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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 1046I^TTERPf URGENCY ZONING ORDINANCE ORDINANCE N0, 1 AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 25. 36.020 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE CONCERNING C-1 DISTRICT REGULATIONS The City Council of the City of Burlingame does ORDAIN as follows: Section 1. Section 26.36.020 of the Burlingame Municipal Code is amended to read as follows: "25.36.020. Permitted uses permitted in the C-1 Districts. The following uses are 1. A11 uses permitted in R Districts and subject to the same regulations and restrictions applying to those uses in their respective districts, and subject to build- ing restrictions prescribed in Section 25.36.060 of this chapter. 2. Advertising structures, where such structures are a component part of a building and used for advertising the business therein. 3. Antique. shop. 4. Automobile sales room, but excluding service facilities. 5. Bank. 6. Barber shop. 7. Business office or agency. 8. Cleaning and dyeing agency. 9. Creamery, but excluding bottling or manufacture of dairy products. 10. Dancing academy. 11. Dressmaking or tailoring, but excluding wholesale manufacturing. 12. Electrical appliances, fixtures, radio, etc. 13. Hotel. -1- 14. Pet shop, but excluding breeding pens, boarding, or kennels. 15, Professional offices. 16. Public eating establishments. 17, Real estate offices. 18. Shoe repair shop. 19. Store or shop for the conduct of any retail business except as otherwise herein provided. 20. Washing machine rental service, but excluding laundries. 21. Uses customarily incidental to the above uses, and accessory buildings when located on the same lot, provided that there shall be no manufacturing, assembling, compounding, spraying, processing or treatment of products, other than that which is clearly incidental and essential to a store or business, and where all products therefrom are sold on the premises, 22. Other uses similar in character to those en- umerated in this section, which will not be obnoxious or detrimental to the neighborhood in which they are located." Section 2. Urgency Clause. It is hereby declared that this ordinance is an ordinance for the immediate preservation of the public peace, safety, health and welfare, and is an urgency measure as provided by law, and shall take effect upon its final passage. The facts constituting such urgency are as follows: There presently exists theater buildings in the C-1 and C-2 zones of the City of Burlingame. Such buildings are currently vacant.. Their continued use as theater buildings could have serious impact upon automobile traffic and parking on both Burlingame Avenue, California Drive and Broadway. The interior of said buildings may contain serious building and safety problems due to their long i periods of non-use, and the age of their construction.,, It is therefore necessary that the Planning, Commission of the City of 'Burlingame be given time to consider the desirability of the limination of such uses from the C-1 and C-2 zones of this City, restrictions of this ordinance are necessary pending the completion of such consideration by the Planning Commission and -2- by this Council and the possible enactment of final ordinances on this subject. Section 3. Construction. It is the intention of the City Council by the adoption of this interim zoning ordinance to suspend the use of any existing buildings for theater purposes, or to prevent the issuance of building permits for any new build- ings for such purposes in the C-1 and C-2 zones of this City except for any permits for theater uses having previously been granted within said zones. This ordinance is to be liberally construed to effect its purpose and the purpose of Government Code Section 65858, pursuant to which authority for this ordinance is enacted. If any section, subsection clause, sentence or phrase is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional, such invalidity or unconstitutionality shall not affect the validity or constitutionality of any other portion of this ordinance. Section 4. Duration. This ordinance is intended to be an interim urgency zoning ordinance. Unless this ordinance is extended as provided by law it shall automatically cease to have force and effect without specific repeal when either: (1) The City Council shall enact a new use and zoning regulation, publish the same, and the same shall become effective; (2) The City Council shall formally consider the new use and zoning regulations and finally reject the same and refuse to enact them into law; or (3) After expiration of four (4) months from the date of adoption of this ordinance, or the subsequent extention of this ordinance as provided by Section 65858 of the Government Code, whichever comes first. -3- Section 5. Publication. This ordinance shall be published as required by law. pR HERBERT K. WHITE, City Clerk of the City of Burlingame, does hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was introduced and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the 2nd day of September, 1975 by the following four-fifths vote: AYES: COUNCILMEN: AMSTRUP, CUSICK, CROSBY, HARRISON, MANGINI NOES: COUNCILMEN: NONE ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: NONE HERBERT K. GTHITE, City Clerk Dep y City Clerk - 4 -