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ORDINANCE 306AIN 0 r, ORDINANCE NO. 306 AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING ZONES WITHIN THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO AND ESTABLISHING CLASSIFICATION OF LAND USES AND REGULATING SUCH LAND USES IN SUCH ZONES; REGULATING THE HEIGHT OF BUILDINGS, AND OPEN SPACES FOR LIGHT AND VENTILATION; ADOPTING A MAP OF SAID ZONES; DEFINING THE TEMS USED IN SAID ORDINANCE; PROVIDING FOR THE ADJUSTMENT, AMET DIvENT AND ENFORCEMENT THEREOF; PRESCRIBING PENALTIES FOR ITS VIOLATION. The City Council of the City of El Segundo, California, does ordain as follows: SECTION 1: An official land use plan for the City of El Segundo is hereby adopted and established to serve the public health, safety and general welfare and to provide the economic and social advantages resulting from an orderly planned use of land resources. SECTION 2: DEFINITIONS. This ordinance, which defines and makes effective the Land Use Plan of the City of E1 Segundo, shall be known as the "Zoning Ordinance" and for the purpose of this ordinance certain words and terms are defined. Words used in the present tense include the future; words in.the singular number include the plural; and words in the plural number include the singular; the word "shall" is mandatory. The term "City Council" means the City Council of the City of E1 Segundo, and the term "Commission" or "Planning Commission" means the City Planning Commission of the City of El Segundo. The word "City" when used means the City of El Segundo. "Accessory ": A building, part of building or structure or use which is subordinate to, and the use of which is inci- dental to that of the main building, structure or use on the -1- _.J same lot. Where the wall of an accessory building is a part of, or joined to, the wall of the main building, such accessory building shall be counted as part of the main building. "Alley ": A public or private way permanently reserved as a secondary means of access to abutting property. "Apartment's: A room or a suite of two or more rooms in a multiple dwelling, occupied or suitable of occupancy as a residence for one family. "Apartment Hotel ": A building or portion thereof designed for or containing both individual guest rooms or suite of rooms and dwelling units. "Apartment House ": See "Dwelling, Multiple". "Automobile Wrecking ": The dismantling or wrecking of used motor vehicles or trailers, or the storage, sale or dumping of dismantled or wrecked vehicles or their parts. "Basement ": A story partly underground and having one - half or more of its height below the average level of the adjoining ground. A basement, when designed for, or occupied by dwellings, business or manufacturing, shall be considered to be a story. ssBoarding House ": A building where lodging and meals are provided for compensation for five (5), but not more than fifteen (15) persons, not including rest homes. "Building ": A permanently located structure having a roof (all forms of vehicles excluded). "Building Height ": The vertical distance measured from the average level of the highest and lowest point of that portion of the site covered by the building to the ceiling of the upper- most story. "Building - site ": The ground area of a building or group of buildings, together with all open spaces as required by this ordinance. -2- i956 "Bungalow Court ": A group of three or more detached one - story, one or two - family dwellings, located upon a single lot, together with all open spaces as required by this Ordi- nance. Two - family dwellings shall mean two units as defined under "Dwelling, Two- family ". "Business or Commerce ": The purchase, sale or other transaction involving the handling or disposition of any article, substance or commodity for profit or livelihood, or the owner- ship or management of office buildings, offices, recreational or amusement enterprises or the maintenance and use of offices by professions and trades rendering services. "Camp, Public ": Any area or tract of land used or designed to accomodate two (2) or more automobile trailers, including trailer camps. "Camp, Trailer ": See "Camp, Public ". "Club ": An association of persons for some common non- profit purpose, but not including groups organized primarily to render a service which is customarily carried on as a business. "Commission ": Shall mean the "City Planning Commission ". "Convalescent Homes ": See "Rest Homes ". "Dwelling ": A building or portion thereof designed for or occupied exclusively for residential purposes, including one - family, two - family and multiple dwellings, but not including hotels, boarding and lodging houses. "Dwelling Unit ": Two or more rooms in a dwelling or apartment hotel designed for or occupied by one family for living or sleeping purposes and having only one (1) kitchen. "Dwelling, One- family ": A detached building designed for or occupied exclusively by one (1) family. "Dwelling, Two - family ": A building designed for or occupied exclusively by two (2) families, living independently of each other. -3- 19 "Dwelling, Multiple ": A building or portion thereof, designed for or occupied by three (3) or more families living independently of each other. "Educational Institutions ": Colleges or universities supported wholly or in part by public funds and other colleges, universities or other schools giving general academic instructions, as determined by the State Board of Education. "Family ": An individual, or two (2) or more persons related by blood or marriage, or a group of not more than five (5) persons, excluding servants, who are not related by blood or marriage, living together as a single housekeeping unit in a dwelling unit. "Garage, private ": An accessory building or an accessory portion of the main building, designed or used only for the shelter or storage of vehicles owned or operated by the occupants of the main building. "Garage, public ": A building other than a private garage used for the care, repair or equipping of automobiles, or where such vehicles are kept for remuneration, hire or sale. "Group Houses ": Two or more separate buildings each con- taining one or more dwelling units. "Guest Home ": See "Rest Homes ". "Guest House ": Living quarters within an accessory building located on the same premises with the main building, for use by