ORDINANCE 477ORDINANCE NO. ji77
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALI-
FORNIA, FIXING AND ESTABLISHING SET -BACK OR
BUILDING LINES ALONG CERTAIN PORTIONS OF THE
NORTHERLY SIDE OF EL SEGUNDO BOULEVARD WITHIN
SAID CITY.
WHEREAS, the development of the City of E1 Segundo, Cali-
fornia, both with reference to residential, comae rcial and indus-
trial improvements, has been greatly accelerated within the last
few years, and in connection therewith street traffic loads have
also been increased; and
WHEREAS, El Segundo Boulevard, within said City, is a
major artery carrying ever increasing amounts of traffic and it is
indicated that the widening of said boulevard may at some time in
the reasonably forseeable future be required in order to adequate-
ly serve the needs of the City; and
WHEREAS, the construction of fixed improvements upon por-
tions of property which may be required in order to accomplish any
such widening would result not only in increased costs to the pub-
lic, but would also occasion great inconvenience and damage to the
owners of such property; and
WHEREAS, the establishment of set -back or building lines
along the portions of said El Segundo Boulevard hereinafter descri-
bed would serve to- minimize such costs, inconvenience and damage
for all concerned and at the same time provide a means whereby the
properties adjoining said portions of said El Segundo Boulevard
may be developed in a dependable and orderly manner; and
WHEREAS, the matter of said proposed set -back m building
lines has been submitted to the City Planning Commission of the
City of El Segundo and said Commission has recommended to this
Council that said set -back or building lines be established, and
the City Engineer of said City concurs in such recommendations; and
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WHEREAS, upon receipt of such recommendations of said
Commission, the City Council did adopt its Resolution of Inten-
tion No. 1569 declaring its intention to establish such set -back
or building lines, and did in said resolution set the said mat-
ter for a public hearing; to be held before said Council on the
25th day of January, 1956; and public notice of said hearing
was duly and regularly published and posted, all as required in
said Resolution of Intention No. 1569; and
WHEREAS, said City Council did at the time and place
appointed, designated and noticed for said public hearing duly
and regularly conduct the same; and
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WHEREAS, at said public hearing no protests or objec-
tions to said set -back or building lines were presented;
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL SE-
GUNDO, CALIFORNIA, DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Said City Council does hereby find and de-
termine that the facts as recited in the preamble of this ordi-
nance are true.
SECTION 2. That the City Council of the City of El Se-
gundo, California, hereby finds and determines that the public
peace, health, safety, comfort, convenience and general welfare
of said City and of the inhabitants and public thereof, require
that the set -back or building lines hereinabove referred to and
hereinafter described in Sections 3 and L4. of this ordinance be
designated and established, and that the provisions of this ordi-
nance with reference thereto be observed.
SECTION 3. That there shall be and there is hereby
fixed, designated and established a set -back or building line
along the northerly side of El Segundo Boulevard within said City
of El Segundo, California, as said street now exists, and which
said set -back or building line shall be fixed, designated, and
established at a distance of twenty -two (22) feet northerly of
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and parallel with the present northerly line of said El Segundo
Boulevard between Sepulveda Boulevard and Indiana Street.
SECTION 4. That there shall be and there is hereby
fixed, designated and established a set -back or building line
along the northerly side of El Segundo Boulevard within said City
as said street now exists, and which said set -back or building
line shall be fixed, designated and established at a distance of
ten (10) feet northerly of and parallel with the present norther-
ly line of said El Segundo Boulevard between Indiana Street and
Center Street.
SECTION 5. That after the effective date of this ordi-
nance it shall be unlawful, and it is hereby prohibited, for any
person, firm, association or corporation to build, erect, place
or construct, or tc commence to build, erect, place or construct,
the front wall or any side wall, or any other portion of any
building or structure, or any portion of any fixed improvement,
in, on or upon any land or property located between the northerly
line of El Segundo Boulevard, as same now exists, and the set-
back or building lines hereinabove fixed, designated and estab-
lished in Sections 3 and 4 of this ordinance.
SECTION 6. That the provisions of this ordinance shall
not affect buildings, structures or improvements already in place
on properties to which the prohibitions above set forth apply at
the time this ordinance becomes effective.
SECTION 7. That the Building Inspector of said City of
El Segundo be and he is hereby authorized and instructed to re-
frain from issuing, and to refuse to issue, any permit for any
building, structure, wall or fixed improvement or portion thereof
hereinabove prohibited.
SECTION 8. That any person, firm, association or cor-
poration violating any of the provisions of this ordinance shall
be guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction thereof shall be
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punishable by a fine of not to exceed $500.002 or by imprisonment
for not exceeding six months in the City Jail of the City of El
Segundo, California., or in the County Jail of Los Angeles County,
California, as the committing magistrate may direct, or by both
such fine and imprisonment in the discretion of the court.
SECTION 9. That this ordinance shall take effect and
be in full force and virtue thirty days after the final passage
and adoption thereof.
SECTION 10. That the City Clerk shall certify to the
passage and adoption of this ordinance; shall enter the same in
the book of original ordinances of said City; shall make a minute
of the passage and adoption thereof in the records of the meeting
at which the same is passed and adopted; and shall cause the same
to be published once in the El Segundo Herald, a weekly newspaper
of general circulation, published and circulated within said City
of El Segundo, and which is hereby designated for that purpose.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 14th day of February,
1956.
