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HomeMy WebLinkAbout75-08 Zone Exception Permits11 21 5 ORDINANCE NO. _ 75-8 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA AMENDING CERTAIN SECTIONS OF ARTICLE 23 OF TITLE 13, CHAPTER II OF THE COSTA MESA MUNICIPAL CODE, RELATING TO ZONE EXCEPTION PERMITS; PROVIDING FOR REAL HARDSHIP AS AN ADDITIONAL REASON FOR THE GRANTING OF A ZONE EXCEPTION PERMIT AND STATING REASONS THEREFOR. 6 THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA DOES HEREBY 7 ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: 8 SECTION 1: The City Council of the City of Costa Mesa 9 hereby finds and declares that to make the zone exception permit 10 provisions of the Costa Mesa Municipal Code more realistically 11 applicable to situations arising within the City, an amendment 12 is necessary which will add the element of real hardship to those 13 reasons already existing in Section 13-341 as instances where 14 a zone exception permit may be granted. The City Council further 15 finds and declares that the addition of the element of real 16 hardship is not intended to exclude other reasons now existing 17 in Section 13-341, but is intended to augment situations already IS stated in said section. The City Council of the City of Costa 19 Mesa further finds and declares that its intention in adding real 20 hardship as an additional circumstance in which a zone exception 21 permit may be granted, is to provide for circumstances which 22 arise from time to time within the City and which are not provided 23 for in said Article 23. The City Council further finds and 24 declares that true circumstances showing real hardship must exist 25 before the Planning Commission and the City Council may rely 26 upon this feature of the zone exception permit provisions of the 27 Costa Mesa Municipal Code in granting relief for hardship reasons. 28 Accordingly, the following amendments are made in Title 29 13, Chapter II, Article 23 of the Costa Mesa Municipal Code: 30 SECTION 2: "Section 13-341 Zone Exception Permits: 31 Whenever, by reason of exceptional or extraordinary 32 circumstances or real hardship, the strict interpretation or -1- 1 1 inflexible application of this Chapter will lead to results which 2 may be inconsistent with the intent and purpose of the ordinance, 3 or which may be unfair and lead to injustices, or which may lead 4 to practical difficulties in land use or development, or which 5 may unfairly exclude proper and accepted uses, a zone exception 6 permit may be granted." 7 SECTION 3: Section 13-347 Conditions necessary to .Granting of Zone Exception Permit 8 Subsection (1) is hereby amended to read as follows: 9 "(1) That exceptional or extraordinary circumstances 10 or real hardship existed, justifying the granting of the permit an( 11 what these circumstances are." 12 13 SECTION 4: This ordinance shall take effect and be in 14 full force and effect thirty (30) days from and after its passage, 15 and before the expiration of fifteen (15) days after its passage, 16 shall be published once in the Orange Coast Daily Pilot, a news - 17 paper of general circulation printed and published in the City of 18 Costa Mesa, together with the names of the members of the City 19 Council voting for and against the same. 20 PASSED AND ADOPTED this 18th day of February 1975. 21 // A 22 Mayor of the City of Costa Mesa 23 ATTEST: 24 25,ODp� City Clerk of the City of 26 Costa Mesa 27 28 APPROVED .AS TO FORM 29 30 CITY .ATTORNEY-� 31 32 -2- 12 4 5 6 7 E 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF ORANGE ) as. CITY OF COSTA MESA ) I, EILEEN P. PHINNEY, City Clerk and ex -officio Clerk of the City Council of the City of Costa Mesa, hereby certify that the above and foregoing Ordinance--py�yo�. 7S 8 was introduced and considered section by section at a°elff3r meeting of said City Council held on the 2yd day of 1975 and thereafter passed and adopted as a whole ata re ula meeting of said City Council held on the [&, day of 1975 by the following roll call vote: AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: )UM % ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: X"'a. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereby set my hand And,affixed the Seal of the City of Costa Mesa this _/U day of 1975. if -3- p City Clerk and ex -officio C rk of the City Council of the Wity of Costa Mesa :AXED AS TO FORM LA— ............ -- r A RNEY