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ORDINANCE NO. 936
(CITY COUNCIL SERIES)
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
SANTA MONICA EXTENDING TO MARCH 31, 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
THE CITY COL1'NCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES HEREBY
ORDA IN 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 northeast by
the southwesterly line of Fourth Court and its southeast-
erly 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 "tV'i th Wilshire Boulevard. II
A map of said area is attached hereto, marked Exhibit A and
expressly made a part of this ordinance.
SECTION 2. This Council finds and determines that said mora-
torium 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.
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SECTION 3. The Department of Building is hereby ordered and
directed not to issue any permits for the erection, construction, en-
largement, 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 in-
consistencies 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 pro-
visions 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 un-
necessary hardships inconsistent with the general purpose and
intent of the moratorium; and
2. That there are exceptional circumstances or con-
ditions applicable to the property involved or to the intended
use or development of the property that do not apply generally to
other property in the area covered by the moratorium; and
3. That the granting of a variance would not be
materially detrimental to the public welfare or injurious to
the property or improvements in the moratorium area.
SECTION 7. 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
days after its adoption. This ordinance shall become effective after
thirty days from its adoption and shall remain in effect until March
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31, 1974; at which time it shall be of no further effect and shall be
deemed repealed.
ADOPTED this 9th day of
October, 1973.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES) ss.
CITY OF SANTA MONICA )
I do hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was duly
and regularly introduced at a meeting of the City Council on the
25th day of September
, 1973; that thereafter the said ordinance
was duly adopted at a meeting of the City Council on the
9th day
of
October
, 1973, by the following vote:
AYES:
Councilmen: Judson, Lawson, Swink, Trives,
van den Steenhoven, Hoover
Councilmen: None
NOES:
ABSENT:
Councilmen: McCloskey
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