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1 tained, but which, because of the application of this ordinance to it, no longer
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4 Section 262: NONCONFORMING USE. "Nonconforming use" means a use which
5 was lawfully established and maintained but which, because of the application
6 of this ordinance to it, no longer conforms to the use regulations of the zone
7 in which it is located. A nonconforming building, or nonconforming portion of
8 the building shall be deemed to constitute a nonconforming use of the land upon
9 which it is located.
10 Section 263: OUTDOOR ADVERTISING DISPLAY. "Outdoor advertising display"
11 means any card, paper, cloth, metal, glass, wooden or other display or device
12 of any kind or character whatsoever placed for outdoor advertising purposes
13 on the ground or on any tree, wall, rock, structure or thing whatsoever.
14 Section 264: OUTDOOR ADVERTISING STRUCTURE. "Outdoor advertising struc-
15 ture" means a structure of any kind or character erected or maintained for
16 outdoor advertising purposes, upon which any outdoor advertising display may
17 be placed.
18 Section 265: PARCEL. "Parcel" means a piece of real property other than
19 a lot as defined herein, or any piece of land other than a lot which is occu-
2 0 pied or used as a single unit.
21 Section 266: REST HOME OR GUEST ROME. "Rest home1t or "Guest home" means
22 a home operated as a boarding home, and in which nursing, dietary and other
23 personal services are furnished to convalescents, invalids and aged persons;
24 but in which are kept no persons suffering from a mental sickness, disease,
25 disorder or ailment or from a contagious or communicable disease, and in which
26 are performed no surgical or other primary treatments such as are customarily
27 provided in sanitariums or hospitals or in which no persons are kept or served
28 who normally would be admittable to a mental hospital.
29 Section 267: SANITARIUM. "Sanitarium" means a health station or retreat
30 or other place where resident patients are kept, and which specializes in giving
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1 law to provide facilities and services in surgery, obstetrics and general med-
2 ical practice as distinguished from treatment of mental and nervous disorders,
3 but not excluding surgical and post surgical treatment of mental cases.
4 Section 268: SCHOOLS, EI MENTARY, JUNIOR HIGH AND HIGH. "Schools ",
5 "elementary school ", "junior high school" and "high school" means an institution
6 of learning which offers instruction in the several branches of learning and
7 study required to be taught in the public schools by the Education Code of the
8 State of California.
9 Section 269: SERVICE STATION. "Service Stationt1 means a filling station
10 to supply motor fuel and oil to motor vehicles and including grease racks or
11 elevators and providing minor tire and battery servicing and sales of motor ve-
12 hicle accessories.
13 Section 270: SIGN. "Sign" means any outdoor advertising display or out-
14 door advertising structure or any indoor advertising display or indoor advertis-
15 ing structure designed and placed so as to be readable principally from the
16 outside.
17 Section 271: STABLE, PRIVATE. "Private stable" means a detached acces-
1 8 sory building in which horses owned by the occupants of the premises are kept,
19 and in which no horses are kept for hire or sale.
20 Section 272: STABLE, PUBLIC. "Public stable" means a stable other than
21 a private stable.
22 Section 273: STAND. "Stand" means a structure for the display and sale
23 of products with no space for customers within the structure itself.
24 Section 274: STATE FREEWAY. "State Freeway" means any section of a State
25 Highway which has been declared to be a Freeway by Resolution of the California
26 Highway Commission pursuant to Section 100.3 of the Streets and Highways Code.
27 Section 275: STORY. "Story" means that portion of a building included
28 between the surface of any floor and the surface of the floor next above it.
29 If there be no floor above it, then the space between such floor and the ceiling
30 next above it shall be considered a story.
31 Section 276. STREET. "Street" means a public or recorded private thor-
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Section 278; STREET, SIDE. NSide street" means a street which is adjacent
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to a corner lot and which extends in the general direction of the line deter-
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Section 2791 STRUCTURE. "Structure" means anything constructed or erected
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which requires location on the ground or attached to something having a location
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on the ground, but not including fences or walls used as fences less than six
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columns, beams, floor or roof joists, girders or rafters, or changes in the roof
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or exterior lines if such changes result in any enlargement of the building.
