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ORDINANCE 1095ORDINANCE NO. 1095 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, ADDING SECTION 20.46.050 TO CHAPTER 20.46 OF THE EL SEGUNDO MUNICIPAL CODE, WHICH SECTION RELATES TO UNCLASSIFIED USE PERMITS FOR AIRPORTS OR LANDING FIELDS INCLUDING HELICOPTER LANDING FACILITIES. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Chapter 20.46 of the E1 Segundo Municipal Code is hereby amended by adding Section 20.46.050 to read as follows: 1120.46.050 UNCLASSIFIED USE PERMITS FOR AIRPORTS OR LANDING FIELDS INCLUDING HELICOPTER LANDING FACILITIES. A. The provisions of this Section shall apply to all Unclassified Use Permits issued for helicopter landing facilities, with the following exceptions: (1) Emergency, medical, police, fire and other public and private use of helicopter landing facilities with substantial public health and safety benefits shall be permitted within the City. (2) Helicopter landing facilities shall be permitted at the oil refinery site west of Sepulveda Boulevard. B. Unclassified Use Permits for helicopter landing facilities may be issued after satisfactory evidence has been presented to the City Council demonstrating that: (1) the use of the helicopter landing facility shall not significantly increase community exposure to adverse health, safety, noise or nuisance impacts; (2) the use of the helicopter landing facility shall be accessory and incidental to the primary use of property; (3) the use of the helicopter landing facility for regularly scheduled commercial flight operations such as, but not limited to, bank operations and commuter passenger service operations, shall be prohibited; (4) the helicopter landing facility shall not be established within 2500 feet of an existing operating facility; and -1- 31787- ORD.PL (5) the helicopter landing facility shall not be established west of Sepulveda Boulevard in the City of E1 Segundo. C. Unclassified Use Permits issued for helicopter landing facilities shall be subject to the following conditions: (1) Flight operations of all helistops shall take place only during the hours of 7:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, except that operation may be permitted until 9:00 p.m., if necessary to accommodate a business emergency. If an operation is conducted between 7:00 p.m. and 9:00 p.m., Monday through Friday, for a business emergency, the permittee shall notify the Planning Department on the next business day of the circumstances justifying that operation. Flight operations will not be allowed on New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving or Christmas Day. (2) The intermittent use of helicopters for maintenance, construction, moving of equipment and other spot usage on Saturdays and Sundays and outside of specified operating hours may be allowed subject to prior reasonable notification and approval by the City. (3) Each operator of a helicopter landing facility shall provide to City and keep current: (a) the name and phone number of a contact person available 24 hours per day; (b) a list of helicopters using the facility, together with their corresponding identification numbers; and (c) the noise and performance specifications of said helicopter. (4) A "Fly Neighborly Program" shall be filed with the City prior to the commencement of operations and approved by the Director of Planning and the City's Noise Abatement Officer. The program shall emphasize noise abatement and community awareness through actions in at least the following areas: Pilot awareness and sensitivity to community concerns Pilot training and flight operations planning Public information (5) All helicopters using the landing facility shall have large size identification ( "N ") numbers, a minimum of 12 inches in size on the bottom of the craft, except for helicopters which use the landing facility less than 5% of total operations of the facility per month. (6) All helicopters using the landing facility shall be equipped with a Mode A/3 transponder with Mode C altitude reporting capabilities. -2- 31787- ORD.PL (7) Helicopter landing facility owners and operators shall enter into an indemnification agreement with the City and shall provide adequate proof of liability insurance to the approval and satisfaction of the City Attorney. (8) All UUPs for helicopter landing facilities shall be reviewed by the Planning Commission every two years. A monitoring report shall be prepared by the applicant and submitted to the Planning Department of the City of E1 Segundo prior to the expiration of two years. Such report shall consist of data on the types of helicopters using a facility, hours of operation, performance standards, number of monthly flights, and all other relevant data as determined by the City. (9) Any other conditions reasonably related to the operation of the helicopter landing facility." SECTION 3. This ordinance shall become effective at midnight on the thirtieth day from and after the final passage and adoption hereof. SECTION 4. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage and adoption of this ordinance; shall cause the same to be entered 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 within fifteen days after the passage and adoption thereof, cause the same to be published once in the E1 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 17th day of March, 1987. ( SEAL) 1�D :)f `thy City of El Segundo, California -3- 31787- ORD.PL STATE OF CALIFORNIA ) COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS CITY OF EL SEGUNDO ) I, Ronald L. Hart, City Clerk of the City of E1 Segundo, California, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the whole number of members of the City Council of the said City is five; that the foregoing ordinance, being Ordinance No. 1095 is a full, true and correct original of Ordinance No. 1095 of the said City of E1 Segundo, California, entitled: AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA, ADDING SECTION 20.46.050 TO CHAPTER 20.46 OF THE EL SEGUNDO MUNICIPAL CODE, WHICH SECTION RELATES TO UNCLASSIFIED USE PERMITS FOR AIRPORTS OR LANDING FIELDS INCLUDING HELICOPTER LANDING FACILITIES. which was duly passed and adopted by the said City Council, approved and signed by the Mayor of said City, and attested by the City Clerk of said City, all at a regular meeting of the said Council held on the 17th day of March, 1987, and that the same was so passed and adopted by the following vote: AYES: Councilmembers Anderson, Jacobson, Schuldt, West, and Mayor Siadek NOES: None ABSENT: None I do hereby further certify that pursuant to the provisions of Section 36933 of the Government Code of the State of California, that the foregoing Ordinance No. 1095 was dully 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 said City and that the same was so published therein on the following date, to wit: March 26, 1987. City Clerk of the City of E1 Segundo, California (SEAL)