Page 8 July 5, 2012 PUBLIC NOTICES ORDINANCE NO. 2023 WHEREAS, the City Council of the Seat Wall be counted toward common open 4. Pea gravel or thorny be permanently accessible to the City of Hawthorne has reviewed and means a permanent structure with space, provided, however, that not plants are encouraged below first floor general public from the sidewalk of AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY considered the zone text amendment a minimum dimension of 2 feet in more than 10 percent of the required windows. the major street frontage(s) and will COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF as designated in Planning Commis- width and 2-3 feet in height and at common open space may be indoors have a minimum dimension of 15 HAWTHORNE, CALIFORNIA sion Resolution PC-2012-9 and all least 12 inches in depth. Constructed and must be immediately adjacent to F. Hardscape and amenities feet of width; APPROVING ZONING TEXT its constituent parts and concurrent of block and/or concrete and capped and accessible from outdoor common shall be encouraged. Seat walls shall AMENDMENT NO. 2012ZA04, applications and finds it to be integrated, with a smooth surface. Anti-skating open space. be provided wherever walkways abut b. The depth shall not exceed AMENDING TITLE 17, (ZONING), internally consistent and compatible. deterrents are permissible. planters with trees. Patios and perme- one half of the width; CHAPTERS 17.04, 17.20, AND Section 7. HMC Section 17.25.100, able paved surfaces may be counted 17.87 OF THE HAWTHORNE NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY Tree pertaining to Landscaping, is hereby as landscaping provided that they do c. It shall be located in the MUNICIPAL CODE, RELATED COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF HAW- means any woody perennial plant, deleted in its entirety. not exceed 40 percent of the total commercial portion of the project only; TO THE ESTABLISHMENT OF THORNE HEREBY ORDAINS AS whether coniferous or deciduous, of common open space provided. OPEN SPACE AND LANDSCAP- FOLLOWS: a species which normally reaches a Section 8. HMC Section 17.25.100, d. Public open space is ING STANDARDS WITHIN THE height of 8 feet or more at maturity. pertaining to Landscaping, is hereby G. On-site surface parking counted as a portion of the total open R-4 AND MIXED-USE ZONES. Section 1 The City Council finds that added as follows: areas shall be landscaped as follows: space required for a project, except all of the facts set forth in the recitals Section 5. HMC Section 17.20.090, that public open space will be counted WHEREAS, this is a City-initiated of this Ordinance are true and correct. pertaining to Recreational Open Space, 17.25.100 Landscaping. 1. Finger planters with a at 133 percent of the space actually application to amend Hawthorne is hereby deleted in its entirety. minimum width of 5 feet shall be placed provided; Municipal Code (HMC) Sections 17.04 Section 2 The Planning Department A. The required front yard, at intervals of 8 parking spaces and (Definitions), 17.20 (Supplementary Staff determined that the proposed Section 6. HMC Section 17.20.090, required street side yard of corner lots, at end caps. Each finger planter and e. Public open space shall Use and Bulk Requirements for all amendments to the Hawthorne pertaining to Recreational open space, required street side yard of reverse end cap shall have one canopy tree feature seat walls, sparse landscaping, Residential Zones), and 17.87 (Mixed Municipal Code constitute a project is hereby added as follows: corner lots, and required rear yard planted near the center of the planter; and provide good visibility form the Use Overlay Zone). The amend- within the scope of the California 17.20.090 Recreational open space. on through lots of all residentially street. ment will establish open space and Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) zoned properties and residentially 2. Trees which drop a profu- landscaping standards within the R-4 and the City’s CEQA Guidelines. The A. Each dwelling unit, except used properties in all other zoning sion of blossoms, sap, seed pods, Section 11. T h e C i t y and Mixed-Use zones; and project qualifies as a Class 5 Project a single-family detached dwelling unit, classifications shall be landscaped, needles or small leaves are discour- Council finds and determines that (Minor Alterations in Land Use Limita- shall be provided with open space as exclusive of permitted driveways and aged. Trees with invasive roots are the zoning text amendment set forth WHEREAS, the City of Hawthorne tions) pursuant to CEQA Guidelines follows: walkways. Landscaping, as used strongly discouraged; in Sections 4 through 10 above are Municipal Code (HMC) allows by Section 15305. The amendments do herein, shall include hardscape and consistent with the goals, policies, and right the development of high density, not change the land uses allowed on 1. In the R-2 and R-3 zones, amenities, in addition to plantings, 3. Trees shall have a standards of the General Plan and will multifamily and mixed use development areas of slopes greater than 20% and not less than five hundred square feet as permitted by this section. Such minimum caliper of 4 inches at time further those goals and policies. within the City’s R-4 and Mixed Use do not change allowable land uses in a or twenty-five percent of the unit’s landscaped areas shall not count as of planting; Overlay (MUO) Zone but had not manner that could create a potentially floor area, whichever is greater, with part of the recreational open space Section 12. The proposed established development standards significant impact on the environment. a minimum dimension of ten feet in required in Section 17.20.090. 