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Section 2811 SUPER SERVICE STATION. "Super service station" shall mean
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a service station which supplies any or all of the motor fuel and oil to motor
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vehicles having more than one (1) grease rack or elevator, wash racks or pits,
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tire repairs, battery servicing and repairing, ignition service, sales of motor
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vehicle accessories and other customary services for automobiles, including
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tire recapping where the equipment for such recapping does not exceed four (4)
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molds, but excluding painting, body works and repairs and steam cleaning.
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Section 2821 TO PLACE. The verb "to place" and any of its variants as
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Section 2831 TRAILER, AUTOMOBILE. "Automobile trailer" means a vehicle
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without motor power, designed to be drawn by a motor vehicle and to be used for
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and any self- propelled vehicle having a body designed for the same uses as an
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2 Section 285: USE. "Use" means the purpose for which land or building is
3 arranged, designed or intended, or for which either is or may be occupied or
4 maintained.
5 Section 286: VARIANCE. "Variance" means a modification of the specific
6 regulations of this ordinance granted by resolution of the Planning Commission in
7 accordance with the terms of this ordinance for the purpose of assuring that no
8 property, because of special circumstances applicable to it, shall be deprived
9 of privileges commonly enjoyed by other properties in the same vicinity and zone.
10 Section 287: YARD. "Yard" means an open space other than a court, on a
11 lot, unoccupied and unobstructed from the ground upward, except as otherwise
12 provided in this ordinance.
13 I Section 288: YARD, FRONT. "Front yard" means a yard extending across the
14 full width of the lot, having at no point less than the minimum required horizon-
15 tal distance between the front lot line and the closest permissible location of
16 the main building. Said distance shall be measured by a line at right angles to
17 the front lot line, or by the radial line in the case of a curved front lot line.
18 When a lot lies partially within a planned street indicated on an official plan
19 for such a street, and where such planned street is of the type that will afford
20 legal access to such lot, the depth of the front yard shall be measured from the
21 contiguous edge of such planned street in the manner prescribed in this defin—
22 ition. (Plate 4)
23 Section 289: YARD, REAR LINE OF REQUIRED FRONT. "Rear line of the re-
24 quired front yard" means a line parallel to the front lot line and at a distance
25 therefrom equal to the depth of the required front yard, and extending across
26 the full width of the lot. ( Plate: 4)
27 Section 290: YARD, REAR. "Rear yard" means a yard extending across the
28 full width of the lot, the depth of which yard shall be the minimum required
29 horizontal distance as measured from the part of the main building nearest the
30 rear lot line towards the rear lot line, and such measurement shall be along a
31 line representing the shortest distance between the portion of the building
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1 Section 291: YARD, SIDE. "Side yard" means a yard between the main
2 building and the side lot lines extending from the rear line of the required
3 front yard, or the front lot line where no front yard is required, to the rear
4 yard, the width of which side yard shall be measured horizontally from, and at
5 right angles to, the nearest point of a side lot line towards the nearest part
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ESTABLISHMENT OF ZONES, THE BOUNDARIES THEREOF,
AND LIMITING THE USES OF LAND THEREON
Section 300: NAMES OF
ZONES. 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,
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Section 301: DEGREE OF RESTRICTIVENESS. "More restrictive usesu as
employed in this ordinance means the following:
(1) Those uses first permitted in the R-1 zone are the most restric-
tine.
(2) All other uses are less restrictive in the order they are first
permitted in the zones in the sequence shown --- R -2, R-3, P, 0-1, C -29 C-M, M -1
and M -2.
