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ORDINANCE N0. 1205
AN ORDINANCE. OF THE CITY OF LYNWOOD AMENDING
CHAPTER 25 OF THE LYNWOOD MUNICIPAL CODE TO
PROHIBIT THE ESTABLISHMENT OF SECOND UNITS IN
SINGLE-FAMILY AND MULTI-FAMILY RESIDENTIAL ZONES
The City Council of the City of Lynwood DOES HEREBY ORDAIN
as follows:
Section 1. The City. Council finds and determines that SB
1534 permits a city to adopt an ordinance which totally precludes
second units within single-family and multi-family zoned areas pro-
vided that the ordinance acknowledges that such action may limit
housing opportunities of the region and further contains findings
that specific adverse impacts on the public health, safety and
welfare that would result from allowing second units justify adopt-
ing such an ordinance.
Section 2. The City Council finds and determines that
second units should not be permitted in any residential zone in
order to protect the public health, safety and welfare.
Section 3. The City Council further finds and determines
that allowing second units in residential areas of the city would
cause adverse impacts on the public health and welfare in that the
percentage of absentee landlords would be increased. The addition-
al housing units would exceed the density limits established by
the Lynwood Municipal Code and General Plan and would intensify the
overcrowding already experienced in the City's residential areas.
Section 4. The City Council hereby finds, determines
and declares that the immediate preservation of the public health,
safety and welfare necessitates the enactment of this ordinance.
A declaration of facts constituting the reasons second units
should be prohibited in the City are as follows:
1. The existing housing units in Lynwood are not under-
utilized as evidenced by the fact that the 1980
Census indicated the average number of persons per
housing unit was 4.2; the 1980 Census also indicated
that 22 percent of the City's housing units are
overcrowded.,
2. The City of Lynwood has forty-nine (49r) percent of
its housing stock occupied by renters; the creation
of second units would thus increase the number of
absentee landlords and non-owner-occupied units,
contrary to the goals and policies of the Housing
Element of the Lynwood General Plan.
3. In 1981 the City adopted an ordinance which permit-
ted lot coverage in the single-family zone to be
increased from. 40 to 50 percent the multi-family
,_~ __..,.~,.no ..,aG ;ncreased from 50 to 60 percent,
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5. Second units in existing single-family and multi-family
zoned areas would further aggravate the overcrowding
currently experienced in local schools. The Lynwood
Unified School District reports an enrollment of 12,057
students (as of May, 7.983). Available classroom space
can only acconunodate 10,757.
6. Second units in existing single-family and multi-family
zoned areas would further exacerbate increased demands
on already deficient public recreational facilities, as
disclosed by the Lynwood Park & Recreation Element.
Section 5. The adoption of this ordinance may limit housing
opportunities within the region; however, the specific adverse impacts
on public health, safety and welfare, as set forth herein, necessitate
and justify its adoption.
Section 6. Section 25-4.2a of the City Code is amended to
include the following:
a. Residential Uses:
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second units as P _ .
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Section 7. Severability. If any section, subsection, sub-
division, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this ordinance or the
application thereof to any person or place, is for any reason held to
be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court or com-
petent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the
remaining portions of this ordinance or its application to other per-
sons or places. The City Council hereby declares that it would have
adopted this ordinance, and each section thereof, irrespective of the
fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses,
phrases, or portions, or the application thereof to any person or place,
be declared invalid or unconstitutional.
Section 8. The City Clerk is hereby ordered and directed
to certify to the passage of this ordinance and to cause the same to
be published once in the Lynwood Press, a newspaper of general circu-
lation, printed, published, and circulated in the City of Lynwood.
First read at a regular meeting of the City Council of
5th da of JULY 1983, and
said City held on the y
finally ordered published at a regular meeting of said Council held
on the 19th day of JULY 1983.
AYES: COUNCILMEN BYORK, GREEN, MORRIS
NOES: COUNCILMAN ROWE
ABSENT: COUNCILMAN THOMPSON
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L~ S A. HOMPSON, Mayor
City of ynwood
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES )
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I, the undersigned, City Clerk of-the City of Lynwood, and
ex-officio clerk of the Council of said City, do hereby certify that the
above is a true and correct copy of Ordinance No. 2~n5 adopted by
the City Council of the City of Lynwood, and that the same was passed on
the date and by the vote therein stated.
Dated this 19th day of JULY ~ 1983.
(SEAL)
City C erk, City of Lynwoo8