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Home My Public Portal AboutOrd. 1381 ORDINANCE NO. 1381 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF LYNWOOD AMENDMENT TO CHAPTER 25 OF THE MUNICIPAL CODE'WITH RESPECT TO AUTOMOTIVE REPAIR, AUTOMOTIVE. EQUIPMENT INSTALLATION AND AUTO SALES USE AND DEVELOPMENT STANDARDS. The City Council of the City of Lynwood DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS follows: Section 1. Chapter 25 of the Lynwood Municipal Code is hereby amended for the purpose of this section to prevent harmful effects and to promote the public convenience and welfare, conserve the value of property and encourage the most -~~`appropriate-use by-requiring -review grid%or-control as set forth~~ ~~ herein. . Section. 25-16(c~ To read as follows: To this extent, the following minimum development standards would be imposed under a Conditional Use Permit for all vehicle repair .and equipment installation facilities: 1. Paving The site shall be entirely paved with no less than a two inch thickness of blacktop or equally serviceable hard surface pavement. Existing uses that are currently not paved shall conform with this requirement within three ,years from the adoption of this Ordinance. 2. Structures Entrances to individual service bays shall not face public rights-of-way or abutting residential parcels. Corner parcels shall. be approved by the Director of Community Development. . -_._., __-.._~ -.,.rte. ,u~---~.,, ==~` 3:~""' ~Hep~air Activities All repair activities and operations shall be conducted. entirely within an enclosed building. Outdoor hoists are prohibited. 4. Enclosure Repair facilities performing body and fender work or similar noise-generating activities shall be conducted in fully-enclosed structures with walls of concrete block or similar materials providing sound attenuation. All painting shall occur within an approved fully enclosed booth. 5. Litter .The premises shall be kept in a neat and orderly condition at all times and all improvements shall be maintained in a condition of reasonable repair and appearance. ~ Used or discarded automotive parts or equipment or permanently disabled, junked or wrecked vehicles may not be stored outside the main building or shall be stored in an area completely screened from view by a solid block decorative wall in conformance_Nw.ith__Sect-ion~=2.5-4-.<5-14b-,1-=~--re a~r-din ~~`'~°°T ~" ~`"°''~°-~`~` vtrash enclosures. 6. Storage Exterior parking area shall be used for employee and customer parking only,and not for the repair or finishing . work or long. term (over one week) storage of vehicles. 7. Screening A solid decorative masonry wall designed to include split block or other decorative finish, subject to approval of " the Director of Community Development, will be erected and attractively maintained along all property .lines. f:\planning\ordnance\autodev 1 ~„ 8. Hazardous Materials Management A. Commercial .and industrial concerns which receive, utilize, store, transport, or dispose of hazardous waste and restricted use pesticides in quantities exceeding 500 lbs. at anyone time, shall have access to sewer and freeways, and shall keep such materials at least 2,000 feet from the nearest area planned for residential use. B. Commercial and industrial vehicle concerns which propose to locate within the City of Lynwood shall provide the Fire Department with a list of all hazardous materials to be used at the site, a description of where and how each is stored, and how ~_ :. ., -:~r...~-.-. _.~reach : react~~n- a -.f -re : _..~_~_,_..-~.-. _ ~__. _~.._ -_ _ _ ____ ,- - -- - - C. Placards or other appropriate signage indicating .hazardous materials or wastes are being stored shall be placed on all buildings which have hazardous materials or wastes .stored. D. The discharge of hazardous wastes into the air, land, or into water resources within City boundaries is prohibited. E. Commercial and industrial concerns which create, utilize, store or treat hazardous materials or waste, shall prepare a hazardous materials and waste management plan which provides for the use of the best available technology within the production process. The plan shall be subject to approval by the Fire Department, and review by the Police Department and shall outline source reduction, treatment, handling, transportation, disposal, emergency response and .employee training methods. . -' _.v.~.~..-.~.r~:_~_. ~ ~ r, s-.:---~^~: ~_ ---,i:.~~= --._:~.~=-.-----,-"~-_..aa~-:-~'~::~-~:--x-~=i~ -~-re's;: ~----- ~=-~- - ~`---- "~'-F: v~U-s~es' which create, utilize, store, or treat hazardous waste, shall implement the best available technology for on-site pretreatment and reduction of hazardous wastes, whenever feasible. 9. Air Quality A. All mechanical ventilating equipment shall be directed to top story exhaust vents which face away from adjacent residential properties. B. Required exhaust systems shall be equipped with appropriate and reasonably available control technology to minimize or eliminate noxious pollutants which-would otherwise be emitted. 10. Landscape Seven percent (7%) of the total site area shall be improved with landscape including trees, shrubs and ground covers. Landscaped areas shall, have an .irrigation system installed. Landscape plans shall be subject to the review and approval of the _Drector _ of .Community Development.--- . . - -. _ : _~ _ ~. _.