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City Council Meeting 7-25-06 Santa Monica, California
ORDINANCE NUMBER2200 (CCS)
(City Council Series)
AN INTERIM ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA
MONICA EXTENDING THE INTERIM ORDINANCES 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
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whether the design provides for the efficient, effective, and safe circulation of both vehicles
and pedestrians.
(d) Each additional entrance or exit from a parking structure into the public right-of-
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.
(f) 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 lead ing 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.
U) In light of these concerns, the City Council adopted Ordinance Number 2159
(CCS) on June 28,2005 and Ordinance Number 2164 (CCS), which allow administrative
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approval of the number and type of driveways required for parking structures with over 40
parking spaces in Multi-Family, Commercial, and Industrial Districts in the City. However
Ordinance Number 2164 (CCS) will expire on March 11,2007, unless extended. Adoption
of the proposed extension ordinance will allow sufficient time for a comprehensive planning
process to revise these development standards on a permanent basis in conjunction with
the Land Use Element/Zoning Ordinance Update.
(k) As described above, there exists a current and immediate threat to the public
safety, health, and welfare should this interim ordinance not be adopted pending the City's
adoption of permanent revisions to the City's Zoning Ordinance.
(I) Consequently, the City Council finds and declares that the public health, safety
and general welfare require adoption of this interim ordinance to extend the provisions of
Ordinance Number 2159 (CCS) and Ordinance Number 2164 (CCS) up to and including
December 11, 2009, which allows administrative approval of the number and type of
driveways required for parking structures with over 40 parking spaces in Multi-Family,
Commercial, and Inoustrial Districts in the City.
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
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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 after
December 11,2009.
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
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 rega rd 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
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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 25th day of July, 2006.
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Robert T. Holbrook, Mayor
State of California )
County of Los Angeles) ss.
City of Santa Monica )
I, Maria M. Stewart, City Clerk of the City of Santa Monica, do hereby certify that the
foregoing Ordinance No. 2200 (CCS) had its introduction on July 11, 2006, and was
adopted at the Santa Monica City Council meeting held on July 25, 2006, by the
following vote:
Ayes: Council members: Bloom, Katz, McKeown, O'Connor,
Mayor Pro T em Shriver, Mayor Holbrook
Noes: Council members: None
Abstain: Council members: None
Absent: Council members: Genser
ATTEST:
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Maria M. Stewart, City Clerk