ORDINANCE NO. 01-1215 

 

ORDINANCE NO. 01-1215 - "AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HERMOSA BEACH, CALIFORNIA, AMENDING THE ZONING ORDINANCE REGARDING ARCHITECTURAL ENCROACHMENTS INTO REQUIRED YARDS."

 

Submitted for adoption and waiver of full reading is Ordinance No. 01-1215 , relating to the above subject.

At the meeting of April 24, 2001, the ordinance was presented to Council for consideration, was amended, and was then introduced by the following vote:

AYES: Dunbabin, Edgerton, Oakes, Reviczky, Mayor Bowler
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None

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ORDINANCE NO. 01-1215

 

AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF HERMOSA BEACH, CALIFORNIA, TO AMEND THE ZONING ORDINANCE REGARDING ARCHITECTURAL ENCROACHMENTS INTO REQUIRED YARDS

 

The City Council of the City of Hermosa Beach does hereby ordain as follows:

SECTION 1 . The City Council held a duly noticed public hearing on April 24, 2001, to consider the recommendation of the Planning Commission to amend the Zoning Ordinance, Section 17.46.070, regarding exceptions for architectural encroachments into required yards

SECTION 2 . The Planning Commission held a duly noticed public hearing on March 20, 2001, and made recommendations to amend Zoning Ordinance, Section 17.46.070, to modify the limitations on exceptions that allow architectural encroachments into required yards.

SECTION 3 . Based on the evidence considered at the public hearing, the City Council makes the following findings:

1. Section 17.46.070 provides exceptions to yard requirements for certain types of architectural projections in order to allow architectural relief to buildings, and includes limitations on the size, spacing, and clearance from property lines for these architectural projections.

The requirement to limit bay window encroachments in the front yard to no closer than 3 feet from the front property line, and other encroachments to no closer than 30 inches, unnecessarily precludes opportunities to provide relief to existing building with nonconforming front yards of less than five feet.

SECTION 4. Based on the foregoing, the City Council hereby ordains that the Hermosa Beach Municipal Code, Title 17-Zoning, be amended as follows:

"17.46.070 Architectural encroachments into required yards.

Required yard areas shall be unobstructed from ground to sky except specifically allowed as follows:

A. Cornices, eaves, belt courses, sills and buttresses may encroach into any required yard area not more than thirty (30) inches, provided that in no case may such encroachments be closer than thirty (30) inches to any lot line.

B. Bay windows, greenhouse windows and similar windows which are no wider than eight feet, spaced a minimum of ten feet apart, and which do not create additional floor area may encroach to within three feet of the side or rear lot line, and thirty (30) inches from the front lot line, but in no case shall the depth of such windows be more than thirty (30) inches.

C. Pilasters, columns and chases for mechanical equipment which have a depth of six inches or less, a width of one foot or less, may encroach, but in no case shall such encroachment be closer than thirty (30) inches to the lot line.

D. Encroachments into required yards not listed above which are determined to be architectural projections by the Planning Commission shall be a minimum of ten feet apart."

SECTION 5 . This ordinance shall become effective and be in full force and effect from and after thirty (30) days of its final passage and adoption.

SECTION 6 . Prior to the expiration of fifteen (15) days after the date of its adoption, the City Clerk shall cause this ordinance to be published in the Easy Reader, a weekly newspaper of general circulation published and circulated, in the City of Hermosa Beach in the manner provided by law.

SECTION 7 . The City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of this ordinance, shall enter the same in the book of original ordinances of said city, and shall make minutes of the passage and adoption thereof in the records of the proceedings of the City Council at which the same is passed and adopted.

PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 8th day of May, 2001, by the following vote:

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