HomeMy Public PortalAboutResolution 69-929RESOLUTION NO. 69 -929
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY OF TEMPLE CITY GRANTING A
VARIANCE FOR SANTA ANNTA (GRACEWOOD) CONVALESCENT
HOSPITAL
THE CITY COUNCIL.OF THE CITY OF TEMPLE CITY DOES RESOLVE:
SECTION 1. The City Council finds and determines as follows:
(a) That an application for a variance to expand an exist -
ing'convalescent.hospital at 5522 through 5620 Gracewood Avenue
has heretofore been filed; and
(b) That the Planning Commission has heretofore held a
series of duly noticed public hearings with respect thereto;
and
(c) That the Planning Commission was unable to arrive at
a decision with respect to such expansion, and certified the
application to the City Council for hearing and determination;
and
(d) That the City Council has heretofore held a duly
noticed public hearing with respect to such application; and
upon:
(e) That the determinations hereinafter made are based
(1) The evidence adduced at said public hearing,
(2) The files and records of the Planning Commission
with respect thereto,
(3) The files and records of the County of Los Angeles
with respect to the use permits granted by the County com-
mencing in 1938 and through 1960, and
(4) The personal observations of the members of the
City Council, each Councilman being thoroughly familiar
with the area involved in the variance application and
with the existing hospital operations, and each Councilman
having personally visited the area to acquaint himself
with the physical characteristics thereof.
SECTION 2. The City Council finds and determines:
(a) That the criteria for a variance as set forth in
Section 9201 Temple City Municipal Code have been met by the
applicant as follows:
(1) There are exceptional circumstances applicable
to the property . involved, or to the intended use of said
property, in the following particulars:
(i) The existing convalescent hospital is a de
facto situation of a permitted use, having been estab-
lished by valid use permit from the County of Los
Angeles in 1938 and having been operated without
interruption to date.
(ii) The vicinity in which the subject property
is located, although zoned R -1, is replete with non-
conforming duplexes, triplexes and lots substandard
in area, and moreover contains uses inconsistent with
the R -1 zone, such as the existing hospital and with
homes deteriorated by age and lack of maintenance,
thus depreciating the area and requiring moderniza-
tion to uphold property values.
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(2) Such variance is necessary and appropriate for the
preservation and enjoyment of a substantial property right
for the reason that the subject property is presently de-
pressed in value and marginal for R -1 usage due to the
inadequate maintenance and because of the condition of the
sixteen existing homes located thereon; and because, more-
over, the applicant has owned all of the property involved
together with the existing convalescent hospital over many
years and should be permitted to expand to the manifest size
in order to properly make use of all of the property so
acquired.
(3) The granting of the variance will not be materi-
al.ly detrimental to the public welfare or injurious to
the adjacent property; to the contrary, the expansion
northerly will not affect the property owners to the east
for the reason that the same will not be noticeable to the
senses of the occupants thereof; the expansion easterly
will not be noticeable or affect the residents northerly.
The property owners southerly and westerly have not pro-
tested nor are they affected. The expansion easterly is a
de facto situation and cannot adversely affect the easterly
properties; and the expansion northerly is into a depressed
area which will be upgraded by the development. In fact,
the neighborhood will be benefitted by the improvement, by
the increase in property values, and by the establishment
of a perimeter wall as hereinafter described, thus pro-
tecting the neighboring properties by a buffer.
(4) The granting of the variance will not adversely -
affect the general plan, for the reason that the convales-
cent hospital is presently situated at such location and
there has been indication of its proposed expansion since
incorporation of the City and adoption of the Zoning Code.
(5) That the provisions of Section 65906 of the
Government Code are met as previously set forth herein.
(b) This proposed expansion has been known to the City
since incorporation and was triggered at this time by the
City's intended acquisition of applicant's property located
westerly of the existing development. In fact, equity and
fair dealing would indicate that if the City will be acquiring
some of the existing lands for future park use, the applicant
should be allowed expansion in another direction.