4. The first one foot of a amendment will not have an adverse for open spaces and landscaping; and The City Council reviewed the Plan- any direction. For dwelling units located planter edge adjacent to a parking effect, either individually or cumulatively, ning Department’s determination of totally on the second or higher floor B. A detailed landscaping space may be paved with decorative on wildlife or the habitat upon which WHEREAS, The City of Hawthorne exemption and based on its own level of a building, three hundred plan in compliance with subsection A pavers and should not be irrigated; wildlife depends, and on the basis of has developed requirements for open independent judgment, concurs in square feet of open space shall be of this section and Section 17.20.090 substantial evidence, the presumption space and landscaping areas as a staff’s determination. provided. The open space for second shall be submitted for approval to the 5. The remaining portion of adverse effect is rebutted. measure to not only beautify proper- and higher floors shall be adjacent to planning director at the time plans are of each planter shall be planted with ties, but to utilize design concepts to Section 3 The City Council finds the units on balconies, the remainder submitted for plan check. The land- durable ground covers or low shrubs. Section 13. If any provision, enhance site security through the and determines that the zoning text shall be provided at ground level. A scaping plans shall show the name, Mulch may be used in lieu of plants clause, sentence or paragraph of this proper placement of such features; and amendments set forth in Sections 4 a minimum of eighty percent of the type, size, number and location of around the base of trees. ordinance or application thereof to any through 10 are consistent with the required open space shall be open landscaping materials. Planting areas, person or circumstance shall be held WHEREAS,open space design will goals, policies, and standards of the from the ground to the sky. excluding curbs, mow strips, and other Section 9. HMC Section 17.87.060 invalid, such invalidity shall not affect help define outdoor private, common, General Plan and will further those encroachments, shall be permanently Section H, pertaining to Open Space, the other provisions of this ordinance and public spaces through the use of goals and policies by ensuring that 2. In the R-4 zone, open maintained with landscaping materials is hereby deleted in it entirety. which can be given effect without the a variety of elements such as land- uses allowed in specific zones are space shall be provided for the project such as trees, shrubs, grass, and invalid provisions or application, and to scaping, and hardscape features; and consistent with the purposes and as a whole and there shall be no other suitable plant materials from the Section 10. HMC Section this end the provisions of this ordinance intent of the zones and compatible open space requirements for individual list of Approved Landscaping Plants 17.87.060 Section H, pertaining to are declared to be severable. WHEREAS, required landscaping will with other uses in that zone and that units, although private open space is located in Appendix A of this title. All Open Space, is hereby added as enhance the area by providing unity, development standards specified are encouraged, except as follows: planting areas, including parkways follows: Section 14. T h e C i t y proportion, color, and contrast through appropriate and necessary to ensure The required open space for the project and street trees, must be irrigated Clerk shall certify to the passage and the design and use of a variety of that the uses specified do not have a shall be based on the total number of with an irrigation system that includes 17.87.060 Property development adoption of this ordinance and shall landscape features such as plants, negative impact on the community. residential units. A minimum of three an automatic programmable timer, a standards and site plan review. cause the summarized ordinance to shrubs, ground cover, and functional hundred square feet of open space precipitation override mechanism, and be published once in a newspaper seating elements; and Section 4. HMC Chapter 17.04, (combined private and common) shall appropriate valves and sprinkler heads H. Open Space. Open space of general circulation, published and pertaining to Definitions, is hereby be provided for every residential unit for the proposed landscaping. shall be provided for the project as a circulated in the City of Hawthorne, or WHEREAS,the proposed zone text amended by inserting the following in a project; whole and there shall be no open if there is none, he shall cause it to be amendment will establish landscaping definitions, in alphabetical order: Common and/or private open space C. Not more than forty percent space requirements for individual posted in at least three public places and open space standards compatible shall have a minimum dimension of of planting areas may be planted in units, although private open space is in the City of Hawthorne, California. with the proposed development and Caliper ten feet in any direction, except when lawn grass. Common active recre- encouraged, except as follows: PASSED, APPROVED, and AD- surrounding land uses; and means the diameter of a newly planted provided on a private balcony, in which ational open space required in Section OPTED this 26th day of June, 2012. tree measured at 6 inches above case the minimum depth shall be 7 17.20.090 shall be exempt from this 1. The required open space WHEREAS, the project is categorically the ground. feet and the minimum width shall requirement. for the project shall be based on the total DANIEL D. JUAREZ, MAYOR exempt from the provisions of the be 10 feet; number of residential units, including City of Hawthorne, California California Environmental Quality Act Open Space, Active Common open space can be provided D. The use of plants not live/work units. A minimum of three ATTEST: (CEQA) under Section 15305, Minor means a common open space that either as passive open space (acces- on the list of Approved Landscape hundred square feet of open space Alterations in Land Use Limitations; and may be improved and set aside, sible landscaped and outdoor seating Materials, located in Appendix A of this (combined private and common) shall NORBERT HUBER, dedicated, designated, or reserved for areas) or active open space (improved