HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 0982ORDINANCE NO. 982
E:{TENDING INTERIM URGENCY ZONING ORDINANCE NO. 971
AMENDING 525.70.030 (b) TITLE 25 (ZONING) OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE
REGULATING OFF-STREET PARKING REQUIREMENTS FOR APARTMENTS AND
APARTMENT HOTELS
E M E R G E N C Y
The City Council of the City of Burlingame does ordain
as follows:
SECTION 1. HEARING AND FINDINGS. After notice purs
to Government Code X65856 and public hearing, the City Council of
the City of Burlingame finds that parking studies which were
tiated by its order and set forth in Ordinance No. 971 entitled:
"INTERIM URGENCY ZONING ORDINANCE AMENDING
§25.70.030 (b), TITLE 25 (ZONING) OF THE
MUNICIPAL CODE REGULATING OFF-STREET PARKING
REQUIREMENTS FOR APARTMENTS AND APARTMENT
HOTELS"
adopted
ordinance are hereby extended to March 6, 1974
by this Council
on November 6, 1972,
have been commenced
and are
continuing and
will not be completed
on March 6, 1973,
when said
Ordinance No.
971 will expire. It
is further found
that it
is necessary to
protect the public interest,
health,
safety
and welfare to continue
the provisions
of Ordinance No. 97
for a further
period of
time. Therefore, the
provisions of said
SECTION 2. URGENCY. It is hereby declared that this
ordinance is an ordinance for the imm
ediate preservation of the
public peace, safety, health and welfare, and is an emergency
measure as provided by law and shall take effect upon its final
passage.
The facts constituting such urgency are as follows:
There are extensive areas of the City presently zoned as R-3
(Third Residential) Districts. Private redevelopment is occurr
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in these and other areas of the City by the demolition of single
family dwellings and the construction of new apartment buildings;
the present off-street parking provisions require only six (6)
off-street parking spaces for an apartment building containing six''
(6) dewlling units; many existing streets in these areas are old
and narrow and are presently used extensively for the parking of
vehicles overnight and traffic flow is thereby obstructed, there
is no local public transportation system in the City of Burlingame;;
and the number of motor vehicles is increasing more rapidly than
the population; the Parking Commission has formally recommended
to this Council that off-street parking regulations be amended to
require no less than 1.5 parking spaces for each dwelling unit;
a like recommendation was made to this Council by the Planning
Commission on an interim basis pending a study by it of parking -
space requirements for multi -family units, whereupon the matter
was referred to the Planning Commission by this Council for study.'',
After proceedings, including public hearings, duly and regularly
had, the Planning Commission completed its study and made its
recommendation to this Council by its Resolution 10-72 entitled
"Recommending Amendment to the Off -Street Parking Regulations for
Apartments and Apartment Hotels", adopted December 11, 1972. Upon;
receipt of the Planning Commission's recommendations as set forth
in said resolution, and after consideration, this Council on
January 2, 1973, referred certain modifications to said recommenda
tions to the Planning Commission for report and recommendation
pursuant to the provisions of Government Code, §65857. No report
or recommendation has yet been received from the Planning Commission,
where this Council's recommendations are now under active study.
Additional time is requisite for further study by both the Planning
Commission and this Council.
SECTION 3. CONSTRUCTION. This ordinance is to be
liberally construed to effect its purpose and the purpose of
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Government Code §65858, pursuant to which authority 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
further 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 new use and
zoning regulations, publish the same and the same
shall become effective;
(2) The City Council shall formally consider
new use and zoning regulations and finally reject
the same and refuse to enact them into law; or
(3) After the expiration of eight (8) months
from the date of adoption of this ordinance,
whichever comes first.
SECTION 5: This ordinance shall be published as re-
quired by law.
MAYVR
I, HERBERT K. WHITE, City Clerk of the City of
Burlingame, do hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was
introduced and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council
held on the 5th day of March , 1973, by the
following vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEN: Amstrup-Crosby-Cusick-Mangini-Martin
NOES: COUNCILMEN: None
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: None
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CITY CLERK