temporary guests of the occupants of the premises, having no kitchen, and not rented or otherwise used as a separate dwelling. "Home Occupation ": An occupation carried on by the occupant of a dwelling as a secondary use in connection with which there is no display; no stock in trade nor commodity sold upon the premises; no person employed; or no mechanical equipment used except such as is necessary for housekeeping purposes. "Hotel ": A building designed for or occupied as the more or less temporary abiding place of individuals who are lodged with or without meals, in which there are six (6) or more guest -4- x-959 rooms, and in which no provision is made for cooking in any individual room or suite. Jails, hospitals, asylums, sani- tariums or orphanages, prisons, detention homes or similar buildings where human beings are housed and detained under legal restraint are specifically not included. "Kitchen ": Any room used or intended or designed to be used for cooking or the preparation of food. "Loading Space ": An off - street space or berth on the same lot with a building, or contiguous to a group of buildings, for the temporary parking of a commercial vehicle while loading or unloading merchandise or materials. "Lodging House ": A building with not more than five (5) guest rooms, where, for compensation, lodging is provided for five (5) but not more than ten (10) persons. "Lot ": A parcel of real property as shown as a delineated parcel of land with a separate and distinct number or other designation on a plat recorded in the office of the County Recorder of Los Angeles County; or, (2), a parcel of real property not so delineated and containing not more than five thousand (5,000) square feet and abutting at least one public street or alley, and held under separate ownership from adjacent pro- perty prior to the effective date of this ordinance; or, (3), a portion of real property not so delineated, containing not less than five thousand (5,000) square feet abutting at least one public street or alley, if the same was a portion of a larger piece of real property held under the same ownership prior to the said effective date of this ordinance. "Lot line, Front ": in the case of an interior lot, a line separating the lot from the street, and in the case of a corner lot, a line separating the narrowest street frontage of the lot from the street, except in those cases where the latest tract deed restrictions specify another line as the front lot line. "Lot line, Rear ": A lot line, which is opposite and most distant from the front lot line, and, in the case of an -5- 1960 irregular, triangular or gore- shaped lot, a line within the lot, parallel to and at the maximum distance from the front lot line, having a depth of ten (10) feet. "Lot line, Side ": Any lot boundary line not a front lot line or a rear lot line. "Lot width ": The horizontal distance between the side lot lines, measured at right angles to the lot depth at a point midway between the front and rear lot lines. "Lot depth": The horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines, measured in the mean direction of the side lot lines. "Lot Area ": The total horizontal area within the lot lines of a lot. "Lot, Corner ": A lot situated at the intersection of two (2) or more streets, having an angle of intersection of not more than one hundred thirty -five (135) degrees and a width not greater than seventy -five (75) feet. "Lot, reversed corner": A corner lot, the side street line of which is substantially a continuation of the front lot line of the lot upon which it rears. "Lot, interior": A lot other than a corner lot. "Lot, key ": The first lot to the rear of a reversed corner lot and not separated by an alley. "Lot, through ": A lot having frontage on two (2) parallel or approximately parallel streets. "Motel ": See "Tourist Court ". "Non- conforming Building ": A building or portion thereof lawfully existing at the time this ordinance became effective and which was designed, erected or structurally altered for a use which does not conform to the use zone in which it is located, or which does not comply with all the height and area regulations of the zone in which it is located. "Non- conforming Use": A building or land lawfully occupied M such floor and the ceiling next above it. "Street ": A public or private thoroughfare which affords principal means of access to abutting property. "Street, side ": That street bounding a corner lot and which extends in the same general direction as the line determining the depth of the lot. "Street line ": The boundary line between street and abutting property. "Structure ": Anything constructed or erected, which re- quires location on the ground or attached to something having a location on the ground, but not including fences or walls used as fences less than six (6) feet in height. "Structural Alterations ": Any change in the supporting members of a building, such as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders and floor joists or roof joists, girders or rafters or changes in roof or exterior lines. "Super Service Station ": A filling station to supply motor fuel and oil to motor vehicles, and including grease racks, wash racks or pits, tire repairs, including recapping, but with equip- ment limited to three molds, battery servicing and repairing, ignition service, accessory sales and other customary services for automobiles, but excluding painting, body work and steam cleaning. "Tourist Court ": A group of attached or detached buildings containing individual sleeping or living unit with garage attached or parking space conveniently located to each unit, all for the temporary use by automobile tourists or transients; includes auto courts, motels or motor lodges. "Trailer Automobile ": A vehicle without motor power, i designed to be drawn by a motor vehicle and to be used for human habitation or for carrying persons and property, including a trailer coach. "Trailer Court ": See "Camp, public ". 1965 matters as herein set forth, are hereby established and declared to be in effect upon all land included within the boundaries of each and every zone shown upon the said Zoning MAp. Except as hereinafter provided: 1. No building shall be erected and no existing building shall be moved into, reconstructed, structurally altered, added to or enlarged, nor shall any land, building or premises be used, designed or intended to be used for any purpose other than a use listed in Sections 4, 5, 61 7, $, 91 10 and 11 of this ordinance, or amendments thereto, for the zone in which such land, building or premises is located. 