title, may be approved by the director be provided for every residential unit CITY CLERK WHEREAS, the City provided pub- recreational activities. Such spaces with amenities such as tot lots, pool of planning on a case-by-case basis. in the project; City of Hawthorne, California lished notice of the City Council’s may contain amenities such such as tot areas, cabanas, multi-purpose courts or The applicant is responsible to provide APPROVED AS TO FORM: hearing on June 12, 2012, and the lots, pool areas, cabanas, multi-purpose similar improvements) or private open documentation that the proposed plants 2. Common and/or private City Council held a duly noticed public courts or similar improvements. space (including balconies); are appropriate for the climate and the open space shall have a minimum RUSSELL I. MIYAHIRA, hearing on the Project; and Private balconies shall be discouraged proposed location on the property. dimension of ten feet in any direc- CITY ATTORNEY Open Space, Common on building sides facing freeways, major The director of planning will approve tion, except when provided on a City of Hawthorne, California WHEREAS, on May 23, 2012, the means a space within a residential or arterial or collector streets; the use of the plant upon determining private balcony, in which case the Planning Commission held a duly mixed use development that may be All landscaped open space areas shall that it is not considered a noxious or minimum depth shall be 7 feet and I, Monica Dicrisci, the duly ap- noticed public hearing on Zone Text improved and set aside, dedicated, comply with requirements of HMC invasive propagator, that it does not the minimum width shall be 10 feet. pointed Deputy City Clerk of the City Amendment 2010ZA03, and following designated, or reserved for the exclu- Section 17.20.100. create problems with invasive roots Such open space shall be provided in of Hawthorne, California,DO HEREBY the close of the hearing, adopted the sive use of residents of a development when proposed near structures or areas that are not required setbacks, CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance, Categorical Exemption under CEQA and their guests. 3. Open space shall be pro- property lines, that the plant does not parking areas, driveways, or service being Urgency Ordinance No. 2023 and recommended to the City Council vided in areas that are not driveways, require excessive watering to thrive, areas. All landscaped open space was duly adopted by the City Council approval of Zoning Text Amendment Open Space, Passive parking areas, service areas, walkways, and that the plant does not pose a areas shall comply with requirements of the City of Hawthorne, at their regular 2010ZA03; and means a common open space that the required front yard, the street side hazard to persons or structures. of 17.20.100; meeting of the City Council heldJune may be improved and set aside, yard of corner lots, the street side yard 26, 2012 and that it was adopted by WHEREAS, based upon an analysis dedicated, designated, or reserved for of reverse corner lots, or the rear yard E. Landscaping shall be used 3. Common open space the following vote, to wit: of the categorical exemption and all recreational activities. Such spaces on through lots. to enhance site security wherever can be provided either as passive the evidence in the record, and con- may contain amenities such as ac- possible and shall not be installed open space (accessible landscaped AYES: Councilmembers Reyes sidering any comments thereon, the cessible landscaping and outdoor B. 1. In the R-2 in a way that decreases surveillance and outdoor seating areas) or active English, Michelin, Valentine, Vargas, City Council exercising its independent seating areas or similar improvements. and R-3 zones, no more than forty options or provides opportunities for open space (improved with amenities Mayor Juarez. judgment finds that the categorical ex- percent of the required open space hiding. such as tot lots, pool areas, cabanas, NOES: None. emption is appropriate and is therefore Open Space, Private can be clustered as common open multi-purpose courts or similar im- ABSTAIN: None. approved; and a usable open space adjoining and space. Such common open space 1. Plantings within 5 feet of provements) or private open space ABSENT: None. directly accessible to a dwelling unit, may include, but is not limited to, walkways shall be limited to 3 feet in (including balconies); WHEREAS, the said Zone Text reserved for the exclusive recreational swimming pools, tennis courts, chil- height and shall not be dense and Deputy City Clerk Amendment will not have an adverse use of residents of the dwelling unit and dren’s play areas, barbecue and picnic view obscuring. 4. Private balconies shall be City of Hawthorne, California effect, either individually or cumulatively, their guests. Private open space may areas, landscaped areas, as long as discouraged on building sides facing Hawthorne Tribune: 7/5/2012 on wildlife or the habitat upon which include patios and landscaped areas the landscaping does not prohibit 2. Tree canopies shall be freeways, major arterial or collector HH-23396 wildlife depends, and that on the basis but does not include required parking access to that area, and recreational trimmed to not less than 6 feet above streets; of substantial evidence the presump- areas, common, or public open areas. buildings. A minimum of fifty percent of the ground. tion of an adverse effect is rebutted. the common recreational open space 5. Public open space is en- Open Space, Public shall be open from the ground to the 3. Small rocks or garden couraged for developments involving WHEREAS, on June 12, 2012, the An open space designed and/or sky. elements are discouraged as they more than 100 units, subject to the City Council held a duly noticed public intended for the use and enjoyment can be used to break windows or as following standards: hearing on the project; and of the general public. 2. In the R-4 zone, recreation weapons. facilities located within buildings may a. 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