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ORDINANCE NO. 953
(City Council Series)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CI~Y OF ~~~TA MONICA EXTENDING TO
AUGUST 23, 1974, THE MORATORIUM ON
CONSTRUCTION AND REPAIR ON ALL PROPERTY
FRONTING ON AND BOUNDED BY WILSHIRE
BOULEVARD, FOURTH STREET, COLORADO AVENUE
AND SECOND STREET, AND MORE COMPLETELY
DESCRIBED IN THE LEGAL DESCRIPTION AND MAP
ATTACHED TO AND MADE A PART OF SAID
ORDINANCE AND DECLARING THE PRESENCE OF
AN EMERGENCY.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES
HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. A moratorium is hereby placed on the
erection, construction, enlargement, alteration, repair, moving,
improvement or conversion, of any building or structure in the
area described as follows:
"All that property bounded on the north-
east by the southwesterly line of Fourth
Court and its southeasterly prolongation;
bounded on the southeast by a line which
is 150 feet southeasterly of and parallel
with Colorado Avenue and by the northwesterly
line of Santa Monica Freeway; bounded on the
southwest by the northeasterly line of First
Court and its northwesterly prolongation; and
bounded on the northwest by a line which is
150 feet northwesterly of and parallel with
Wilshire Boulevard."
A map of said area is attached hereto, marked Exhibit
itA" and expressly made a part of this ordinance.
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SECTION 2. This Council finds and determines that said
moratorium must be imposed in order to preserve the character of
said area pending the completion of proceedings for the
acquisition of said property by the City and pending a Planning,
Zoning and Urban Redevelopment study of said area.
SECTION 3. The Department of Building is hereby ordered
and directed not to issue any permits for the erection,
construction, enlargement, alteration, repair, moving, improvement
or conversion of any building or structure in the aforesaid area
during the effective period of this ordinance.
SECTION 4. Any provision of the Santa Monica Municipal
Code or appendices thereto inconsistent herewith, to the extent
of such inconsistencies and no further, is hereby suspended for
the area described herein during the moratorium period.
SECTION 5. If any provision of this Ordinance is held
to be unconstitutional, it is the intent of the City Council
that that portion of said ordinance be severable from the
remainder and that the remainder be given full force and effect.
SECTION 6. The City Council may grant a variance from
the provisions of this moratorium ordinance subject to a finding
of the following:
1. That the strict application of the provisions
of the moratorium would result in practical difficulties or
unnecessary hardships inconsistent with the general purpose and
intent of the moratorium,and,
2. That there are exceptional circumstances or
conditions applicable to the property involved or to the
intended use or development of the property that do not apply
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generally to other property in the area covered by the moratorium;
and,
3. That the granting of a variance would not he
materially detrimental to the public welfare or injurious to
the property or improvements in the moratorium area.
SECTION 7. This ordinance is declared to be an emergency
measure adopted pursuant to the provisions of S6l5 of the Santa
Monica Municipal Charter and is necessary for preserving the
public peace, health or safety, and the urgency for its
adoption is set forth in the findings above.
SECTION 8. This ordinance shall take effect and be
in full force immediately after the passage and adoption
thereof and shall remain in effect until ~ugust 23,
1974;
at which time it shall be of no further effect and shall be
deemed repealed.
SECTION 9. The City Clerk will certify to the passage
and adoption of this ordinance and shall cause the same to be
published once in the Santa Monica Evening Outlook, a newspaper
of general circulation, pUblished and circulated in the City
of Santa Monica.
ADOPTED this 23rd day of April, 1974.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ss.
CITY OF SANTA MONICA
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I do hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was
duly and regularly introduced and adopted at a meeting of the
City Council of the City of Santa Monica on the 23rd day of
April, 1974, pursuant to S6l5 of the Charter of the City of
Santa Monica, by the following vote of the Council:
AYES:
Councilmen:
Judson, Lawson, McCloskey, Swink,
Trives, van den Steenhoven. Hoover
NOES:
Councilmen:
None
ABSENT:
Councilmen:
None
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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