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8/27/79
ORDINANCE NO. NS-1470
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA
AMENDING PARAGRAPH (E) OF SECTION 41-607
OF THE SANTA ANA MUNICIPAL CODE TO SPECIFY
THE YARD AREAS WHICH MAY NOT BE USED FOR
OFF-STREET PARKING OR STORAGE OF PERSONAL
PROPERTY
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DOES
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1: That Section 41-607 of the Santa
Ana Municipal Code, is hereby amended to read as follows:
Sec. 41-607. Same - Miscellaneous provisions.
(a) For an attached accessory garage, carport, or
other accessory building, the same yards shall be maintained
as are required for the main building except as provided in
section 41-606(g). Furthermore, in the Al, RE, R1, R2, R3H
and P districts an open breezeway or patio cover between a
garage or accessory building and the main building becomes a
part of the accessory building and shall comply with all
provisions applying to accessory buildings except section 41-606(a).
(b) No provision set forth in this chapter shRll
permit any violation of any setback established as prescribed
in Article VII of this chapter.
(c) Where property fronts, sides, or rears onto
any primary street, as shown on the adopted master plan of
streets and highways, the required front, rear, or side yard
for the district in which said property is situated shall be
measured from the future right-of-way line adopted for such
primary street; provided, however, with respect to the
determination of required front yard for a lot zoned Al, RE,
R1, R2, R3, or P, and fronting on such primary street, where
forty (40) per cent or more of the lots along that block,
excluding reverse corner lots and key lots, are developed
with buildings, then paragraph (2) of subsection (b) of
section 41-603 shall apply.
(d) The front yard on key lot in any residential
district shall be not less than three-fourths (3/4) the
required front yard for the district in which located.
(e) No part of any yard shall be used for the
off-street parking of motor vehicles, trailers, or boats or
for storage of personal property, which is:
(i) The front yard, or a side yard which
faces on a street, on any lot used for a single-family or
two-family dwelling; or
(ii) Within any area adjacent to a street
which is required to be used as a yard by the yard requirements
imposed by this Chapter; or
(iii) within twelve feet of the centerline of
an alley;
provided, however, that driveways providing direct access
to a garage accessory to a single-family or two-family
dwelling may be used for the parking of operable motor
vehicles incidental to such use. Yard areas other than
those specified above may be used for the off-street parking
of motor vehicles, trailers, or boats and for storage of
personal property, provided such use is incidental to the
primary use of the lot.
ORDINANCE NO. NS-1470
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(f) Any setback line or required yard, whichever
is greater, shall determine the building line.
(g) There shall be a distance of not less than
fifteen (15) feet between detached dwelling units and main
buildings.
(h) In the Ri, R2, R3, R3H, and R4 districts
there shall be no display, storage of materials or supplies,
no stock in trade or commodity sold upon the premises, no
service rendered, no professional equipment, apparatus or
business equipment or trucks kept or stored on the premises,
no person, employee, or assistant in connection therewith
engaged for services on the premises or dispatched from the
premises; and no mechanical equipment used except as is
customarily used for housekeeping purposes.
(i) No wires, ropes, beams, boards or similar
connecting material or device, which is attached to any
building or structure or to any appurtenance thereon, including
television or radio antennas, shall be attached to or connected
with the ground or any fixture within any required front
yard setback as provided for in this chapter.
SECTION 2: If any section, subsection, sentence,
clause, phrase or portion of this ordinance is for any
reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision
of any 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 Santa Ana hereby
declares that it would have adopted this ordinance and each
section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion
thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections,
subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases, or portions be
declared invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 3: Neither the adoption of this ordinance
nor the repeal hereby of any ordinance shall in any manner
affect the prosecution for violation of ordinances, which
violations were committed prior to the effective date hereof,
nor be construed as affecting any of the provisions of such
ordinance relating to the collection of any such license or
penalty or the penal provision applicable to any violation
thereof, nor to affect the validity of any bond or cash
deposit in lieu thereof, required to be posted, filed or
deposited pursuant to any ordinance and all rights and
obliRations thereunder appertaining shall continue in full
force and effect.
ADOPTED this 20th day of
the following vote:
August , 1979, by
AYES: COUNCILMEN:
NOES: COUNCILMEN:
Bricken, Griset, Luxembourger, Markel,
Ward, Yamamoto
None
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN: Serrato
ATTEST:
cL~9~K OF THE COUNCIL
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
KEITH L. GOW, City Attorney
MAYOR