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City Council Meeting 4-26-88
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APR 2 6 1988
Santa Monica, California
STAFF REPORT
TO:
Mayor and City Council
FROM:
City Attorney
SUBJECT:
Ordinance Establishing Interim Height Limits,
Allowable Floor Area Ratios, and Property
Development Standards Pending Adoption of the
Draft Comprehensive Land Use and Zoning Ordinance
At its meeting on AprilS, 1988, the City Council directed
the city Attorney's Office to prepare an ordinance establishing
certain development standards pending adoption of the revised
Comprehensive Land Use and Zoning Ordinance. In response to this
direction, the attached ordinance has been prepared for city
council consideration.
The ordinance establishes interim height limits and
allowable floor area ratios throughout the City.
The height
limits and allowable floor area ratios correspond to those
identified by the City Council at its March 8, 1988 meeting as
revisions to the Fourth Draft of the Zoning Ordinance. In those
instances where the ci ty Council directed that staff study the
effects of ranges in floor area ratios, the lowest allowable
floor area ratio has been used pursuant to Council direction. In
those instances where the City Council made no revisions, the
height limits and allowable floor area ratios reflect those set
forth in the Fourth Draft of the Zoning Ordinance.
The ordinance
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references and incorporates an Area Map which indicates the
district boundaries to which these standards apply.
The proposed ordinance also provides that projects located
in the area bounded by Seaside Terrace on the north and pico
Boulevard on the south, and on the west by the Promenade and the
east by Ocean Avenue must comply with R3 development standards,
that proj ects located on San vicente Boulevard between Ocean
Avenue and 7th street must comply with R2 property development
standards, and that projects located in the Mall Specific Plan
area comply with the property development standards set forth in
the Mall Specific Plan.
The standards in the proposed ordinance do not apply to
projects for which an application is deemed complete by the City
on or before April 29, 1988. The standards governing when an
application is "deemed complete" are identical to that adopted by
the city Council in Ordinance Numher 1416 (CCS), the ordinance
governing development in Ocean Park. In addition, the ordinance
provides that a subsequent application for a project of reduced
scope may be filed for a project for which an application has
been deemed complete by April 29, 1988. However, such an
application may not be filed once the revised Zoning Ordinance is
adopted.
Finally, a hardship exemption procedure similar to that
adopted in Ordinance 1416 (CCS) is established. The proposed
ordinance requires that a hardship exemption application be filed
by June 15, 1988. A hardship exemption application must be
processed by the City within sixty days of filing.
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RECOMMENDATION
It is respectfully recommended that the accompanying
ordinance be introduced for first reading.
Prepared by: Laurie Lieberman, Deputy city Attorney
Robert M. Myers, city Attorney
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