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City Council Meeting 6-28-05 Santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER 2159 (CCS)
(City Council Series)
AN INTERIM ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA
MONICA ALLOWING ADMINISTRATIVE APPROVAL OF THE NUMBER AND TYPE
OF DRIVEWAYS REQUIRED FOR PARKING STRUCTURES WITH OVER 40
PARKING SPACES IN MUL TI-FAMIL Y, COMMERCIAL, AND
INDUSTRIAL DISTRICTS IN THE CITY
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA MONICA DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Findings and Purpose. The City Council finds and declares:
(a) The City of Santa Monica is concerned with the efficient, effective and safe
circulation of vehicles and pedestrians both inside parking areas and within the public
right-of-way.
(b) Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 9.04.10.08.100 provides discretion to
transportation staff to determine the number of driveways for projects providing over 80
parking spaces, but mandates two double driveways for projects providing between 41 and
80 parking spaces in multi-family, commercial and industrial districts.
(c) When evaluating and approving a design for a parking lot or structure which
contains over 80 parking spaces, the Transportation Management Division assesses
whether the design provides for the efficient, effective, and safe circulation of both vehicles
and pedestrians.
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(d) Each additional entrance or exit from a parking structure into the public right-ot-
way creates an additional point of conflict between vehicles, bicyclists or pedestrians in the
street or alley.
(e) Each additional entrance or exit also requires an additional curb-cut which
reduces on-street parking.
(t) Fewer entrances and exits from parking structures into the public right-of-way
create fewer points of conflict between vehicles, bicycles and pedestrians.
(g) The current Zoning Ordinance provision can require applicants with projects
providing 41 and 80 spaces to propose more driveways than are necessary to safely and
efficiently serve particular projects, thereby leading to the potential conflicts and detriments
addressed above.
(h) The City's Zoning Ordinance should be revised to provide the Transportation
Planning Manger with the discretion to establish the number and type of driveways
provided to serve parking lots or structures which provide over 40 parking spaces based on
considerations of safety, efficiency, and effectiveness.
(i) Pending completion. of these permanent revisions, in order to protect the public
health, safety, and welfare, it is necessary on an interim basis to change current
development standards as they relate to the number and type of driveways provided to
serve parking lots and structures.
(j) Based on the reasons described above, there exists a current and immediate
threat to the public safety, health, and welfare should this interim ordinance no~ be
adopted. Consequently, it is necessary for this ordinance to establish on an interim basis
the following development standards.
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SECTION 2. Drivewavs. The minimum number and type of driveway required to be
provided in all multi-family residential, commercial, and industrial districts shall be
determined based on the number of parking spaces contained in any given parking area in
accordance with the following standards:
1 to 20 spaces 1 single driveway
21 to 40 spaces 1 double driveway
41 spaces and over Number and type of driveway to be approved by the
Transportation Planning Manager based on
considerations of safety, efficiency and effectiveness.
SECTION 3. This ordinance shall be of no further force or effect sixty days
after its effective date, unless prior to that date, after a public hearing, noticed
pursuant to Santa Monica Municipal Code Section 9.04.20.22.050, the City Council,
by majority vote, extends this interim ordinance.
SECTION 4. 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, is hereby repealed or modified to that extent necessary to
effect the provisions of this Ordinance.
SECTION 5. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase of this Interim
Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by a decision of any court
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of 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.
SECTION 6. 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 30
days from its adoption.
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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Approved and adopted this 28th day of June, 2005.
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Pam O'Connor, Mayor
State of California ) !
County of Los Angeles) 5S.
City of Santa Monica )
I, Beth Sanchez. Assistant City Clerk of the City of Santa Monica, do hereby certify that
the foregoing Ordinance No. 2159 (eeS) had its introduction on June 14, 2005, and
was adopted at the Santa Monica City Council meeting held on June 28, 2005, by the
following vote:
Ayes: Council members: Mayor O'Connor, Mayor Pro Tem Katz, Bloom,
Genser, Holbrook, McKeown, Shriver
Noes: Council members: None
Abstain: Council members: None
Absent: Council members: None
ATTEST:
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