ORD 294 ORDINANCE NO. 294
I/ AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF RANCHO PALOS
VERDES CREATING AN AUTOMOTIVE SERVICE OVERLAY
CONTROL DISTRICT; THEREBY AMENDING THE RANCHO
PALOS VERDES MUNICIPAL CODE.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES DOES
HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Title 17 of the Rancho Palos Verdes Municipal
Code is hereby amended by adding Sections 17 . 36 . 070 through
17 . 36 . 075 .
Chapter 17 . 36
AUTOMOTIVE SERVICE OVERLAY CONTROL DISTRICT
17 . 36 . 070 Automotive service station overlay control district
(OC-4) and regulations. The automotive service station overlay
control district is established to encourage service stations to
remain in the City in order to address the following concerns. The
recent trend toward conversion of service stations and automotive
repair businesses on the Palos Verdes Peninsula to non-automotive
service uses has resulted in an increasing unavailability of
essential automotive services to residents of the City, including
automobile refueling and emergency services. Furthermore, closure
of service stations and conversion to other uses creates an
increase of automobile traffic in the City going to those converted
uses, which correspondingly increases the need for automotive
service uses and service stations. Thus, at the same time that
automotive service uses are disappearing, the need for additional
automotive services is increasing. The tension created by the
dwindling supply of locations to obtain automotive services and the
increased need for those services is detrimental to the public
health, safety and welfare. Accordingly, the Automotive Service
Overlay Control District (OC-4) is hereby created to facilitate the
establishment and continuation of businesses which provide
automotive services in the City.
17 . 36 . 071 Applicability. The Automotive Service Overlay
Control District permits those uses which provide automotive
services to the residents of Rancho Palos Verdes and visitors
driving within the City. The Automotive Service Overlay Control
District shall be limited to the following eight (8) sites:
LOCATION/ADDRESS EXISTING GEL EXISTING UNDERLYING
:.:.:.......... PLAN LAND USE O ING DESIGNATI.:
DESIGNATION
1. 31186 Hawthorne Boulevard Commercial Retail Commercial Neighborhood
(CN w/CUP)
2. 29501 Miraleste Plaza Commercial Retail Commercial Limited
(CL w/CUP)
3. 29701 Western Avenue Commercial Retail Commercial General
(CG w/CUP)
4. 29421 Western Avenue Commercial Retail Commercial General
(CG w/CUP)
5. 27774 Hawthorne Boulevard Residential RM-8
(6-12 DU/acre)
6. 28105 Hawthorne Boulevard Residential RS-4
(2-4 DU/acre)
7. 28732 Highridge Road Institutional 1
8. 5656 Crest Road Residential RS-2
(1 DU/acre)
17 . 36 . 072 Uses permitted with a conditional use permit. In
addition to the existing uses permitted under the underlying
current zoning designations, the following uses and development
guidelines shall be allowed in the OC-4 district.
Full-service gasoline stations which provide automotive repair
services in addition to the sale of gasoline or other alternative
fuels, automotive repair businesses, self-service gasoline stations
(without full service facilities) , car washes, smog testing
businesses, oil/fluid change businesses, sales of automotive
products (e.g. , tire sales) . Sales of items such as prepared
foods, beverages, and other sundry items, as deemed appropriate by
the planning commission to be clearly auxiliary uses to a service
station.
17 . 36 . 073 Development guidelines. The following development
guidelines shall be used to review automotive service uses within
the OC-4 zone. However, these guidelines may be deviated from as
determined by the planning commission to be appropriate in
individual cases for the uses permitted in Section 17 . 37 . 072 .
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A. Lot Area. The minimum area of a site for an automotive
service use shall be twenty thousand square feet, with a minimum
frontage of one hundred linear feet on each street side. For those
properties with more than two pump islands and three service bays,
there shall be two thousand additional square feet of lot area for
each additional pump island; and two thousand additional square
feet of lot area for each additional service bay.