2. No building shall be erected, nor shall any existing building be moved, reconstructed, added to, enlarged or structurally altered to exceed in height the limit established by Sections 4, 5, 6, 7, g, 9, 10 and 11 of this ordinance, or amendments thereto, for the zone in which such building is located. 3. No building shall be erected., nor shall any existing building be moved, structurally altered, added to, enlarged, reconstructed or re- built, nor shall any open spaces surrounding any building be encroached upon or reduced in any manner except in conformity with the building -site requirements and the area and yard regulations established by Sections 4, 5, 6, 71 g, 91 10 and 11 of this ordinance, or amendments thereto, for the zone in which such building is located. 4. No yard or other open space provided about any building for the purpose of complying with the regulations of this ordinance, or amendments thereto, shall be considered as providing a yard or open space for any other building or structure. 5. IrJlhile a non - conforming use exists on any lot, no other use of a more restricted classification shall be permitted, even though such other use would otherwise be a conforming use. SECTION 4: 1IR-1" ONE- FAI, =Y ZONE. The following regulations shall apply in the "R -1" One- family Zone unless otherwise provided in this ordinance. A. USE. 1. One- family dwellings of a, permanent character placed in permanent locations. Separate servant's quarters may be established in connection with one - family dwelling of nine (9) rooms or larger, exclusive -11- _L966 of bathrooms, when located on lots of not less than ten thousand (10,000) square feet. Private garages to accomodate not more than three (3) cars. 2. Private greenhouses and horticultural collections; poultry or rabbits for domestic, non - commercial use (not to exceed a total of 24 birds and /or rabbits); public parks; flower and vegetable gardens, fruit trees, home occupations. 3. One (1) unlighted sign, not exceeding six (6) square feet in area, pertaining only to the sale, lease or hire of only the particular building, property or premises upon which displayed. No other advertising signs, structures or devices of any character shall be permitted in any "R -1" One- family Zone. 4. Underground storage of not to exceed one thousand (1,000) gallons of petroleum fuel for heating on the premises. 5. Transitional Use, subject to the following conditions: a. Two - family dwellings, when the side of a lot in the "R -1" Zone abuts upon property zoned for "R -3", "R -411, "P -111, "C -211, fill-lit or 111VI -2" Zones. In no case shall the lot on which such transitional use is located have a width of more than sixty (60) feet devoted to the transitional use. B. HEIGHT. Two and one -half (2�) stories and not to exceed thirty -five (35) feet except as provided in Sections 12 and 13. C. FRONT YARD. There shall be a front yard of not less than twenty -five (25) per cent of the depth of the lot, provided such front yard need not exceed twenty -five (25) feet, except where lots comprising forty (40 %) per cent or more of the frontage on one side of a street between intersecting streets, are developed with buildings having an average front yard with a variation of not more than six (6) feet, no building hereafter erected or structurally altered shall project beyond the average front yard line so established. D. SIDE YARD. On interior lots there shall be a side ,rard on each side of a building of not less than ten (10°x) per cent of the width of the lot, provided that such side yard shall not be less than three (3) feet and need not exceed five (5) feet in width. -12- On corner lots the side yard regulation shall be the same as for interior lots, except in the case of a reversed corner lot. In this case, there shall be a side yard on the street side of the corner lot of not less than fifty (50 %) per- cent of the front yard required on the lot in the rear of such corner lot, and no accessory building on said lot shall project beyond the front yard line on the lots in the rear; provided, so further, that this regulation shall not be/interpreted as to reduce the buildable width (after providing the required interior side yard) of a reversed corner lot of record at the time this ordinance became effective to less than twenty -eight (28) feet, nor to prohibit the erection of an accessory building where this regulation cannot reasonably be complied with. E. REAR YARD. There shall be a rear yard of not less than twenty -five (25 %) pe0ent of the depth of the lot, provided such rear yard need not exceed twenty -five (25) feet. F. LOT AREA PER FAMILY. Every main building hereafter erected or structurally altered shall have a lot area of not less than five thousand (5,000) square feet per family, Provided, however, that where a lot has less area than herein required and was of record at the time this ordinance became effective, said lot may be occupied by not more than one family. %FACTION 5: "R -2" TWO- FAMJLY ZONE. The following regulations shall apply in the "R -2" Two- family Zone unless otherwise provided in this ordinance. A. USE. 1. Any use permitted in the "R -1" One- family Zone. 2. Two- family dwellings, provided that where a one- family dwelling exists on a lot on the effective date of this ordinance, a second one - family dwelling will be allowed provided _13- X08 the front and side yard requirements are conformed to, and provided further that the space between such one - family dwelling on the same lot, and the depth of the rear yard, shall each be not less than fifteen (15) feet. 3. Elementary, Junior High and High Schools offering full curricula as required by State law; churches, public playgrounds. 4. Uses customarily incident to any of the above uses. 5. Accessory buildings including garage space for not to exceed four (4) cars. 6. Required parking space (see Section 12). 