HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 0712ORDINANCE N0, 712
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 1926, SUBSECTION D, OF THE ORDINANCE CODE OF
THE CITY OF BURLINGA1,1E REGULATING PERMISSIVE USES AND PROVIDING FOR
BUILDING REGULATIONS, LOT LIMITATIONS AND LOT REQUIREMENTS AND HEIGHT
LIMITATIONS IN R-1 (FIRST RESIDENTIAL) DISTRICTS
The City Council of the City of Burlingame does ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. Subsection D of Section 1926 of the Ordinance Code of the
City of Burlingame is hereby amended to read and provide as follows:
"Section 1926
D. Lot limitatiogs and lot requirements
1. Lots must have an average width of not less than 50 feet and
all lots or parcels of land shall have a frontage on a public street of not
less than 50 feet except that lots which face on the curve of a curved street
where the radius of such curvature is less than 45 feet may have a lesser
frontage but not less than 30 feet.
2. On the map attached hereto, all lots shown in white shall have
an area of not less than 5000 square feet; all lots shown within a border of
horizontal cross—hatching shall have an area of not less than 7000 square feet;
and all lots shown within a border of vertical cross—hatching shall have an
area of not less than 10,000 square feet.
3. Where frontage on a public street is impossible or impractical,
the Planning Commission may recommend an easement or easements providing
ingress from and egress to a public street in lieu of such street frontage.
In any such case, the City of Burlingame shall be made an owner of such easement
An offer of grant or dedication of any such easement made to
the City Council shall be referred by it to the Planning Commission which shall
recommend the acceptance or denial of such offer to the City Council. Recom—
mendations of acceptance may be conditional. The City Council shall not accept
or refuse to accept any such offer until it has received and considered the
recommendation of the Planning Commission,
The provisions of this subsection shall not apply to Public
Service Easements as such easements are defined by Section 50432 of the
California Government Code.
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4. Variances may be granted to the provisions of subsections 1.
and 2, above in accordance with the provisions of Article 50, Division 8 of
this code.
5. The average width, lot frontage, and minimum areas provided
for in subsections 1. and 2. above shall not apply to any lot or parcel of land
of smaller dimensions appearing of record in the Office of the County Recorder
of the County of San Mateo, or of the City Engineer of the City of Burlingame,
prior to June 18, 1958. No building permit shall be issued after said date
for the construction of any building on any lot divided or subdivided which
does not comply with the minimum requirements set forth above, except as varied
by subsections 3. or 4. of this section.
6. The provisions of subsections D1 through D4, inclusive, shall
apply to lands hereafter subdivided in accordance with the provisions of the
Subdivision Map Act of the State of California; provided, however, that the
Planning Commission and the City Council may, in the consideration and acceptan(
of any tentative or final map submitted pursuant to the provisions of said
Subdivision Map Act, approve or accept any such tentative or final map wherein
one or more lots or parcels of land do not conform to all of the provisions of
subsections D1 through D4, when the Planning Commission and the City Council
find that by reason of exceptional or extraordinary circumstances the approval
or acceptance of such maps will not adversely affect the comprehensive zoning
plan of the city.
7. No lands annexed to the City of Burlingame after
May 31 , 1960 , which are thereupon classified for residential
uses, shall be divided into lots having an area of less than 10,000 square
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feet each," �
SECTION 2. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or
portion of this ordinance is for any reason held invalid or unconstitutional
by any court of competent jurisdiction, such portion shall be deemed a separate,i
distinct and independent provision and such holding shall not affect the
validity of the remaining portions.
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SECTION 3. Any section, part of a section, of this code in conflict
herewith is hereby repealed.
SECTION 4. This ordinance shall be published -)once as required by law.
YOR
I, Herbert K. Ihite, City Clerk, do hereby certify that the foregoing
ordinance was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the
4th day of April , 1960, and adopted thereafter at a
regular meeting of the City Council held on the 2nd day of MaZ ,
19602 by the following vote:
Ayes: Councilmen: Byrd—TAorgan—Johnson—Rooth—Lorenz
Noes: Councilmen: None
Absent Councilmen: None
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City Clerk