HomeMy Public PortalAbout78-442 ORDINANCE NO. 78-442
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CARSON
AMENDING THE ZONING ORDINANCE RELATING
LANDSCAPING FOR OFF STREET PARKING
FACILITIES AND AMENDING THE CARSON
MUNICIPAL CODE
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARSON DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1 . Section 9162 . 52 of Division 2, Part 6 ,
Chapter 1, Article IX of the Carson Municipal Code is amended
to read:
Section 9162 .52 Landscaping
Except for those required parking facilities serving retail
petroleum outlets, all required parking facilities shall include
interior landscaping of not less than 2 percent of the area
devoted to outdoor parking. Border plantings abutting a building,
structure , sidewalk, wall or street shall not be considered
interior landscaping. Where 20 or more required parking spaces
exist on an outdoor lot, the 2 percent interior landscaping shall
be so arranged as to emphasize visual attractiveness as viewed
by the public from surrounding streets and walkways . Such land-
scaping shall be maintained with an irrigation system permanently
and completely installed, which delivers water to all landscaped
areas .
Except where determined infeasible by the Director, all interior
areas of required outdoor parking facilities which are unused
as a result of the parking design and which are directly visible
from a public street or walkway shall be landscaped and maintained
with an irrigation system permanently and completely installed,
' which delivers water directly to all landscaped areas . Such
landscaping may be included in the computation of the 2 percent
interior landscaping requirement.
Where a required parking facility is located adjacent to a pub-
lic street or walkway, there shall be a landscaped strip not less
than 5 feet in width running parallel to and along the street
or walkway, excluding space devoted to driveways and other access
points . Within such landscaped strip, there shall be erected
along its interior edge, to the satisfaction of the Director, a
decorative masonry wall built to a height of 2 to 3 1/2 feet. The
wall may exceed this height to a maximum of 6 feet, but shall not
imaair vision by obscuring more than 10 percent of the area in the
vertical plane above 3 1/2 feet. Such wall shall be tapered or
eliminated within 3 feet of any driveway or access point in order
to protect against damage from vehicular traffic. The landscaped
strip shall be maintained with an irrigation system permanently and
completely installed which delivers water directly to all land-
scaped areas . Such landscaped strip shall not be included in the
computation of the 2 percent interior landscaping requirement.
Any area required to be landscaped by this section shall have a
well-balanced automatic irrigation system designed by a landscape
architect or person competent in landscape design and shall be
' operated by electrically timed controller stations set for early
morning irrigation . Landscaping covering clayey soils and slope
areas shall be equipped--. with low output sprinkler heads permitting
Pace 210-cIrand No 78-4I"
a slow water application rate . Prior to installing the irrigation
system, the landscaped area shall be scarified and covered with a
mixture of not less than four inches of topsoil (preferably
native topsoil) in a quantity and type approved by the Director.
PASSED, APPROVED and ADOPTED this 18th
day of July . 1976 .
MAYOR
ATTEST
CITY-ICLERu
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss.
CITY OF CARSON )
I , Helen S. Kawagoe, City Clerk of the City of Carson, California, do
hereby certify that the whole number of members of the City Council of said City
is five; that the foregoing ordinance, being Ordinance No. 78-442, passed first
reading on June 29, 1978, was duly and regularly adopted by the City Council of
said City at an adjourned regular meeting of said Council , duly held on the 18th
day of July, 1978, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following
' roll call vote:
AYES: Council Members: Bridgers, Marbut, Calas and Yamamoto
NOES: Council Members: None
ABSENT: Council Members: Smith
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