Page 10 July 5, 2012 PUBLIC NOTICES ORDINANCE NO. 2024 WHEREAS, the said Zone Text minimum of one security guard. multi-family residents’ areas versus 1. Shall have a minimum lot Amendment will not have an adverse Section 5 HMC Section 17.20 public areas. size of five thousand square feet; and AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY effect, either individually or cumulatively, Supplementary Use and Bulk Re- 2. Buildings consisting of 61 COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF on wildlife or the habitat upon which quirements for all Residential Zones or more units shall have a minimum 3. Individual or grouped 2. Shall comply with Sections HAWTHORNE, CALIFORNIA wildlife depends, and that on the basis shall be amended to add the following of two security personnel. mailboxes shall be located such that 17.14 (R-1) and 17.20 (Supplementary APPROVING ZONING TEXT of substantial evidence the presumption section: they are visible from dwellings. Where Use and Bulk Requirements for all AMENDMENT NO. 2012ZA05, of an adverse effect is rebutted; and B. Access Control. A multi- common mail box services are pro- Residential Zones). AMENDING TITLE 17, (ZONING), 17.20.300 Safety and Design Stan- family property shall be designed to vided, they should be located close to CHAPTERS 17.04, 17.20 AND WHEREAS, the City Council of the dards for R-3 and R-4 Zones. accommodate the activities of residents, the project entry or near recreational B. Planned Unit Developments shall 17.25 OF THE HAWTHORNE City of Hawthorne has reviewed and but discourage individuals carrying out facilities. (Mail box locations must be have a minimum site area of seven MUNICIPAL CODE, RELATED considered the zone text amendment Safety in multi-family residences, build- undesirable activities that jeopardize approved by the U.S. Postal Service). thousand five hundred square feet. TO ESTABLISHMENT OF as designated in Planning Commis- ings, and neighborhoods is important the health, welfare and safety of ten- FORM BASED DEVELOPMENT sion Resolution PC-2012-8 and all to residents and visitors alike. Therefore ants and visitors. The adverse visual 4. Walls and other screen- C. Multi-Family Developments shall STANDARDS RELATING TO its constituent parts and concurrent the City of Hawthorne requires the impacts of parking areas and garage ing features shall be constructed of comply with Section 17.20.300 (Safety SAFETY AND SECURITY FOR applications and finds it to be integrated, following guidelines to be adhered to. openings on the residential character of the same or similar materials and and Design Standards). RESIDENTIAL AND MIXED USE internally consistent and compatible. The guidelines are grouped under three the street should be minimized. Some finishes as the adjacent building, or of PROJECTS THROUGHOUT concepts: natural surveillance, access examples of these impacts are: blank complementing materials, and shall be Section 7. The City Council finds THE CITY NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY control, and design reinforcement. walls, garage doors, secluded parking designed and placed to complement and determines that the zoning text COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HAW- facilities, and driveway openings along the building design. (Height of walls amendment set forth in Sections 4 WHEREAS, this is a City-initiated THORNE HEREBY ORDAINS AS A. Natural Surveillance. Multi- street frontages and long driveways. over three feet shall be approved by through 6 above are consistent with application to amend Hawthorne FOLLOWS: family spaces shall be designed so the police department). the goals, policies, and standards of Municipal Code (HMC) Sections 17.04 that users feel that they will be seen 1. The site planning and the General Plan and will further those (Definitions), 17.20 (Supplementary Section 1 The City Council finds that if they do something inappropriate. It design of multi-family structures should 5. Trash bins must be located goals and policies. Use and Bulk Requirements for all all of the facts set forth in the recitals includes the organization of physical minimize the number of entries into within a masonry structure or other Residential Zones) and 17.25 (C-1 of this Ordinance are true and correct. features, activities and people in ways the site. Site entries shall be located approved solid trash enclosure (see Section 8. The proposed amendment Freeway Commercial/Mixed Use that maximize visibility. It also includes: to enhance natural surveillance op- Chapter 17.54 Trash Storage). The will not have an adverse effect, either Classification). The amendment will Section 2 The Planning Department the thoughtful placement of windows, portunities. enclosure shall not be constructed individually or cumulatively, on wildlife establish form based development Staff determined that the proposed doors, and plazas; the alignment of in a manner that creates clandestine or the habitat upon which wildlife de- criteria relating to security and safety amendments to the Hawthorne sidewalks and paths so that lines of 2. The site planning of places. Recommended enclosure pends, and on the basis of substantial for all residential development over Municipal Code constitute a project sight are created; the minimization of multi-family structures shall include locations include inside parking areas, evidence, the presumption of adverse two units; and within the scope of the California large areas of blank walls; the minimiza- vehicular and pedestrian circulation or at the end of parking bays. Location effect is rebutted. Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) tion of thick foliage; the locations and design elements that provide clear shall be conveniently accessible for WHEREAS, the City of Hawthorne and the City’s CEQA Guidelines. The levels of lighting; and close connection ingress and egress. trash trucks. Section 9. If any provision, clause, Municipal Code (HMC) allows by-right project qualifies as a Class 5 Project of open spaces to surrounding living sentence or paragraph of this ordinance the development of high density, mul- (Minor Alternations in Land Use Limita- units. 3. Landscaping and plants 6. Domed cameras with video or application thereof to any person tifamily and mixed use development tions) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines adjacent to pedestrian and vehicular surveillance capability shall be located or circumstance shall be held invalid, within the City’s Mixed Use Overlay Section 15305. The amendments do 1. The entry of each dwelling circulation areas shall be maintained at all entry points and points of ingress such invalidity shall not affect the other Zone (MU); and not change the land uses allowed on shall be visible from more than one at a low height, not to exceed three and egress. The video surveillance provisions of this ordinance which can areas of slopes greater than 20% and other unit. Buildings shall be designed feet. Low planting can be used to system shall be in working order be given effect without the invalid WHEREAS, many preventive crime do not change allowable land uses in a and oriented to: define circulation areas. with a minimum 14 day recording/ provisions or application, and to this measures are available but not utilized manner that could create a potentially replay capacity. Video shall be made end the provisions of this ordinance and therefore puts a strain on limited significant impact on the environment. a. Create courtyards and 4. All building and site entries available to representatives of the are declared to be severable. public services, necessitating the need The Planning Commission reviewed other usable open space areas; shall be planned and designed for day Police Department upon request to for creative innovations that do not the Planning Department’s determina- and nighttime accessibility and visibility. support criminal, civil or administrative Section 10. T h e C i t y create a barrier for the development of tion of exemption and based on its b. Provide a series of public investigations or monitoring. Camera Clerk shall certify to the passage and safe, properly managed and attractive own independent judgment, concurs spaces for recreation and general open 5. Driveway locations, when- location, recording quality and lighting adoption of this ordinance and shall high density, multifamily and mixed use in staff’s determination of exemption. space; and children’s play areas; ever possible, should be on side streets. shall be to the satisfaction of the Chief cause the summarized ordinance to developments; and When this is not possible, design the of Police and installed within 30 days of be published once in a newspaper Section 3 The City Council finds c. Provide natural lighting main site entry with patterned concrete issuance of a certificate of occupancy. of general circulation, published and WHEREAS, development standards and determines that the zoning text and ventilation. or pavers to differentiate it from the circulated in the City of Hawthorne, or were sometimes embedded within amendments set forth in Sections public sidewalk. 7. Roof top recreational space if there is none, he shall cause it to be the lists of permitted uses of the C-1, 4 through 6 are consistent with the 2. The windows of frequently is prohibited. posted in at least three public places R-3, R-4, and M-U zones causing goals, policies, and standards of the used rooms (e.g., kitchens and living a. Carports, garages, and in the City of Hawthorne, California. confusion and conflicts within the text General Plan and will further those rooms) shall be placed to facilitate the accessory structures should be de- 8. “No trespassing” signs of Title 17; and goals and policies by ensuring that natural surveillance of nearby entries signed as an integral part of project shall be incorporated in design. PASSED, APPROVED, and AD- uses allowed in specific zones are and courtyards. architecture. Fabric and prefabricated OPTED this 26th day of June, 2012. WHEREAS, the existing design and consistent with the purposes and metal carports are prohibited. 9. Schematic site plan shall placement of parking can sometimes intent of the zones and compatible 3. Lighting fixtures shall be be posted at entry. DANIEL D. JUAREZ, MAYOR create long driveways and hidden and with other uses in that zone and that selected to minimize excessive glare b. Parking areas shall be City of Hawthorne, California shaded parking structures and lots development standards specified are or dark shadows. Prior to installation designed with attention to landscape 10. Laundry facilities shall be ATTEST: potentially creating unsafe parking appropriate and necessary to ensure of lighting, applicant shall provide a surfaces, softened edges and ar- free of doors or have large unobstructed environments; and that the uses specified do not have a lighting plan that demonstrates and ticulated pedestrian and vehicular visible and transparent windows and NORBERT HUBER, negative