopted by the City in effect at the time the
building permit for such repairs is issued,
whichever is later.
SECTION 3. Any provisions 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,
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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
unconsti tutional 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
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 newspaper
within 15 days after its adoption.
effective 30 days from its adoption.
This Ordinance shall become
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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MARSHA JON S MOUTRIE
city Attor ey
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