~. STORAGE OR VEHICLES No vehicles to be displayed, sold, rented, or repaired shall be parked or stored on any street or alley. The Conditional Use Permit may adjust, or add to, any of the standards. set fourth in this section when it is found that the .public health, safety or general welfare is served thereby.. f:\planning\ordnance\autodev 2 AUTO SALES DEVELOPMENT'STANDARDS Auto sales uses shall include the following development standards: REPAIR ACTIVITIES All repair and equipment installation activities shall conform to the development standards referenced as No. 1 through 9 Repair Activities of this report. ABATEMENT OF EXISTING TEMPORARY ADVERTISED DEVICES All existing temporary advertising devices including but not . limited to banners, balloons, flags, pennants, valance, or ~ad`verts~ing` display"constructed ~of``cl'oth; canvas°,"~'l~ght `fabric,' cardboard, wallboard, plywood or other light material, as well. as any mechanical, audible, ar animated statuary device, shall be abated within a period of one hundred eighty (180) days from the effective date of this section. DEVELOPMENT OF AUTOMOBILE. AND TRAILER SALES LOTS No person shall use any lot or parcel of land for the purpose of conducting or maintaining thereon an open-air type facility for the display and sale of new or used vehicles without complying with the. following minimum regulations: (1) The sale of new or used vehicles, and -shall be subject to a Conditional Use Permit. (2) The complete plans, showing the location and design of all buildings, structures, signs, lights, fences, bumpers or barricades and the proposed development thereof, including landscaping, shall first be submitted to, and be approved by, the Site Plan Review Committee, prior to .anyv_ considera_tion~,,by_. _ ~__ -_-~ '"'Planning Commission: (3) The entire area of such lot or parcel shall be surfaced, thereafter maintained in good condition with not less that a two-inch thickness of blacktop or other equally serviceable hard surface pavement, and prior to the laying of such surfacing, the entire area shall be effectively treated with a weed destroyer. {4) The property shall be attractively maintained in a neat and orderly condition, and the business conducted thereon shall be operated in a manner so as not to be detrimental to others residing or working in the vicinity. (5) Adequate devices or structures shall be installed and maintained so as to protect any boundary line fence, wall or building from damage and to prevent any part of a vehicle from extending across any public or private property lines and that all such ,__~ ~, ,~~. _~:,__installations. -_and~.the_mantenance_ thereof, --shal-l~=~-be- in conformance with standards and specifications approved by the Community Development. Department. (6) Open areas shall be used solely for the display of new and used vehicles, and shall not be used for the display of vehicles acquired for dismantling purposes or vehicles classified as total loss salvage vehicles. (7) A solid masonry wall shall be erected and attractively maintained along all property lines. f:\planning\ordnance 3 - ~• ~., (8) No advertising. sign, structure or device, whether temporary or permanent in character, shall be erected or maintained upon the premises without the design thereof and the proposed location having first been submitted to the Director of Community Development for approval. Temporary advertising devices shall include; but not be limited to: banners, balloons, flags, pennants, valance, or advertising display constructed of cloth, canvas, light fabric, cardboard, wallboard, plywood, or. other light material, as well as any mechanical, audible or animated statuary device. Temporary advertising may be permitted only during an approved special events sale which shall be limited to a maximum of eight days per calendar year. No single "' ~' ° ~~ ± ~ _~~ ~"",--~~sale~-ma exceeu-°-two~-consecutve~-~da• ~s :~--- A~-1 item ora-r- advertising devices .shall be approved by the Director of Community Development prior to their .installation. ABATEMENT OF NONCONFORMING USES Wherever a vehicle sales lot exists upon any property within the City at the time of adoption of this section, such use shall be abated or shall meet all provisions of this section within one hundred and eight (108) days after the date of adoption of this ordinance. Section 2. Severability. If any section, subsection subdivision, 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 competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions, of this ordinance or its application to other person or places. The City Council hereby declares that it would have adopted this ordinance, and each section thereof, irrespective .of the fact _" LL~`- ~~ - °that~ any one `"or~ more sect-ion; subsection; ~ sentence, or place-, be .declared invalid or unconstitutional. Section 3. 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 circulation printed, published, and circulated in the City of Lynwood. ' f:\planning\ordnance\autodev 4 c _ First read at a regular meeting of~the City Council of said City held on the _ day of November 1992 and finally ordered published at a regular meeting of said Council held on the ~: day of n~~arv ~~~(• 1993. Louis Heine, Mayor City of Lynwood, California ATTEST: , Andrea. L. Hooper, Cit Clerk City of Lynwood APPROVED AS TO CONTENT: lame fe , Director Community Development Department STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) '§ COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) -- - -I_, the~~undersigned City ~Cl~rk ~of the City of Lynwood, do hereby certify that the foregoing ordinance was passed and adopted by the City Council fo the City of Lynwood at a regular meeting held on the 5th day of January, 1993. AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS BYRD, HEINE, REA, RICHARDS NOES: NONE°. ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBER.WELLS ~,! ~-~-,~Ze~ CITY CLERk f:plaminp\or~ance\autadev STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) I, the undersigned City Clerk of the City of Lynwood and Clerk of the City Council of said City, do hereby certifythat the above and foregoing; is a full, true and correct copy of Ordiliance~~ No. 1381 on file in my office and that said Ordinance was adopted on the date and by the vote therein stated. ,~~-~ _ _ ..Dated this.. 5th s_~ay. of Jana~3ry 5 APPROVED AS TO FORM: