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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
E M E R G E N C Y
The City Council of the City of Burlingame does ordain
as follows:
SECTION 1: Amendment. §25.70.030 (b) of the Burlingame
Municipal Code is amended to read as follows:
"(b) Apartment, Apartment Hotels. There
shall be at least one permanently maintained
parking space in a garage or covered carport on
the same lot with the building for each dwelling
unit in the building and there shall be provided
at least one additional parking space for each
two dwelling units. Such additional parking
spaces need not be covered or within a garage or
carport. Parking spaces shall.not be situated in
the front or side setback areas."
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 occurri
in these and other areas of the City by the demoon of single
family dwellings and the construction of new apartment buildingsp
the present off-street parking provisions require only six (6)
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off-street parking spaces for an apartment building containing six
(6) dwelling 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;
the Planning Commission has commenced, and is actively undertaking
a study of parking -space requirements for multi -family units and
has recommended to this Council, after hearings duly and regularly
held, that §25.70.030(b) of the Municipal Code be amended as an
interim measure pending the completion of such study and the
making of consequent recommendations to this Council.
SECTION 3: Duration. This ordinance is intended to be
an interim urgency zoning ordinance. Unless this ordinance is ex-
tended 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 four (4) months
from the date of adoption of this ordinance, which-
ever comes first.
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SECTION 4: This ordinance shall be published as re-
guired by law.
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 6th day of November 1972, by the
following vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEN: Amstrup-Crosby-Cusick-Mangini-Martin.
NOES: COUNCILMEN: None
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: None
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CITY CLERK