Section 302: ESTABLISHMENT OF ZONES BY MAP. The location and boundaries
of the various zones are such as are shown and delineated on the "Zoning Map of
the City of B1 Segundo" which map is attached hereto and made a part of this
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1 Section 303: DIVISION OF ZONING MAP. The zoning map may, for convenience,
2 be divided into parts and each such part may, for purposes of more readily iden-
3 tifying areas within such zoning map, be subdivided into units and such parts
4 and units may be separately employed for purposes of amending the zoning map or
5 for any official reference to the zoning map.
6 Section 304: CHANGES IN BOUNDARIES. Changes in the boundaries of the
7 zones shall be made by ordinance adopting an amended zoning map, or part of said
8 map, or unit of a part of said zoning map, which said amended maps, or parts or
9 units of parts, when so adopted, shall be published in the manner prescribed by
10 law and become a part of this Ordinance.
11 Section 305: UNCERTAINTY OF BOUNDARIES. Where uncertainty exists as to
12 the boundaries of any zone shown upon a zoning map or any part or unit thereof,
13 the following rules of construction shall apply:
14 (1) Where such boundaries are indicated as approximately following
15 1 street and alley lines or lot lines, such lines shall be construed to be such
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17 (2) In the case of unsubdivided property, and where a zone boundary
1-8 divides a lot, the location of such boundaries, unless the same are indicated
19 by dimensions, shall be determined by use of the scale appearing on said zoning
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21 (3) Where a public street or alley is officially vacated or abandoned,
22 the area comprising such vacated street or alley shall acquire the classification
23 of the property to which it reverts.
24 (4) Areas of dedicated streets or alleys and railroad rights -or -way,
25 other than such as are designated on the zoning map as being classified in one
26 of the zones provided in this ordinance, shall be deemed to be unclassified and,
27 in the case of streets, permitted to be used only for purposes lawfully allowed
28 and, in the case of railroad rights -of -way, permitted to be used solely for the
29 purpose of accomodating tracks, signals, other operative devices and the movement
30 of rolling stock.
31 Section 306: CIASSIFICATION OF ANNEXED LANDS. Any land hereafter annexed
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tablished hereby shall be deemed to be temporarily zoned R-1 (single family res-
idential) until said land is reclassified after being processed as an amendment
to the Zone Plan pursuant to this ordinance and Chapter I, Title 7 of the Govern-
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Section 3078 LIMITATION OF LAND USE. Except as provided in this ordinance,
no building shall be erected, reconstructed or structurally altered, nor shall
any building or land be used for any purpose except as hereinafter specifically
provided and allowed in the same zone in which such building and land is located.
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R - 1 - ONE- FAMILY ZONE (R-1 ZONE)
Section 400: LAND USE. In an R-1 zone no building shall be erected,
reconstructed or structurally altered, nor shall any building or land be used
for any purpose except as hereinafter specifically provided and allowed by this
Article, subject to the provisions of Article 14 governing off - street parking
requirements. In an R-1 zone the following uses are permitted.
(1) One - family dwellings of a permanent character placed in a per-
manent location.
(2) Accessory buildings and structures, including private garages to
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(a) An accessory building may not occupy more than thirty per-
cent (30%) of a required rear yard.
(b) An accessory building more than one (1) story in height shall
not occupy any part of a required rear yard.
(c) An accessory building shall not
(10) feet to the nearest part of a main building.
(d) An accessory building shall not
quired front or side yard, and if placed in the fro
the depth of the lot, or the front eighty -five (85)
it shall maintain a distance from the side lot line
quired side yard.
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(e) On a reversed corner lot an accessory building shall not be
erected closer than five (5) feet to the line of any abutting lot to the rear,
nor shall project beyond the rear line of the required front yard of the abut-
ting lot to the rear. (Plate 5)
(3) Chickens (hens only and not to exceed twenty -four (24)).
(4) Private greenhouses and horticultural collections.
(5) Public playgrounds.
(6) Rabbits, chinchillas, hamsters and other small animals raised
for food, scientific or fur bearing purposes, provided not more than twenty -four
(24) of any one or combination of such animals or chickens may be maintained on
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