HomeMy WebLinkAbout499ORDINANCE NO. 499
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF IRWINDALE ADOPTING INTERIM ZONING
REGULATIONS PURSUANT TO THE PROVISIONS OF
CALIFORNIA GOVERNMENT CODE § 65858(a) AND
MAKING FINDINGS IN SUPPORT THEREOF.
A. Recitals.
(i)Heretofore, the City Council of the City of Irwindale adopted its Title
17 setting forth the applicable planning and zoning regulations for the City of Irwindale.
(Hereinafter said Title 17 shall be referred to as the "Zoning Ordinance.")
(ii)City staff has recently commenced an examination of the existing
Zoning Ordinance as the same pertains to existing and potential development affecting
the City of Irwindale. Such examination has revealed that there are areas within the City
which do not provide a stable transition of densities and/or uses and may be incompatible,
both internally and with adjacent zones and uses.
(iii)Recent applications for outdoor advertising structures/billboards
under Chapter 17.72 of the Zoning Ordinance required analysis of the proper land use
restrictions, conditions and requirements for such uses. Said analysis reveals that such
uses are, or may be, permitted in the City without proper land use controls, thereby
creating the potential for an overconcentration of such uses, together with visual blight.
(iv)In recognition of the need for effective long-range planning criteria,
the City Council has directed staff of the City to study and formulate amendments to the
Zoning Ordinance to assure adequate local review of, development standards for, and
appropriate permitted areas within the City, pending the adoption of modifications to
zoning and development criteria, for such-uses.
(v)The granting of land use approvals and/or building peunits for such
proposed land uses may not conform to the General Plan or development approval
scheme and would contradict the specific purposes of such Zoning Ordinance
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amendments as related to consistency with the General Plan. Moreover, pending the
completion of such amendments, it is foreseeable that further development or land use
proposals for property will be sought or submitted which would contradict the ultimate
goals of the proposed Zoning Ordinance amendments and the adopted General Plan.
(vi) This Council is concerned about the creation of orderly and balanced
development within the City. Accordingly, to protect the integrity of the General Plan
and to assure the continued development stability of properties within the City, this
Council finds it is necessary to establish interim zoning policies to allow City staff the
time necessary to investigate and formulate the above-referenced Zoning Ordinance
amendments.
All legal prerequisites prior to the adoption of this Ordinance have
occurred.
B. Ordinance.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF IRWINDALE DOES ORDAIN
AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. The City Council hereby specifically finds that all the facts set
forth in the Recitals, Part A, of this Ordinance are true and correct.
Section 2. The City Council further finds as follows:
a.The City has adopted a General Plan for development in the
City. The ultimate goal of the General Plan is to provide a balanced and unified plan of
development within the City and protect the economic, social and cultural welfare of
persons and properties within the City. The current Zoning Ordinance does not provide
sufficient standards for City staff, Planning Commission or City Council to recommend
upon or review applications for the approval, or determination, of appropriate land use
-regulations -periaining-to outdoor advertising-structures/bi-llboards-as-spec i fied -in Chapter
17.72 of the Zoning Ordinance ("such land uses" hereinafter).
b.The present recommendation or approval of such land uses may
contradict the ultimate goals and objectives of the General Plan and would not be subject
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to adequate local regulation and/or review under the current provisions of the Zoning
Ordinance.
c. The approval of such land uses under the current provisions of
the Zoning Ordinance would result in an immediate threat to the public health, safety or
welfare of persons and property within the City of Irwindale.
Section 3. Any and all land uses encompassed within the provisions of
Chapter 17.72 of the Zoning Ordinance shall be, and the same hereby are, prohibited, in
their entirety, in all zones within the City of Irwindale and no application for any such
land use shall be accepted by the City or processed or acted upon.
Section 4. This Ordinance is enacted under the authority of California
Government Code § 65858(a) and shall be of no further force and effect forty-five (45)
days from the date of adoption of this Ordinance, unless the City Council has extended
this Ordinance in the manner as provided in said § 65858(a).
Section 5. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Ordinance
and shall cause the same to be published as required by law.
ADOPTED AND APPROVED this 16thday of November
1995.
Julian A. Miranda, Mayor
Camille Diaz, Deputy
I, D-AVID-r.-eA-RETT-0-, City Clerk of the City of Irwindale, do hereby
certify that the foregoing Ordinance was introduced and passed at a regular meeting of
the City Council of the City of Irwindale held on the 16th day of November
1995, by the following vote:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Tapia, P. Miranda, Breceda, Chavez,
Mayor J. Miranda
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSTAINED: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ATTEST:
Camille Diaz, Deputy -I avid*.-earettcr, City Clerk of the
City of Irwindale
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