7. Transitional uses shall be permitted as follows: a. A four - family dwelling where the side of a lot in the "R -2" Two- family Zone abuts upon a lot zoned for Multiple- family dwellings, commercial or industrial purposes. b. A public parking area where the side of a lot in the "R -2" Two - family zone abuts upon a lot zoned for commercial or industrial purposes and is developed as required in Section 12. c. In no case shall the lot on which such transitional use is located have a width of more than sixty (60) feet. B. HEIGHT. No building hereafter erected or structurally altered shall exceed two and one -half (22) stories, or thirty - five feet. C. FRONT YARD. There shall be a front yard of not less than twenty - five (25 %) peo ent of the depth of the lot provided such front yard need not exceed twenty (20) feet except where lots comprising forty (40%) pecent or more of the frontage on one side of a street between intersecting streets are developed with buildings -14- A63 "Use ": The purpose for which land or building is arranged, designed or intended, or for which either is or may be occupied or maintained. "Yard ": An open space other than a court, on a lot, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, except as otherwise provided herein. "Yard, Front ": A ,yard extending across the full width of the lot, the depth of which is the minimum horizontal distance between the front lot lines and a line parallel thereto on the lot. "Yard, Rear ": A yard extending across the full width of the lot between the main building and the rear lot line; the depth of the required rear yard shall be measured horizontally from the nearest part of the main building toward the rear lot line. "Yard, Side ": A yard between the main building and the side lot line, extending from the front yard, or front lot line where no front yard is required, to the rear yard; the width of the required side yard shall be measured horizontally from the nearest part of the side lot line toward the main building. SECTION 3: ESTABLISHING ZONES AND LINIITING THE USES OF LAND THEREIN. In order to classify, regulate, restrict and segregate the uses of land and buildings, to regulate and restrict the height and bulk of buildings and to regulate the area of ,yards and other open spaces about buildings, and to regulate the density of population, eight (8) classes of zones are established to be known as follows: R -1 - One- family Zone. R -2 - Two- family Zone. R -3 - Multiple - family Zone. R -4 - Service Commercial Zone. P -1 - Automobile Parking Zone. C -2 - General Commercial Zone. M -1 - Light Manufacturing Zone. M -2 - Heavy Manufacturing Zone. -9 -- - x_964 which said several zones are hereb-, established, and which said classi- fications and zones are shown and delineated on the Zoning Iiap of the City of El Segundo. Said Zonin-- I-'ap consists of Part I, Part II and Part III of which Part I is attached hereto and adopted hereby and made a part hereof. The City Council declares that the areas to be included in Part II (comprising all areas of the Citsr of a Segundo located easterly of Sepulveda Boulevard�,and Part III (comprising all areas of the City of Fl Segundo located westerly of Sepulveda Boulevard and southerl;T of El Segundo Boulevard) of said Zoning Map are for the most part, unsubdivided lands now occupied by, or being planned for occupancy principally for, industrial purposes and that as rapidly as related plans for such areas are completed, Part II and Part III of said Zoning Map will be adopted pursuant to law; provided that pending the adoption of Part II and Part III of said Zoning Tvap, all lands within the cor- porate limits of the City of El Segundo, which are not included in Part I of said Zoning; r -rjap hereby adopted, shall be subject to the provisions of Section 11 of this Ordinance defining the M -2 Heavy Manufacturing Zone. Changes in the boundaries of any such zones may and shall be made by ordinance. Where uncertainty exists as to the boundaries of any zone shown on said Zoning Map, the following rules shall apply: (a) 1,1here such boundaries are indicated as approximately following street and alley lines or lot lines, such lines shall be construed to be such boundaries; (b) In the case of unsubdivided property and where a zone boundary divided a lot, the location of such boundaries, unless the same are in- dicated by dimensions, shall be determined by use of the scale appear- ing on said Zoning Map; (c) Where a public street or alley is officially vacated or abandoned, the regulations applicable to abutting property shall apply to such vacated or abandoned street or alley. The boundaries of such zones as are shown upon the Zoning Map adopted by this ordinance are hereby adopted and approved and the reg- ulations of this ordinance governing the use of land and buildings, the height of buildings, and sizes of yards about buildings and other -10- at the time this ordinance became effective by a use that does not conform with the regulations of the zone in which it is situated. "Parking Area, Public ": An open area other than a street, alley or place, used for the temporary parking of more than four (4) automobiles and available for public use whether free, for compensation or as an accomodation for clients or customers. "Parking space, Automobile ": Space within a building or public parking area for the temporary parking or storage of one (1) automobile. "Place ": An open, unoccupied space other than a street or alley, permanently reserved as the principal means of access to abutting property. "Rest Homes ": Same as boarding house, but permitting nursing, dietary and other personal services rendered to con- valescents, invalids and aged persons, but excluding cases of contagious or communicable diseases, and excluding surgery or primary treatments such as are customarily provided in sanitariums and hospitals. "Sanitariums ": A health station or retreat or other place where patients are kept and where medical or surgical treatment is given, but not mental. "Schools, Elementary and High ": An institution of learning which offers instruction in the several branches of learning and study required to be taught in the public schools by the Education Code of the State of California. "Stable, private ": A detached accessory building for the keeping of horses owned by the occupants of the premises, and not kept for remuneration, hire or sale. "Stable, public ": A stable other than a private stable. "Story ": That portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above it, or if there be no