Ordinance No. 933 - Approving an Amendment to the City's Existing Single-Family Design Guidelines As Part of The Comprehensive Zoning Code UpdateORDINANCE NO. 933
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF ROSEMEAD, COUNTY OF LOS
ANGELES, STATE OF CALIFORNIA, APPROVING AN AMENDMENT
TO THE CITY'S EXISTING SINGLE - FAMILY DESIGN GUIDELINES AS
PART OF THE COMPREHENSIVE ZONING CODE UPDATE
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ROSEMEAD DOES HEREBY
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1 . Findings. The following findings are adopted in support of the
amendment to the City's existing Single - Family Residential Design Guidelines part of
the Comprehensive Zoning Code Update.
A. On June 12, 2007 the City Council adopted Single - Family Residential
Design Guidelines by Ordinance No. 851 to provide guidelines on what constitutes
appropriate design features for large home development, and
B. The Single - Family Residential Design Guidelines require amending when
General Plan and Zoning Code amendments are adopted to ensure that the guidelines
do not conflict with the current General Plan policies, objectives, and policies or Zoning
Code development standards, and
C. The City of Rosemead is pursuing a comprehensive update to the City's
Zoning Code (Title 17 of the Rosemead Municipal Code) to further enhance the quality
of life in Rosemead, to implement General Plan policy, and to add provisions mandated
by State and Federal law, and
D. The proposed changes to the Zoning Code include revised development
standards relating to single - family homes in the R -1 (Single - Family Residential), R -2
(Light Multiple Residential), and R -3 (Medium Multiple Residential) to clearly articulate
the City's desire for quality development; and
E. The City is pursuing amendments to the existing Single- Family Residential
Design Guidelines to ensure that the guidelines are consistent with changes that will be
implemented by the Comprehensive Zoning Code Update; and
F. The proposed amendment would not be detrimental to the public
convenience, health, safety, or general welfare of the City, and
G. City staff prepared an initial study pursuant to the California Environmental
Quality Act (CEQA). This initial study determined that the proposed amendment will not
have any adverse impact on the environment, and accordingly prepared and
recommended the adoption of a Negative Declaration.
NOW, THEREFORE the City Council of the City of Rosemead, County of Los
Angeles, State of California, does hereby find, determine, and ordain as follows:
Section 2. On October 8, 2013, the City Council adopted the Negative
Declaration that was prepared and distributed for public review in accordance with the
California Environmental Quality Act Guidelines for the proposed amendment to the
City's existing Single - Family Residential Design Guidelines by City Council Resolution
No. 2013 -45 as the environmental clearance for the project.
Section 3. The City Council HEREBY FINDS AND DETERMINES that the
amendment to the Single - Family Residential Design Guidelines is in the best interest of
the public necessity and general welfare, and good city planning practice dictates and
supports the proposed amendment will provide a superior level of planning and
protection to the quality and character of the City.
A. The amended Single - Family Residential Guidelines will be consistent with the
residential standards proposed in the Comprehensive Zoning Code Update. The
adoption of revised guidelines will improve the design characteristics of future single -
family home design throughout the community. Negative impacts to existing mature
neighborhoods associated with large home development will be avoided. The
guidelines will provide early guidance to facilitate communication for project applicants
proposing new homes and additions to existing homes.
Section 4. The City Council HEREBY ADOPTS the amendment to the "Single -
Family Residential Design Guidelines" attached hereto as Exhibit 'A" where changes to
the existing guidelines are shown in green text to be added, strikethrough (black) for
text to be deleted, and black text for existing to remain.
Section 5. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause or word of this ordinance
is for any reason held to be invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, such decision
shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance. The City Council
of the City of Rosemead HEREBY DECLARES that it would have passed and adopted
Ordinance No. 933 and each and all provisions thereof, irrespective of the fact that any
one or more of said provisions may be declared to be invalid.
Section 6. EFFECTIVE DATE. This ordinance shall take effect thirty (30) days
after its adoption.
Section 7. ADOPTION. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this
ordinance and shall publish a summary of this ordinance and post a certified copy of the
full ordinance in the office of the City Clerk at least five days prior to the adoption and
within 15 days after adoption of the ordinance, the City Clerk shall publish a summary of
the ordinance with the names of the council members voting for and against the
ordinance. This ordinance shall take effect thirty days after the date of its adoption.
Section 8. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Ordinance.
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PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED this 22 nd day of October, 2013.
Polly Low, M or
City of Rose
ATTEST:
4 1o L riaM21 - leda City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FOR
ache' H. Richman, City ttorney
Burke, Williams & Sorensen, LLP
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS.
CITY OF ROSEMEAD
I, Gloria Molleda, City Clerk of the City of Rosemead, California, do hereby certify that the
foregoing Ordinance No. 933 was regularly introduced and placed upon its first reading at a
regularly meeting of the City Council on the 8th October, 2013. That after said Ordinance was duly
adopted and passed at a regular meeting of the City Council on the 22 of October, 2013 by the
following vote to wit:
Yes: Alarcon, Armenta, Low, Ly,
No: Clark
Abstain: None
Absent: None
NA &V u
Gloria Molleda,
City Clerk
EXHIBIT " A "
COMPREHENSIVE ZONING CODE UPDATE -
AMENDMENT TO SINGLE- FAMILY
RESIDENTIAL DESIGN GUIDELINES
(Available separate due to bulk)
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