(c) All of the development plan proposed by applicant
involves uses accessory to a convalescent hospital. Specifi-
cally, the-nurses quarters are found to be a customary and
desirable adjunct to hospital use.
SECTION 3. A variance is hereby granted to use the property
located at 5522 through 5620 North Gracewood Avenue and on the rear
portion of property located at 5507 through 5563 North Hallowell
Avenue for convalescent hospital facilities, being an expansion of
the existing facilities.
SECTION 4. That such variance is specifically conditioned
upon the following conditions, violation of (or failure to comply
with) any of which shall constitute grounds for revocation of such
variance,
(a) That the subject property shall be developed sub-
stantially in accord with the plot plans marked "ZV 69 -283,
Exhibit 'A', 2nd Revised:, and "Exhibits 'B' and 'C' on file
with the Secretary of the Planning Commission; and
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(b) That an application for Minor Land Subdivision
shall be submitted for approval, having the effect of combin-
ing all of the land, relative to the convalescent hospital
complex, into a single lot; and
(c) That a 6 -foot high solid masonry wall, except in
the required yard area, shall be built without gates or open-
ings along the easterly and northerly lines of the proposed
addition, and that the portion of the subject property pro-
posed to be occupied by the proposed Nurses' Quarters shall be
enclosed by a masonry wall substantially of the same design as
that to be utilized surrounding the hospital complex; and
(d) That the proposed parking spaces shall comply with
City standards; and
(e) That the applicant shall construct Public Works
improvements, including but not limited to curbs, gutters and
sidewalks on Daines Drive, Hallowell Avenue and Gracewood Avenue,
and guarantee construction of said improvements by depositing a
bond or time certificate as required by the City; and
(f) That a 17 -foot corner cut -off, on the northeast corner
of Daines and Gracewood and the northwest corner of Daines and
Hallowell, shall be dedicated; and
(g) That a 15 -foot strip of property located adjacent to-
5618-20 N. Gracewood Avenue shall be dedicated for public right -
of -way; and
(h) That the use of the 16 -unit building, marked "Nurses'
Quarters" on the plot plan, shall be utilized and occupied only
by persons employed in the hospital complex as RN's, LVN's,
nurses and nurses aides and their respective spouses - -no
children allowed; and
(i) That the gas, electric and water services for the
Nurses' Quarters shall utilize a single meter for each such
utility; and
(j) That all prior conditional use permits, special use
permits and zone exceptions heretofore granted with reference
to the subject property shall be deemed, for all purposes., to
have merged into this zone variance, and after the effective
date hereof, the same shall be of no further force or effect;
and
(k) That the number of beds, including existing and pro-
posed convalescent hospital facilities, shall be limited to a
total of 450; and
(1) That all applicable City regulations shall be com-
plied with and all accessory structures shall be brought up to
code; and
(m) That this variance shall expire and be of no effect
unless exercised within a period of one year from and after
the date of adoption of resolution granting the variance;• and
(n) That the applicant shall file, or cause to be filed,
with the City Clerk, a document which the City may record,
which shall acknowledge that the owner of the subject property
is aware of and accepts the conditions set forthi:n; resolution
granting this variance, and that the subject property, regard-
less of any change in ownership, is bound by and subject to the
provisions of said resolution and the conditions contained
therein. If such document is not so filed within 30 days, then
such variance shall lapse.
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SECTION 5. The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of
this Resolution.
APPROVED and ADOPTED this 1st day of July, .1969.
Mayor
of the City of Temple City
ATTEST:
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Resolution was adopted by
the City Council of the City of Temple City at a regular meeting
held on the 1st day of July, 1969, by the following vote of the
Council:
AYES: Councilmen- Beckley, Merritt, Tyrell, Harker
NOES: Councilmen- Briggs
ABSENT: Councilmen- None
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