ATTEST:
City Clerk
(SEAL)
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(/ lJ bJ. IA-"a vti n—,--
Mayor of the City of E1 Segundo,
419,� California.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES,
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO.
SS.
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I, Neva M. Elsey, City Clerk of the City of El Segundo,
California, do hereby certify that the whole number of members of
the City Council of the said City is five; that the foregoing or-
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dinance., being Ordinance No. 477 , was passed and adopted by
the said City Council, approved and signed by the Mayor /ofesaid
City, and attested by the City Clerk of said City, all at a regu-
lar meeting of the said Council held on the 14th day of February,
1956, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the follow-
ing vote:
AYES: Councilmen Baker. Frederick, Gordon and Mavor pro
tem Swanson;
NOES: Councilmen None;
ABSENT: Mayor Selby.
WITNESS my hand and the official seal of said City this
14th day of February, 1956.
(SEAL)
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City Clerk of the C' y of
El Segundo, Califor ia.
STATE OF CALIFORNIA, )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, ) SS.
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO. )
I, Neva M. Elsey,
California, do hereby certif
the City Council of the said
ordinance, being Ordinance N
rect original of Ordinance N
gundo, California, entitled:
City Clerk of the City of E1 Segundo,
y that the whole number of members of
City is five; that the foregoing
o. 477 , is a full, true and cor-
n. 477 , of the said City of E1 Se-
"SAN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
CALIFORNIA, FIXING AND ESTABLISHING SET-
BACK OR BUILDING LINES ALONG CERTA?N
PORTIONS OF THE NORTHERLY SIDE OF EL
SEGUNDO BOULEVARD WITHIN SAID CITY.".
which was duly passed and ado pgf e�y the said City Council, ap-
proved and signed by the Mayo /osaid City, and attested by the
City Clerk of said City, all at a regular meeting of the said
Council held on the 14th day of February, 1956, and that the same
was so passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen Baker, Frederick, Gordon and Mayor pro
tem Swanson;
NOES: Councilmen None;
ABSENT: Mayor Selby.
I do hereby further certify that pursuant to the pro-
visions of Section 36933 of the Government Code of the State of
California, that the foregoing Ordinance No. 474 was duly and
regularly published according to law and the order of the City
Council of said City in the E1 Segundo Herald, a weekly newspaper
of general circulation, printed, published and circulated within
the said City and that the same was so published therein on the
following date, to wit: FPhrilg r;, 16th- 195h_
City Clerk of the it o
E1 Segundo, Californ'
(SEAL)
Affidavit of Publication
STATE OF CALIFORNIA,
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES, ss
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO,
Julia: J&icobs
... ............................... ..........................being first duly sworn, deposes and says: That
he is, and at all of the times hereinafter mentioned was, a citizen of the United States of America,
over the age of eighteen years, and resident of the County of Los Angeles, State of California ; that he
was, at, and during all of the time of the publication of the instrument hereunto attached the........
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Editor of EL SEGUNDO ITEPALD, a newspaper of general circulation, published and circulated weekly in
the City of El Segundo, in said- County and State; that said newspaper has been so published and
circulated at regular intervals of one week for more than one year immediately preceding the
nublication of the instrument hereunto annexed; that said newspaper is, and was, at all of the times
herein mentioned, a newspaper of general circulation within the meaning of Section 4460 of the Political
Code of the State of California; that as provided by said section, said newspaper is published for the
dissemination of local or telegraphic news and intelligence of a general character, having a bons fide
subscription list of paying subscribers; that said newspaper is not and was not at any of the times herein
referred to, devoted to the interests, or published for the entertainment or instruction of a particular
class, profession, trade, calling, race or denomination, or for any number of such classes, professions, trades,
callings, races or denominations, and that said newspaper is not devoted to or published for, nor Was it
at any of the times herein mentioned devoted to or published for the purpose, whether avowed )r
otherwise, of entertaining or instructing such classes, professions, trades, callings, races or denomin-
ations, or any of such classes, professions, trades, callings, races or denominations.
That the notice, order, ordinance, resolution or instrument hereunto attached on page...... numbered
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hereof in all respects, including subject matter, and size and arrangement of type, is a full, true and
correct copy of the said notice, ordinance, resolution or instrument, in words and figures exactly as
published; that the same was set and printed in type not smaller than nonpareil and that the body of
the same was preceded with words printed in black -face type not smaller than nonpareil, describing
and expressing in general terms the purpose and character of the notice, order, ordinance, resolution
or instrument intended to be published, as will appear from an inspection of the said annexed instru-
ment; that the.... 9rd inanee N0.477 .......................... ...............................
of which the annexed is a printed copy as hereinabove stated, was published and printed in said news-
paper at least.... ...week... by. ...One .....consecutive publication. ..., commencing on the
16.. .day ofi.c.brL.a...T._19L%.. , A. D. ..... ,and ending on the...lEt�•,,,,,,,,,da o!
• • • • • l••'1• ,r�r ... .......A. D. 19. J 6 , and as often during
g said time as said newspaper Was regu-
larly issued, to- wit: ..... P11b11SYlc once � :.'. r.lary 16 1.7`C� .
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Subscribed -and /sworn to before me this. rQ .4....1...
day of ..v�!u- ........ A. D. 195 L .
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City clerk of the City of El do, County
of Los Angeles, State California.
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Deputy City Clerk of said City.