B. Setbacks. Minimum setback shall be ten feet from any
property line. This shall apply to any part of the structure,
canopies as well as building. Pump islands shall be set back
twenty feet from any property line.
C. Building Size. Buildings which include service bays
shall not be less than one thousand two hundred square feet
(exclusive of canopies) .
D. Building Height. The maximum allowable building height
shall be consistent with the underlying zoning, and shall be
compatible with the surrounding uses, as determined by the Planning
Commission
E. Curb Cuts and Driveways. There shall be no more than two
driveways on any one street. No curb cut shall be closer than five
feet from the beginning of the curb return at the corner of the
intersection. No driveway shall exceed a width of thirty-five
feet. Curb cuts shall be a minimum of twenty-five feet apart.
Entrances to an abutting commercial development or combined
driveways will be encouraged to facilitate good circulation.
F. Parking. Parking of vehicles on-site is prohibited
except for such vehicles as are in the process of being serviced,
those belonging to employees, and service and tow trucks owned by
the establishment. Parking is prohibited where it will impede the
view of traffic in the public streets.
G. Perimeter Walls. Walls may be required on the property
lines and along the street planted areas, if the planning
commission determines that the site should be buffered from
abutting properties due to incompatibility with adjacent uses.
H. Refuse Area. An enclosed refuse area, to be integrated
with the design of the structure, shall be provided to meet the
specifications of the city sanitation division.
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I . Restrooms. All restroom entrances shall be screened from
view of adjacent properties or public rights-of-way by solid
decorative screening, which is subject to the review and approval
of the planning commission.
J. Utilities. No building permit for a new structure or an
addition to an existing structure which adds twenty-five percent or
more to the floor area shall be issued, unless plans to bring
underground all utilities are reviewed and approved by the planning
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commission.
K. Lighting. All exterior lighting shall be so arranged and
shielded as to prevent direct illumination from striking abutting
property and from striking the occupants of vehicles passing on the
public right-of-way. Luminaries shall be of a low-level indirect
and diffused type. All fluorescent bulbs or other lighting under
canopies or on the building shall be covered with diffusing lenses
and shielded.
L. Landscaping. Landscaping plans shall be subject to the
review and approval by the planning commission. There shall be the
following minimum landscaping:
1. The ten-foot setback along the street frontages
shall be landscaped, except where there are driveways. Planting
shall not exceed three feet in height, except for trees;
2 . Eight percent of the total site shall be landscaped
in addition to that required under paragraph No. 1 above. All
landscaped areas shall have permanent automatic irrigation systems
and shall be kept well maintained. All planting areas shall be
surrounded by six-inch P.C. C. curbs, unless they have higher
planter walls.
M. Off-site Improvements. Off-site improvements, including
curb, gutter, sidewalk, pavement, street lights, and street trees
are required to be installed by the developer. These improvements
must meet city specifications. Where future installation is
approved by the city, performance bonds are required.
N. Drainage. All drainage to the street shall be by
underground drainage structures to avoid drainage across the
surface of city walks or drive aprons.
0. Paving. All areas not planted or used for building must
be paved to meet city specifications (minimum three-inch asphalt
concrete) .
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P. Signage.
A. For those sites developed consistent with the
underlying zoning, (e.g. , Commercial Neighborhood, Commercial
Limited, Commercial General, Residential, and Institutional) , the
sign criteria for the underlying zone shall apply.
B. For those sites developed with automotive service
uses consistent with OC-4 zoning, signage shall conform to the
requirements of Section 17 . 52 . 060.
17 . 3 6 . 074 Operations. The following guidelines apply to those
uses permitted under Section 17 . 36. 090.
A. Hours of operation shall be as follows:
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TYPE OF.:.�iJSIh� OF HOURS OF
DATE-:.:.:.:.:.:.::.:.:.::.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:...;..:..... S
OPERATION OPERATION
Automotive Repair Monday - Saturday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
Ancillary Retail Businesses Monday - Saturday 9:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m.
