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ORDINANCE NO. 935
(CITY CO~~CIL 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 Ml\.P ATTACHED TO
AND MADE A PART OF SAID ORDINANCE AND DECLARING
THE PRESENCE OF AliI 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 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 with Wilshire Boulevard.
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 prop-
erty 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 unnecessary
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 material-
ly 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 Section 615 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.
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SECTION 8. This ordinance shall take effect and be in full
force immediately after the passage and adoption thereof and shall re-
main in effect until March 31, 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 25th day of
Sept~mber, 1971.
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COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES )
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 25th day of
September
, 1973 pursuant
to Section 615 of the Charter of the City of Santa Monica, by the follow-
ing vote of the Council:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
Councilmen:
Judson, McCloskey, Swink,
Trives, van den Steenhoven, Hoover
None
Councilmen:
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