impact on the community. incorporates the following: circulation. domed cameras. CITY CLERK WHEREAS, this proposed amend- City of Hawthorne, California ment will modify development Section 4 HMC Chapter 17.04 a. Lighting fixtures shall c. The parking areas shall be Section 6 HMC Section 17.25.050 APPROVED AS TO FORM: standards for permitted uses making Definitions, is amended by placing the provide adequate levels of lighting; designed in a manner which allows pertaining to development standards the uses more compatible with the underlined definitions into alphabetical path of travel from the front entrance in the C-1 zone, is hereby amended RUSSELL I. MIYAHIRA, surrounding land uses; and order in the municipal code as follows: b. Floodlighting is encour- to the project and from the parking as follows: CITY ATTORNEY Access control aged; garage to the front doors of the units City of Hawthorne, California WHEREAS, the project is categorically means the creation and reinforcement and shall run through common open Safety in multi-family residences, build- exempt from the provisions of the of physical and psychological bound- c. Lighting for multi-family space and, ideally, through an open ings, and neighborhoods is important California Environmental Quality Act aries, limits and barriers to distinguish projects shall be focused downward; courtyard. to residents and visitors alike. Therefore I, Monica Dicrisci, the duly ap- (CEQA) under Section 15305, Minor between spaces belonging to residents the City of Hawthorne requires the pointed Deputy City Clerk of the City Alterations in Land Use Limitations; and only, to residents and visitors, and 4. Management /Security d. Intercoms, when included following guidelines to be adhered of Hawthorne, California,DO HEREBY to the general public. It involves the mix. in the design of multi-family buildings, to. The guidelines are grouped under CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance, WHEREAS, the City provided careful placement of entrances, exits, shall be located near the entry in a three concepts: natural surveillance, being Ordinance No. 2024 was duly published notice of the Planning Com- signs, fencing, landscaping and lighting, a. Management office(s) shall well-lit area which is highly visible from access control, and design reinforce- adopted by the City Council of the mission’s Wednesday, May 16, 2012, as well as supportive safety design. be mandatory for multi-family develop- dwellings. ment. Prior to commencement of City of Hawthorne, at their regular public hearing on the project; and Building unit density ments of 10 or more units; and shall construction on any property within meeting of the City Council heldJune means number of dwelling units within be staffed daily and be located at a e. Lighting fixtures shall the C-1 zone, the following standards 26, 2012and that it was adopted by WHEREAS, on May 16, 2012, the a single structure. main, visible point within a multi-family not produce excessive glare or dark shall be incorporated into the project. the following vote, to wit: Planning Commission held a duly Multifamily development project. shadows. noticed public hearing on Zone Text means any building or portion thereof No minimum site area shall be required AYES: Councilmembers Reyes Amendment 2010ZA04, and following which contains three or more dwelling b. Security personnel shall f. If courtyard doors or gates for entirely commercial uses permitted English, Michelin, Valentine, Vargas, the close of the hearing, adopted the units including planned unit develop- be mandatory for multi-family develop- are utilized, keyless entry is mandatory. within this classification. Mixed Use Mayor Juarez. Categorical Exemption under CEQA ments and condominiums. ments consisting of 30 or more units C. Supportive Safety Design. projects shall comply with Section NOES: None. and recommended to the City Council Natural surveillance when management is closed and/or 17.87 of the Hawthorne Municipal ABSTAIN: None. approval of Zoning Text Amendment means increasing the opportunity for unavailable in order to better serve 1. Courtyards and other Code. Residential uses shall comply ABSENT: None. 2012ZA05; and people who are in or near public or public safety personnel that may have centrally-oriented common spaces with the following standards: common spaces to be easily seen. to be dispatched in case of emergen- shall be designed to be visible to all Deputy City Clerk WHEREAS, the City provided pub- Supportive safety design cies. The security personnel shall be the dwellings served. A. Single Family Dwelling City of Hawthorne, California City Council held a duly noticed public ing fences, pavement treatments, art, ’ fault The design shall utilize Units: Hawthorne Tribune: 7/5/2012 HH-233972.paving patterns to delineate use areasterns add visual interest and reinforcesbonded, licensed and approved bythe Hawthorne Police Chief.30-60 units or more shall have a-t nomeans utilization of site design andfeatures that express ownership, includefficiency of safety services.’sit lished notice of the City Council’s hearing on June 12, 2012, and the hearing on the Project; and signage and landscaping, that aid in 1. Buildings consisting of and entry zones. These paving pat- by TheShelterPetProject.org it’s not ’ fault by TheShelterPetProject.orgs it’s not ’ faults by TheShelterPetProject.org o1648_Hdln_Death_r0.eps 108.65 Boton Bold 28.38 Boton Regular 0 tracking
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