HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 0675ORDINANCE NO. 675_
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 1926 OF THE
ORDINANCE CODE OF THE CITY OF BURLINGAME
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. Section 1926 of the Ordinance Code of the City of
Burlingame is hereby amended to read and provide as follows:
Section 1926 Regulations for R-1 Districts (First Residential)
The following regulations shall apply to all R-1 Districts:
A. Uses Permitted:
1. Single-family dwellings.
2.
Public buildings,
public
parks and
playgrounds.
3.
Accessories to the
above
mentioned
uses, including, but
not limited to, private garages, parking spaces, green-
houses, lath houses, playhouses and sheds, all subject
to the provisions and limitations hereof.
4. Storage of any trailer; provided that no trailer shall be
stored or permitted to be stored on that part of any lot
or parcel of land on which the construction of buildings
is prohibited; and provided, further, that no person shall
use or permit to be used any trailer for the purpose of
sleeping or as living quarters. For the purpose of this
sub -section, a trailer is defined as a vehicle designed
for carrying persons or property on its own structure
and for being drawn by a motor vehicle.
B. Uses permitted with a permit from the Planning Commission:
1. Churches.
2. Plant nurseries and truck gardening; provided that the
produce therefrom shall not be retailed and delivered on
the premises but may be delivered therefrom; and pro-
vided, further, that no vested rights to use the proper-
ty for such or other commercial use shall arise there-
from.
3. Living rooms, sleeping rooms, rumpus rooms or hobby rooms
in garages or accessory buildings, provided that such
rooms shall not contain a kitchen and shall not become
a separate rental property, and provided further that
no such rooms shall be constructed above or as a second
story to such garage or accessory building.
4. Private stables for horses or cattle; provided, however,
that no horses or cattle shall be permitted on any
parcel of land with an area of less than 80,000 square
feet.
5. Structures, appurtenances and equipment for public
utility purposes reasonably necessary for the public health,
safety or welfare.
C. Building regulations:
1. Only one building designed or used as a residence for one
family shall be erected, located or maintained on one
lot.
2. No detached building accessory to a main building shall
occupy the portion of any lot in front of the main
building; provided that where conditions of terrain make
it impossible or impractical to construct a garage as
part of, or in the rear of, the main structure, the
Planning Commission may issue a permit to build such
garage in front of the main building.
No accessory building shall be erected closer than 4
feet to any other building on the same lot or parcel
of land.
3. Where a dwelling has been erected on the rear 60% of
the lot prior to January 15, 1954, a garage may be
erected in front of the main building but not in any
portion of the front set -back.
4. All buildings shall be subject to height, area and
garage limitations as provided otherwise herein.
D. Lot limitations and lot requirements.
1. Lots must have an average width of not less than 50 feet
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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 the curvature of such frontage is less
than 45 feet, may have a lesser frontage but not less
than 30 feet.
2. All lots shown in white on the map hereto attached shall
have an area of not less than 5000 square feet and all
lots shown on said map, which are cross -hatched, shall
have an area of not less than 7000 square feet. Said
map is hereby incorporated in and made a part of this
ordinance.
3. Where frontage on a public street is impossible or im-
practical, the Planning Commission may recommend an
easemert 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. Recommen-
dations 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 recommen-
dations of the Planning Commission.
The provisions of this sub -section shall not apply to
Public Service Easements as such easements are defined
by Section 50432 of the California Government Code.
4. Variances may be granted to the provisions of sub-
sections 1. and 2, above in accordance with the pro-
visions of Article 50, Division 8 of this code.
5. The average width, lot frontage, and minimum areas pro-
vided for in subsections 1. and 2. above shall not
apply to any lot or parcel of land of smaller dimensions
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appeaVing 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 sub-
divided which does not comply with the minimum require-
ments set forth above, except as varied by sub -sections
3, or 4, of this section.
6. The provisions of sub -sections 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 acceptance 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 sub -section D1 through D4,
when the Planning Commission and the City Council find
that by reason of exceptional or extra -ordinary circum-
stances the approval or acceptance of such maps will not
adversely affect the comprehensive zoning plan of the
city.
E. Height limitations:
No building shall be constructed, altered or maintained
in an R-1 District which exceeds 22 stories or 35 feet
in height, with the following exceptions:
1. On lots that slope downward toward the rear from the
street line, the maximum height of the structure shall
be 22 stories or 35 feet above the existing or future
curb level, irrespective of the number of stories at
the rear of the structure.
2. On lots that slope upward toward the rear from the stree
line, the maximum height of the structure shall be 22
stories or 35 feet above grade at the set -back line and
the same number of stories or height at any point of the
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structure measured vertically from ground level at
that point.
SECTION 2. If any section, sub -section, 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, distinct and independent pro-
vision and such holding shall not affect the validity of the re-
maining portions.
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 re-
quired by law.
ANDREW C. BYRD - May
I, Herbert K. 17hite, City Clerk of the City of Burlingame,
do hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was introduced at
a regular meeting of the City Council held on the 21st day of
April, 1958, and adopted thereafter at a regular meeting of the
City Council held on the 5th day of May, 1958, by the following
vote:
Ayes: Councilmen: Byrd -Johnson -Morgan -Rooth -Thayer
Noes: Councilmen: None
Absent Councilmen: None
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