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Santa Monica, California
STAFF REPORT
FROM:
Mayor and city Council
City Attorney
TO:
SUBJECT:
ordinance Amending Ordinance Number 1481 (CCS)
to Exempt Applications for Proposed Developments
at or Below Specified Square Footages in the
Broadway Commercial District and the Residential
visitor commercial District
At its meeting on October 17, 1989, the City Council
introduced for first reading an ordinance to create exemption
thresholds for small projects in the Broadway Commercial District
and the Residential Visitor Commercial District in the city. 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
Laurie Lieberman, Deputy City Attorney
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City Council Meeting 11-14-89
Santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER 1498(CCS)
(City Council Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF SANTA MONICA AMENDING ORDINANCE NUMBER 1481 (CCS)
TO EXEMPT APPLICATIONS FOR PROPOSED DEVELOPMENTS AT OR BELOW
SPECIFIED SQUARE FOOTAGES IN THE BROADWAY COMMERCIAL
DISTRICT AND THE RESIDENTIAL-VISITOR COMMERCIAL DISTRICT
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Section 3 of Ordinance Number 1481 (CCS) is
amended to read as follows:
SECTION 3. Exemptions.
The
following
applications are exempt from the provisions of
Section 2 of this ordinance:
(a) Applications for approval of permits
invol ving proposed developments on land owned,
operated or controlled by the City of Santa Monica,
Santa Monica College, the Santa Monica School
District, or the State of California.
(b) Applications for approval of permits for
proposed developments in the Third street Mall
Specific Plan Area and in the Hospital Specific Plan
Area.
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(c)
Applications for approval of permits for
proposed developments that fall at or below the
following square feet of floor area for the district
in which the development is located:
C-2
Neighborhood Commercial
8,000
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Downtown
22,000
C-4
Downtown OVerlay
Highway Commercial
22,000
C3C
18,000
C-5
Special Office
22,000
C-6
Boulevard Commercial
22,000
CM
Main street
11,000
CP
Commercial Professional
16,000
M1
Industrial Conservation
22,000
BCD
Broadway Commercial
16,000
RVC Residential-Visitor
Commercial
The Promenade
11,000
All other parts of
the District
22,000
To the extent that a proj ect contains both
residential and non-residential components, this
moratorium applies only to the non-residential
component of such project. A project that contains
both residential and non-residential components may
proceed with an application only if the square
footage of the non-residential portion of the
project falls below the threshold set forth in this
subsection.
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(d) Applications for approval of permits
involving proposed developments for which
development agreement applications have been filed
on or before May 2, 1989 and proposed developments
for which development review applications have been
filed and deemed complete on or before May 2, 1989.
(i) An application shall be deemed
complete for purposes of this Ordinance within
fifteen (15) days for subdivision maps and parcel
maps, and thirty (30) days for all other permits,
after the Planning Division receives a substantially
complete application together with all information,
reports, drawings, plans, filing fees, and any other
materials and documents required by the appropriate
application forms supplied by the city. If, within
the specified time period, the Planning Division
fails to advise the applicant in writing that his or
her application is incomplete and to specify all
additional information required to complete that
application, the application shall automatically be
deemed complete. An application is "substantially
complete" if the missing information is supplied
within two (2) working days of the city's request.
(ii) If an application for approval of
a proposed development has been deemed complete by
the City on or before May 2, 1989, an amended
application for the same project shall be deemed
complete as of May 2, 1989, so long as the Planning
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Director determines that the changes to the project
do not increase the size or sUbstantially alter the
scope of the proposed project. This Section shall
not apply for purposes of deeming an application
complete under the Permit Streamlining Act.
(e) Applications for approval of permits
involving the erection, construction, enlargement,
demolition, or moving of, and excavation and grading
for, projects which have been granted development
permits by the Planning Commission or Planning
Division on or before May 2, 1989.
SECTION 2. 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 affect the provisions of this Ordinance.
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 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.
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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 15 days after its adoption. This Ordinance shall become
effective upon adoption.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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ROBERT M. MYERS
city Attorney
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Adopted and approved this 14th day of November, 1989.
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I hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 1498(CCS)
was duly and regularly introduced at a meeting of the City
council on the 17th day of October 1989; that the said Ordinance
was thereafter duly adopted at a meeting of the city Council on
the 14th day of November 1989 by the following council vote:
Ayes: Councilmembers: Abdo, Finkel, Genser, Jennings,
Katz, Reed, Mayor Zane
Noes: Councilmembers: None
Abstain: Councilmembers: None
Absent: Councilmembers: None
ATTEST:
City Clerk