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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 1179ORDINANCE N0, 1179 AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING REGULATIONS FOR ACCESSORY BUILDINGS AND REQUIRING SPECIAL PERMITS IN CERTAIN CIRCUM- STANCES The CITY COUNCIL of the City of Burlingame, California, does ORDAIN as follows: incidental to the main building Section 1. Section 25.08.015 is added to the Burlingame Municipal Code to read: "25.08.015 Accessory structure. Any building or structure the use of which is incidental to the main building on the same lot." 25.08.340 Section 3. Section 25.28.030 of said Code is amended to read: "25.28.030 Conditional uses requiring a special permit. 1. Churches, convents, parish houses. 2. Schools, public and private, including religious or parochial schools. 3. Plant nurseries and truck gardening; provided that the produce therefrom shall. not be retailed and delivered on the premises but may be delivered therefrom. 4. Public utility and public service structures or installations when found by the commission to be necessary for the public health, safety, convenience and welfare." Section 4. Section 25.28.020 is amended to read as follows: Section 2. The following sections of the Burlingame Municipal. Code are hereby repealed: Section 25.08.170, Section. 25.08.340 and Section 25.28.050. Section 3. Section 25.28.030 of said Code is amended to read: "25.28.030 Conditional uses requiring a special permit. 1. Churches, convents, parish houses. 2. Schools, public and private, including religious or parochial schools. 3. Plant nurseries and truck gardening; provided that the produce therefrom shall. not be retailed and delivered on the premises but may be delivered therefrom. 4. Public utility and public service structures or installations when found by the commission to be necessary for the public health, safety, convenience and welfare." Section 4. Section 25.28.020 is amended to read as follows: 25.28.020 Permitted uses. The following uses are permitted in the R-1 Districts; 1. One building designed and used as a single family dwelling. Section 5. Section 25.30.040 of said Code is amended to read: "25.30.040 Building regulations. 1. Only one building designed or used as a residence for one or two families, or two dwellings designed or used as residences, each for one family, may be erected, located or maintained on any one lot. 2. Where two single-family dwellings are constructed on one lot, all the following requirements must be met: (a) Only one dwelling may have frontage on the street. (b) No portion of the rear dwelling may be closer than twenty feet to any portion of the front dwelling. (c) There shall be a yard at the rear of the rear building of at least twenty feet in depth. (d) There shall be a driveway of a minimum width of ten feet leading to the rear structure. (e) The lot must be not less than one hundred fifty feet in depth." Section 6. Chapter 25.60, concerning accessory build- ings in R-1 and R-2 Districts is hereby added to said Code to re Is follows: "CHAPTER 25.60 ACCESSORY STRUCTURES IN R-1 AND R-2 DISTRICTS 25.60.010 Special permit requirements. Accessory structures in the R-1 or R-2 Districts 2 shall be a conditional use requiring a special permit if any of the following will exist; Cl) Two or more accessory structures, each having over one hundred square feet gross floor area, will exist on a single lot. (2) Any single accessory structure will exceed five hundred square feet of gross floor area. C3) All accessory structures on a single lot will exceed a total- of eight hundred square feet gross floor area. (4) An accessory structure will occupy any portion of the lot in front of the main building; provided, where a dwelling has been erected on the rear sixty per cent 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 setback. (5) An accessory structure will be erected closer than four feet to any other structure on the same lot. (6) Accessory structures will cover more than fifty per cent of the rear thirty per cent of a lot. (7) The plate line of the accessory structure wiiT be more than ten feet above grade; provided, where the lot slopes more than ten per cent at the location of the accessory structure, the ten foot maximum shall apply only to the closest point between the plate line and adjacent grade. (8) The roof height of the accessory structure will exceed ten feet above grade, except the height may be increased one foot for each foot of separation from an adjacent property line, up to a maximum height of fourteen feet; provided, where the lot slopes more than ten per cent at the location of the accessory structure, the maximum height shall be four feet above the plate line. 3 C9) Windows of the accessory structure will be within ten Feet of the property line or any portion of a window will be higher than ten feet above grade. C10) Water or sewer connections to the accessory structure will exceed building code minimums or the accessory structure will contain any shower, bath or toilet. C11) The accessory structure will enclose mechanical equipment, excluding air conditioning equipment, which is designed to operate on a regular or continuous basis, which may be objectionable because of loudness, hours of operation, odor or other reason, and which is to be located less than twenty feet from any structure for habitation, or less than ten feet from any property line; provided such shall be allowed without a special permit if the Building Official approves the structure as adequately sound insulated. (12) Storage of household goods, tools, or equipment in the accessory structure will exceed ten per cent of the gross floor area. of the main dwelling structure. (13) flny portion of the accessory structure will be used for accessory living quarters, recreation purposes or for use in a home occupation. (14) The accessory structure will be a greenhouse, lath - house, lanai, patio shelter or similar structure ex- ceeding fifty feet of gross floor area. Section 7. This ordinance shall be published as r-equired 4 Mayor I, EVELYN H. HILL, City Clerk of the City of Burli.ngame, do hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance was introduced at "+a regular meeting of the City Council held on the5th day of flay 1980, and was adopted thereafter at a regular meeting of said Council held on the 19thday of May 1980, by the following vote: AYES: COUNCILMEN: Amstrup-Barton-Crosby-Mangini-Martin NOES: COUNCILMEN: None ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: None 5