Sale of Gasoline, and Retail Sales of Monday - Thursday 6:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m.
Sundry Items, at Full or Self-Service Friday - Sunday 6:00 a.m. to 12:00 a.m.
Stations
All hours of operation may be subject to further review and
approval by the planning commission.
B. Operations permitted outside shall be limited to:
1. The retail sale of petroleum products;
2 . The supply of air and water;
3 . Auto washing by hand, where an area of not more than
five hundred square feet is used;
4 . Waxing and polishing automobiles;
5 . Tire changing;
6 . Battery servicing charging and changing;
7 . Installation of minor accessories, e.g. , windshield
blades and arms, gas caps, lamps, lamp globes, and performance of
minor repair jobs.
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C. There shall be no body and fender work, painting, repair
and rebuilding of electrochemical batteries, or other work of a
similar nature.
D. The rental of cars or trailers is specifically
prohibited.
E. If approved by the City, any mechanical car wash shall be
enclosed within a structure and shall not cause noise exceeding
fifty (50) decibels to be audible at the property line of any
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adjacent residential property. The property owner is responsible
to demonstrate annually that the car wash is in compliance with
this requirement.
17 . 36 . 075 Abandonment. If the operation of any use allowed in
the OC-4 zone is suspended for more than 180 days, and such
suspension is not a result of work ordered to be performed by the
City or any other governmental entity, the use shall be deemed
abandoned. It shall then become the responsibility of the property
owner to destroy and dispose of any and all structures and
equipment on the lot and return the condition of the lot to a
buildable site.
Section 2 : The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of the
Ordinance and shall cause this Ordinance to be published or posted
as required by law.
PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 3rd day of November 1993 .
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ATTEST:
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CITY CLERK
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss
CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES)
Ordinance No. 294
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I , Jo Purcell, City Clerk of the City of Rancho Palos Verdes,
hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council
of said City is four; that the foregoing ordinance, being Ordinance
No. 294 , passed first reading on October 21, 1993 , was duly and
regularly adopted by the City Council of said City at a regular
meeting held on November 3 , 1993 ; and that the same was passed and
adopted by the following roll call vote:
AYES: KUYKENDALL, McTAGGART, BACHARACH AND MAYOR BROOKS
NOES: NONE
ABSENT: NONE
ABSTAIN: NONE
CITY CLERK
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ORD. NO. 294
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RANCHO PALOS VERDES
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS AFFIDAVIT OF POSTING
CITY OF RANCHO PALOS VERDES )
The undersigned, being first duly sworn, deposes and
says:
That at all times herein mentioned, she was and now is
the appointed City Clerk of the City of Rancho Palos Verdes;
That on 11/8/93 she caused to be
posted the following document entitled:
CREATING AN AUTOMOTIVE SERVICE OVERLAY CONTROL DISTRICT;
THEREBY AMENDING THE RANCHO PALOS VERDES MUNICIPAL CODE.
a copy of which is attached hereto, in the following
locations:
City Hall Los Angeles County Fire Station
30940 Hawthorne Blvd. Miraleste Station
Rancho Palos Verdes 4000 Miraleste Plaza
Rancho Palos Verdes
U. S. Post Office
28649 S. Western Ave. Ladera Linda Community Center
Rancho Palos Verdes 32201 Forrestal Drive
Rancho Palos Verdes
Hesse Park
29301 Hawthorne Blvd. Rancho Palos Verdes Park
Rancho Palos Verdes 30359 Hawthorne Blvd. ,
Rancho Palos Verdes
I certify under penalty of perjury that the foregoing is a
true and correct affidavit of posting .
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CITY CLERK
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30940 HAVYTHORNE BOULEVARD / RANCHO PALOS VERDES, CA 90274-5391 / (213)377-0360