floor above it, then the space between -7- IN 0 r, ORDINANCE NO. 306 AN ORDINANCE ESTABLISHING ZONES WITHIN THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO AND ESTABLISHING CLASSIFICATION OF LAND USES AND REGULATING SUCH LAND USES IN SUCH ZONES; REGULATING THE HEIGHT OF BUILDINGS, AND OPEN SPACES FOR LIGHT AND VENTILATION; ADOPTING A MAP OF SAID ZONES; DEFINING THE TEMS USED IN SAID ORDINANCE; PROVIDING FOR THE ADJUSTMENT, AMET DIvENT AND ENFORCEMENT THEREOF; PRESCRIBING PENALTIES FOR ITS VIOLATION. The City Council of the City of El Segundo, California, does ordain as follows: SECTION 1: An official land use plan for the City of El Segundo is hereby adopted and established to serve the public health, safety and general welfare and to provide the economic and social advantages resulting from an orderly planned use of land resources. SECTION 2: DEFINITIONS. This ordinance, which defines and makes effective the Land Use Plan of the City of E1 Segundo, shall be known as the "Zoning Ordinance" and for the purpose of this ordinance certain words and terms are defined. Words used in the present tense include the future; words in.the singular number include the plural; and words in the plural number include the singular; the word "shall" is mandatory. The term "City Council" means the City Council of the City of E1 Segundo, and the term "Commission" or "Planning Commission" means the City Planning Commission of the City of El Segundo. The word "City" when used means the City of El Segundo. "Accessory ": A building, part of building or structure or use which is subordinate to, and the use of which is inci- dental to that of the main building, structure or use on the -1- _.J same lot. Where the wall of an accessory building is a part of, or joined to, the wall of the main building, such accessory building shall be counted as part of the main building. "Alley ": A public or private way permanently reserved as a secondary means of access to abutting property. "Apartment's: A room or a suite of two or more rooms in a multiple dwelling, occupied or suitable of occupancy as a residence for one family. "Apartment Hotel ": A building or portion thereof designed for or containing both individual guest rooms or suite of rooms and dwelling units. "Apartment House ": See "Dwelling, Multiple". "Automobile Wrecking ": The dismantling or wrecking of used motor vehicles or trailers, or the storage, sale or dumping of dismantled or wrecked vehicles or their parts. "Basement ": A story partly underground and having one - half or more of its height below the average level of the adjoining ground. A basement, when designed for, or occupied by dwellings, business or manufacturing, shall be considered to be a story. ssBoarding House ": A building where lodging and meals are provided for compensation for five (5), but not more than fifteen (15) persons, not including rest homes. "Building ": A permanently located structure having a roof (all forms of vehicles excluded). "Building Height ": The vertical distance measured from the average level of the highest and lowest point of that portion of the site covered by the building to the ceiling of the upper- most story. "Building - site ": The ground area of a building or group of buildings, together with all open spaces as required by this ordinance. -2- i956 "Bungalow Court ": A group of three or more detached one - story, one or two - family dwellings, located upon a single lot, together with all open spaces as required by this Ordi- nance. Two - family dwellings shall mean two units as defined under "Dwelling, Two- family ". "Business or Commerce ": The purchase, sale or other transaction involving the handling or disposition of any article, substance or commodity for profit or livelihood, or the owner- ship or management of office buildings, offices, recreational or amusement enterprises or the maintenance and use of offices by professions and trades rendering services. "Camp, Public ": Any area or tract of land used or designed to accomodate two (2) or more automobile trailers, including trailer camps. "Camp, Trailer ": See "Camp, Public ". "Club ": An association of persons for some common non- profit purpose, but not including groups organized primarily to render a service which is customarily carried on as a business. "Commission ": Shall mean the "City Planning Commission ". "Convalescent Homes ": See "Rest Homes ". "Dwelling ": A building or portion thereof designed for or occupied exclusively for residential purposes, including one - family, two - family and multiple dwellings, but not including hotels, boarding and lodging houses. "Dwelling Unit ": Two or more rooms in a dwelling or apartment hotel designed for or occupied by one family for living or sleeping purposes and having only one (1) kitchen. "Dwelling, One- family ": A detached building designed for or occupied exclusively by one (1) family. "Dwelling, Two - family ": A building designed for or occupied exclusively by two (2) families, living independently of each other. -3- 19 "Dwelling, Multiple ": A building or portion thereof, designed for or occupied by three (3) or more families living independently of each other. "Educational Institutions ": Colleges or universities supported wholly or in part by public funds and other colleges, universities or other schools giving general academic instructions, as determined by the State Board of Education. "Family ": An individual, or two (2) or more persons related by blood or marriage, or a group of not more than five (5) persons, excluding servants, who are not related by blood or marriage, living together as a single housekeeping unit in a dwelling unit. "Garage, private ": An accessory building or an accessory portion of the main building, designed or used only for the shelter or storage of vehicles owned or operated by the occupants of the main building. "Garage, public ": A building other than a private garage used for the care, repair or equipping of automobiles, or where such vehicles are kept for remuneration, hire or sale. "Group Houses ": Two or more separate buildings each con- taining one or more dwelling units. "Guest Home ": See "Rest Homes ". "Guest House ": Living quarters within an accessory building located on the same premises with the main building, for use by temporary guests of the occupants of the premises, having