ORD 119 ORDINANCE NO. 119
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
LA QUINTA, CALIFORNIA, ADOPTING AS AN URGENCY
MEASURE, CERTAIN REGULATIONS CHANGING THE
APPROVAL PROCEDURE FOR CERTAIN RESIDENTIAL
DEVELOPMENT PROJECTS WHICH MAY BE IN CONFLICT
WITH A CONTEMPLATED ZONING PROPOSAL, SAID
REGULATIONS TO BE IN EFFECT ON AN INTERIM
STUDY BASIS PURSUANT TO GOVERNMENT CODE
SECTION 65858.
The City Council of the City of La Quinta does ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. From and after the effective date of this
ordinance, and for the period during which this ordinance remains in
effect, and notwithstanding any other ordinance, resolution or
regulation of the City to the contrary, no officer, employee or
department admisistering City business shall accept or process any
application for a building permit for certain residential
development projects, as defined within this ordinance, regardless
of zoning district, unless and until the Planning Commission has
granted a plot plan approval for such residential development
project, utilizing in general the procedures and criteria set forth
in Chapter 9.180 of the La Quinta Municipal Code.
SECTION 2. DEFINITIONS. For the purposes of this ordinance,
the following words or phrases shall have the following definitions:
A. "Certain Residential Development Projects" means any
development intended primarily for multiple-family
residential occupancy, including, but not limited to,
apartments, statutory and airspace condominium projects,
congregate care facilities, group living quarters, etc.,
in which the total number of proposed or projected units
exceeds twenty-five (25).
SECTION 3. EXCEPTIONS. Section 1 of this ordinance shall not
apply to:
(a) Time extension requests for any previously approved
residential development project.
SECTION 4. URGENCY. This ordinance is adopted as an urgency
measure pursuant to the authority of Section 65858 of the Government
Code of the State of California, for the immediate preservation and
protection of the public safety, health and welfare, and shall take
effect immediately upon its adoption and passage by at least four-
fifths vote of the City Council. The City Council finds and
determines that there is a current threat to the public health,
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safety and welfare in that the City of La Quinta has adopted a new
General Plan and because a number of residential development
proposals are expected in the immediate future, the public interest
now requires a systematic review and comprehensive analysis of
ordinances designed to implement that plan. It is contemplated that
from such studies, which are soon to be conducted by the City, there
will emerge new zoning regulations and development standards for
residential development projects, and during the interim period
while this can be accomplished, it is essential that controls
imposed by this ordinance be maintained, so that residential uses
which would otherwise be established and developed during the
interim period will not thereafter be in conflict with the
contemplated zoning regulations and development standards.
SECTION 5. EFFECTIVE PERIOD OF ORDINANCE. This ordinance
shall remain in effect for a 45-day period, pursuant to Section
65858 of the Government Code of the State of California, unless
sooner repealed or otherwise modified, and subject to any extension
of the effective period duly enacted pursuant to and in accordance
with said Section 65858.
SECTION 6. POSTING. The City Clerk shall, within 15 day after
the passage of this ordinance, cause it to be posted in at least the
three public places designated by Resolution of the City Council;
shall certify as to the adopting and posting of this ordinance; and
shall cause this ordinance and its certification, together with
proof of posting, to be entered in the Book of Ordinances of this
City.
APPROVED and ADOPTED by the La Quinta city council at a regular
meeting held this 1st day of December , 1987, by the
following roll call vote:
AYES: Council Members Bohnenberger, Cox, Pena, Sniff, Mayor Hoyle
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
ABSTAIN: None
MAYOR
ATT ST: APPROVED AS TO FORM:
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