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HomeMy WebLinkAboutOrd 340-1952 [Zoning Regulations ] ORDINANCE NO. AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SOUTH SAN FRANCISCO SPECIFYING THAT NO PERSON, FIRM, OR CORPORATION SHALL ERECT ANY BUILDING IN SAID CITY OTHER THAN A RESIDENCE IN A REGULAR, RESIDENTIAL ZONE WITHOUT FXRS~,PI~OCURING A USE PERMIT FROM THE PLANNING COMMISSION OF SAID CITY WHEREAS the City of South San Francisco enacted an ordinance on the 8th day of December, 1947 providing for a Master Zoning or Districting Plan ~n:-:,sag~ City, and whereas said city has experienced very extensive development and growth since said date; and WltEREAS the City of South San Francisco is presently in the process of adopting a new Master Zoning or Districting Plan for said city so as to provide for its orderly growth and development and, further, so as to provide for the adequate protection of the health, safety, welfare, and property of the peoplq of said city; and WHEREAS because of the prodedural steps required by lay, said ordinance will not become effective for a number of months, during which time it is necessary to control the granting of building permits in order to effectuate the proposed Master Zoning Plan, NOW, THEREFORE, the City of South San Francisco does ordain as follows: Section 1. It shall be unlawful for any person, firm, or corporation to set up, erect, construct, alter, en- large, convert, move, or maintain an~building other than a residential structure in a residential zone, as now constituted, without first making application to, and procuring from, the Planning Commission of the City of South San Francisco authoriz- ing the erection of said building. Section 2. All departments, officials, and public employees of the City of South San Francisco vested with the duty or authority to issue permits or licenses shall conform to the provisions of this ordinance and shall issue no permit or license for uses, buildings, or purposes in conflict with the provisions of this ordinance. Any such permit or license issued in vonflict with the provisions of this ordinance shall be null and void. It shall be the duty of the building inspector of the city to enforce the provisions of this ordinance pertaining to the erection, construction, reconstruction, moving, conversion, alteration, or addition to any building or structure. Section 3. This ordinance is hereby declared to be an urgency measure and shall take effect i~ediately upon its final adoption. There follows a statement of the urgency: The City Council of the City of South San Francisco, through the Planning Co~ission and the City Attorney of said City are presently in the process of adopting a new I~ster Zoning or Districting Plan for said city, which, because of the requirements of law, ~ocannot become effective for several ~onths. The need for this new I~aster Zoning or Districting Plan is occasioned by the fact that said city has experienced in the past five years a tremendous growth and developmen~ and such gre~th and development have been accompanied by mny problems, one of which is parking. So that said problems, and particularly the problem of parking, will not become more ~aeute and pressing, it/necessary that no building or structure be erected or ot~erwise altered other than residen~es in the residential zones as now without constituted~ ~ stedy of the parking problems and other problems being ~ade by the Planning Co~ission, and then only upon~the issuance of ~ use permit Subject to such limitations and restrictions as said Planning Co~Jaission shall specify. Section 5. Any person, firm, or corporation, whether as principal, agent, employee or otherwise, violating or causing the violation of any of the provisions of this ordinance shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by a fine of not more than three hundred dollars ($300.00) or by imprisomaent for a term not exceeding six (6) months, or by both such fine and imprisonment. Such person, firm, or corporation shall be deemed to be guilty of a separate offense for each and every day during any portion4of which any violation of this ordinance is comaitted or continued by such person, firm, or corporation, and shall be punished as herein provided. Section 4. The provisions of this ordinaace shall be applicable until such date as said proposed new i~aster Zoning or Districting Plan becomes effective, unless this ordinaBce be sooner repealed. Introduced this 1st day of June 1953. Passed and adopted as an ordinance of the City of South San Francisco at a regular meeting of the City Council of said City held on the [Sth day of June 1953 by the following vote: Ayes, C~ncilmen, John Noonan, Adolph Sani, Emilio Cortesi, Joseph Bracco~ Telford ~mith ' ' N one No~s, , Absent, , None e h 3-