no kitchen, and not rented or otherwise used as a separate dwelling. "Home Occupation ": An occupation carried on by the occupant of a dwelling as a secondary use in connection with which there is no display; no stock in trade nor commodity sold upon the premises; no person employed; or no mechanical equipment used except such as is necessary for housekeeping purposes. "Hotel ": A building designed for or occupied as the more or less temporary abiding place of individuals who are lodged with or without meals, in which there are six (6) or more guest -4- x-959 rooms, and in which no provision is made for cooking in any individual room or suite. Jails, hospitals, asylums, sani- tariums or orphanages, prisons, detention homes or similar buildings where human beings are housed and detained under legal restraint are specifically not included. "Kitchen ": Any room used or intended or designed to be used for cooking or the preparation of food. "Loading Space ": An off - street space or berth on the same lot with a building, or contiguous to a group of buildings, for the temporary parking of a commercial vehicle while loading or unloading merchandise or materials. "Lodging House ": A building with not more than five (5) guest rooms, where, for compensation, lodging is provided for five (5) but not more than ten (10) persons. "Lot ": A parcel of real property as shown as a delineated parcel of land with a separate and distinct number or other designation on a plat recorded in the office of the County Recorder of Los Angeles County; or, (2), a parcel of real property not so delineated and containing not more than five thousand (5,000) square feet and abutting at least one public street or alley, and held under separate ownership from adjacent pro- perty prior to the effective date of this ordinance; or, (3), a portion of real property not so delineated, containing not less than five thousand (5,000) square feet abutting at least one public street or alley, if the same was a portion of a larger piece of real property held under the same ownership prior to the said effective date of this ordinance. "Lot line, Front ": in the case of an interior lot, a line separating the lot from the street, and in the case of a corner lot, a line separating the narrowest street frontage of the lot from the street, except in those cases where the latest tract deed restrictions specify another line as the front lot line. "Lot line, Rear ": A lot line, which is opposite and most distant from the front lot line, and, in the case of an -5- 1960 irregular, triangular or gore- shaped lot, a line within the lot, parallel to and at the maximum distance from the front lot line, having a depth of ten (10) feet. "Lot line, Side ": Any lot boundary line not a front lot line or a rear lot line. "Lot width ": The horizontal distance between the side lot lines, measured at right angles to the lot depth at a point midway between the front and rear lot lines. "Lot depth": The horizontal distance between the front and rear lot lines, measured in the mean direction of the side lot lines. "Lot Area ": The total horizontal area within the lot lines of a lot. "Lot, Corner ": A lot situated at the intersection of two (2) or more streets, having an angle of intersection of not more than one hundred thirty -five (135) degrees and a width not greater than seventy -five (75) feet. "Lot, reversed corner": A corner lot, the side street line of which is substantially a continuation of the front lot line of the lot upon which it rears. "Lot, interior": A lot other than a corner lot. "Lot, key ": The first lot to the rear of a reversed corner lot and not separated by an alley. "Lot, through ": A lot having frontage on two (2) parallel or approximately parallel streets. "Motel ": See "Tourist Court ". "Non- conforming Building ": A building or portion thereof lawfully existing at the time this ordinance became effective and which was designed, erected or structurally altered for a use which does not conform to the use zone in which it is located, or which does not comply with all the height and area regulations of the zone in which it is located. "Non- conforming Use": A building or land lawfully occupied M such floor and the ceiling next above it. "Street ": A public or private thoroughfare which affords principal means of access to abutting property. "Street, side ": That street bounding a corner lot and which extends in the same general direction as the line determining the depth of the lot. "Street line ": The boundary line between street and abutting property. "Structure ": Anything constructed or erected, which re- quires location on the ground or attached to something having a location on the ground, but not including fences or walls used as fences less than six (6) feet in height. "Structural Alterations ": Any change in the supporting members of a building, such as bearing walls, columns, beams or girders and floor joists or roof joists, girders or rafters or changes in roof or exterior lines. "Super Service Station ": A filling station to supply motor fuel and oil to motor vehicles, and including grease racks, wash racks or pits, tire repairs, including recapping, but with equip- ment limited to three molds, battery servicing and repairing, ignition service, accessory sales and other customary services for automobiles, but excluding painting, body work and steam cleaning. "Tourist Court ": A group of attached or detached buildings containing individual sleeping or living unit with garage attached or parking space conveniently located to each unit, all for the temporary use by automobile tourists or transients; includes auto courts, motels or motor lodges. "Trailer Automobile ": A vehicle without motor power, i designed to be drawn by a motor vehicle and to be used for human habitation or for carrying persons and property, including a trailer coach. "Trailer Court ": See "Camp, public ". 1965 matters as herein set forth, are hereby established and declared to be in effect upon all land included within the boundaries of each and every zone shown upon the said Zoning MAp. Except as hereinafter provided: 1. No building shall be erected and no existing building shall be moved into, reconstructed, structurally altered, added to or enlarged, nor shall any land, building or premises be used, designed or intended to be used for any purpose other than a use listed in Sections 4, 5, 61 7, $, 91 10 and 11 of this ordinance, or amendments thereto, for the zone in which such land, building or premises is located. 2. No building shall be erected, nor shall any existing building be moved, reconstructed, added to, enlarged or structurally altered to exceed in height the limit established by Sections 4, 5, 6, 7, g, 9, 10 and 11 of this ordinance, or amendments thereto, for the zone in which such building is located. 3. No building shall be erected., nor shall any existing building be moved, structurally altered, added to, enlarged, reconstructed or re- built, nor shall any open spaces surrounding any building be encroached upon or reduced in any manner except in conformity with the building -site requirements and the area and yard regulations established by Sections 4, 5, 6, 71 g, 91 10 and 11 of this ordinance, or amendments thereto, for the zone in which such building is located. 4. No yard or other open space provided about any building for the purpose of complying with the regulations of this ordinance, or amendments thereto, shall be considered as providing a yard or open space for any other building or structure. 5. IrJlhile a non - conforming use exists on any lot, no other use of a more restricted classification shall be permitted, even though such other use would otherwise be a conforming use. SECTION 4: 1IR-1" ONE- FAI, =Y ZONE. The following regulations shall apply in the "R -1" One- family Zone unless otherwise provided in this ordinance. A. USE. 1. One- family dwellings of a, permanent character placed in permanent locations. Separate servant's quarters may be established in connection with one - family dwelling of nine (9) rooms or larger, exclusive -11- _L966 of bathrooms, when located on lots of not less than ten thousand (10,000) square feet. Private garages to accomodate not more than three (3) cars. 2. Private greenhouses and horticultural collections; poultry or rabbits for domestic, non - commercial use (not to exceed a total of 24 birds and /or rabbits); public parks; flower and vegetable gardens, fruit trees, home occupations. 3. One (1) unlighted sign, not exceeding six (6) square feet in area, pertaining only to the sale, lease or hire of only the particular building, property or premises upon which displayed. No other advertising signs, structures or devices of any character shall be permitted in any "R -1" One- family Zone. 4. Underground storage of not to exceed one thousand (1,000) gallons of petroleum fuel for heating on the premises. 5. Transitional Use, subject to the following conditions: a. Two - family dwellings, when the side of a lot in the "R -1" Zone abuts upon property zoned for "R -3", "R -411, "P -111, "C -211, fill-lit or 111VI -2" Zones. In no case shall the lot on which such transitional use is located have a width of more than sixty (60) feet devoted to the transitional use. B. HEIGHT. Two and one -half (2�) stories and not to exceed thirty -five (35) feet except as provided in Sections 12 and 13. C. FRONT YARD. There shall be a front yard of not less than twenty -five (25) per cent of the depth of the lot, provided such front yard need not exceed twenty -five (25) feet, except where lots comprising forty (40 %) per cent or more of the frontage on one side of a street between intersecting streets, are developed with buildings having an average front yard with a variation of not more than six (6) feet, no building hereafter erected or structurally altered shall project beyond the average front yard line so established. D. SIDE YARD. On interior lots there shall be a side ,rard on each side of a building of not less than ten (10°x) per cent of the width of the lot, provided that such side yard shall not be less than three (3) feet and need not exceed five (5) feet in width. -12- On corner lots the side yard regulation shall be the same as for interior lots, except in the case of a reversed corner lot. In this case, there shall be a side yard on the street side of the corner lot of not less than fifty (50 %) per- cent of the front yard required on the lot in the rear of such corner lot, and no accessory building on said lot shall project beyond the front yard line on the lots in the rear; provided, so further, that this regulation shall not be/interpreted as to reduce the buildable width (after providing the required interior side yard) of a reversed corner lot of record at the time this ordinance became effective to less than twenty -eight (28) feet, nor to prohibit the erection of an accessory building where this regulation cannot reasonably be complied with. E. REAR YARD. There shall be a rear yard of not less than twenty -five (25 %) pe0ent of the depth of the lot, provided such rear yard need not exceed twenty -five (25) feet. F. LOT AREA PER FAMILY. Every main building hereafter erected or structurally altered shall have a lot area of not less than five thousand (5,000) square feet per family, Provided, however, that where a lot has less area than herein required and was of record at the time this ordinance became effective, said lot may be occupied by not more than one family. %FACTION 5: "R -2" TWO- FAMJLY ZONE. The following regulations shall apply in the "R -2" Two- family Zone unless otherwise provided in this ordinance. A. USE. 1. Any use permitted in the "R -1" One- family Zone. 2. Two- family dwellings, provided that where a one- family dwelling exists on a lot on the effective date of this ordinance, a second one - family dwelling will be allowed provided _13- X08 the front and side yard requirements are conformed to, and provided further that the space between such one - family dwelling on the same lot, and the depth of the rear yard, shall each be not less than fifteen (15) feet. 3. Elementary, Junior High and High Schools offering full curricula as required by State law; churches, public playgrounds. 4. Uses customarily incident to any of the above uses. 5. Accessory buildings including garage space for not to exceed four (4) cars. 6. Required parking space (see Section 12). 7. Transitional uses shall be permitted as follows: a. A four - family dwelling where the side of a lot in the "R -2" Two- family Zone abuts upon a lot zoned for Multiple- family dwellings, commercial or industrial purposes. b. A public parking area where the side of a lot in the "R -2" Two - family zone abuts upon a lot zoned for commercial or industrial purposes and is developed as required in Section 12. c. In no case shall the lot on which such transitional use is located have a width of more than sixty (60) feet. B. HEIGHT. No building hereafter erected or structurally altered shall exceed two and one -half (22) stories, or thirty - five feet. C. FRONT YARD. There shall be a front yard of not less than twenty - five (25 %) peo ent of the depth of the lot provided such front yard need not exceed twenty (20) feet except where lots comprising forty (40%) pecent or more of the frontage on one side of a street between intersecting streets are developed with buildings -14- A63 "Use ": The purpose for which land or building is arranged, designed or intended, or for which either is or may be occupied or maintained. "Yard ": An open space other than a court, on a lot, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, except as otherwise provided herein. "Yard, Front ": A ,yard extending across the full width of the lot, the depth of which is the minimum horizontal distance between the front lot lines and a line parallel thereto on the lot. "Yard, Rear ": A yard extending across the full width of the lot between the main building and the rear lot line; the depth of the required rear yard shall be measured horizontally from the nearest part of the main building toward the rear lot line. "Yard, Side ": A yard between the main building and the side lot line, extending from the front yard, or front lot line where no front yard is required, to the rear yard; the width of the required side yard shall be measured horizontally from the nearest part of the side lot line toward the main building. SECTION 3: ESTABLISHING ZONES AND LINIITING THE USES OF LAND THEREIN. In order to classify, regulate, restrict and segregate the uses of land and buildings, to regulate and restrict the height and bulk of buildings and to regulate the area of ,yards and other open spaces about buildings, and to regulate the density of population, eight (8) classes of zones are established to be known as follows: R -1 - One- family Zone. R -2 - Two- family Zone. R -3 - Multiple - family Zone. R -4 - Service Commercial Zone. P -1 - Automobile Parking Zone. C -2 - General Commercial Zone. M -1 - Light Manufacturing Zone. M -2 - Heavy Manufacturing Zone. -9 -- - x_964 which said several zones are hereb-, established, and which said classi- fications and zones are shown and delineated on the Zoning Iiap of the City of El Segundo. Said Zonin-- I-'ap consists of Part I, Part II and Part III of which Part I is attached hereto and adopted hereby and made a part hereof. The City Council declares that the areas to be included in Part II (comprising all areas of the Citsr of a Segundo located easterly of Sepulveda Boulevard�,and Part III (comprising all areas of the City of Fl Segundo located westerly of Sepulveda Boulevard and southerl;T of El Segundo Boulevard) of said Zoning Map are for the most part, unsubdivided lands now occupied by, or being planned for occupancy principally for, industrial purposes and that as rapidly as related plans for such areas are completed, Part II and Part III of said Zoning Map will be adopted pursuant to law; provided that pending the adoption of Part II and Part III of said Zoning Tvap, all lands within the cor- porate limits of the City of El Segundo, which are not included in Part I of said Zoning; r -rjap hereby adopted, shall be subject to the provisions of Section 11 of this Ordinance defining the M -2 Heavy Manufacturing Zone. Changes in the boundaries of any such zones may and shall be made by ordinance. Where uncertainty exists as to the boundaries of any zone shown on said Zoning Map, the following rules shall apply: (a) 1,1here such boundaries are indicated as approximately following street and alley lines or lot lines, such lines shall be construed to be such boundaries; (b) In the case of unsubdivided property and where a zone boundary divided a lot, the location of such boundaries, unless the same are in- dicated by dimensions, shall be determined by use of the scale appear- ing on said Zoning Map; (c) Where a public street or alley is officially vacated or abandoned, the regulations applicable to abutting property shall apply to such vacated or abandoned street or alley. The boundaries of such zones as are shown upon the Zoning Map adopted by this ordinance are hereby adopted and approved and the reg- ulations of this ordinance governing the use of land and buildings, the height of buildings, and sizes of yards about buildings and other -10- at the time this ordinance became effective by a use that does not conform with the regulations of the zone in which it is situated. "Parking Area, Public ": An open area other than a street, alley or place, used for the temporary parking of more than four (4) automobiles and available for public use whether free, for compensation or as an accomodation for clients or customers. "Parking space, Automobile ": Space within a building or public parking area for the temporary parking or storage of one (1) automobile. "Place ": An open, unoccupied space other than a street or alley, permanently reserved as the principal means of access to abutting property. "Rest Homes ": Same as boarding house, but permitting nursing, dietary and other personal services rendered to con- valescents, invalids and aged persons, but excluding cases of contagious or communicable diseases, and excluding surgery or primary treatments such as are customarily provided in sanitariums and hospitals. "Sanitariums ": A health station or retreat or other place where patients are kept and where medical or surgical treatment is given, but not mental. "Schools, Elementary and High ": An institution of learning which offers instruction in the several branches of learning and study required to be taught in the public schools by the Education Code of the State of California. "Stable, private ": A detached accessory building for the keeping of horses owned by the occupants of the premises, and not kept for remuneration, hire or sale. "Stable, public ": A stable other than a private stable. "Story ": That portion of a building included between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above it, or if there be no floor above it, then the space between -7-