ORDINANCE 1458ORDINANCE NO. 1458
AN ORDINANCE APPROVING A SPECIFIC PLAN AMENDMENT AND
A ZONE TEXT AMENDMENT TO AMEND THE SMOKY HOLLOW
SPECIFIC PLAN AND THE PERMITTED USES IN THE SMALL
BUSINESS (SB) AND MEDIUM MANUFACTURING (MM) ZONES TO
ALLOW ART STUDIOS AND A WIDER RANGE OF OFFICE USES.
The City Council of the city of El Segundo does ordain as follows:
SECTION 1: The City Council incorporates by reference all of the findings and
conclusions set forth in Planning Commission Resolution No. 2684 as if fully set forth.
SECTION 2: Environmental Assessment. The City Council certifies the Negative
Declaration of Environmental Impacts proposed for this project pursuant to CEQA
Guidelines §15070. A Notice of Intent to Adopt a Negative Declaration was prepared
pursuant to CEQA Guidelines §§ 15072 and 15073 and was available for public
comment from November 5, 2010 to December 6, 2010.
SECTION 3: El Segundo Municipal Code ( "ESMC ") § 15- 11- 2(E)(1)(a) is amended to
read as follows:
"Small Business Area: This district covers the portion of the Specific Plan
area from Standard Street to the alley east of Lomita Street. The area is
characterized by smaller or incubator industrial and manufacturing uses located
on small parcels, many without off - street parking. It is an area in which small
"incubator" business concerns exist and many continue to flourish. Presently,
one hundred twelve (112) various parcels exist in the area. Seventy eight (78) of
the parcels, seventy percent (70 %) of the existing parcels, are under ten
thousand (10,000) square feet in size, many are under five thousand (5,000)
square feet. The desire is to maintain a small industrial business environment,
but not to preclude lot consolidation, business expansion and growth. Design
guidelines will allow some flexibility to achieve visual enhancement of the area.
The small business area is a transition between the pedestrian scale downtown
and the medium sized manufacturing area to the east. Uses will basically remain
the same as at present, with an emphasis on the smaller industrial user and
limited general and multimedia related office space."
SECTION 4: ESMC § 15 -6C -1 is amended to read as follows:
"PURPOSE: The purpose of this zone is to perpetuate the existence of the small
business and incubator industrial user in the Smoky Hollow area. As such, this zone is
to be utilized only within the boundaries of the Smoky Hollow specific plan. It is
recognized that the areas that provide small businesses a place to establish and
prosper are becoming more and more scarce and at the same time becoming
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increasingly desirable. This unique environment is felt to be an appropriate location for
light industrial activities, research, and technological processes, restaurants, cafeterias
and offices. It is also the purpose of this zone to allow maximum site development
flexibility in return for well conceived and efficient site planning and landscaping to
complement the good development which presently exists in the area."
SECTION 5: ESMC § 15 -6C -2 is amended to read as follows:
"PERMITTED USES: The following uses are permitted in the SB zone:
A. Art studios (Production space only).
B. General offices in conjunction with any other permitted use as long as the office
use does not occupy in excess of forty percent (40 %) of the total building square
footage.
C. General and /or multimedia related offices, up to fifteen thousand (15,000) square
feet per site.
D. Light industrial uses.
E. Manufacturing.
F. Public facilities and utilities.
G. Research and development.
H. Restaurants and cafes without drive - through facilities.
Warehousing and distribution.
J. Other similar uses approved by the Director of Planning and Building Safety, as
provided by chapter 22 of this title."
SECTION 6: ESMC § 15 -6D -1 is amended to read as follows:
"PURPOSE: The purpose of this zone is to provide a transitional land use area
between the high intensity aircraft/aerospace office uses east of Sepulveda Boulevard
and the small single parcel industrial businesses of the westerly portion of the Smoky
Hollow area. As such, the zone is to be utilized only within the boundaries of the Smoky
Hollow specific plan. This zone provides for the continuation and development of
medium size light industrial, manufacturing, and limited office activities."
SECTION 7: ESMC § 15 -6D -2 is amended to read as follows:
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"PERMITTED USES: The following uses are permitted in the MM zone:
A. Art studios (Production space only).
B. General offices in conjunction with any other permitted use as long as the office
does not occupy in excess of sixty percent (60 %) of the total building square
footage.
C. General and/or multimedia related offices, up to fifteen thousand (15,000) square
feet per site, except for mixed use projects of 30,000 square feet or more, in
which the size may be greater.
D. Light assembly and processing.
E. Light industrial.
F. Manufacturing.
G. Mixed use projects including commercial, office and light industrial uses. In
mixed use projects of 30,000 square feet or more where the light industrial uses
make up at least fifty percent (50 %) of the total project's square footage.
H. Parking structures and parking lots.
Public facilities, public utilities.
J. Research and development.
K. Restaurants and cafes without drive - through facilities.
L. Retail sales for wholesale outlets.
M. Warehousing and distribution.
N. Other similar uses approved by the Director of Planning and Building Safety, as
provided by chapter 22 of this title."
SECTION 8: CONSTRUCTION. This Ordinance must be broadly construed in order to
achieve the purposes stated in this Ordinance. It is the City Council's intent that the
provisions of this Ordinance be interpreted or implemented by the City and others in a
manner that facilitates the purposes set forth in this Ordinance.
SECTION 9: ENFORCEABILITY. Repeal of any provision of the ESMC does not affect
any penalty, forfeiture, or liability incurred before, or preclude prosecution and
imposition of penalties for any violation occurring before this Ordinance's effective date.
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Any such repealed part will remain in full force and effect for sustaining action or
prosecuting violations occurring before the effective date of this Ordinance.
SECTION 10: VALIDITY OF PREVIOUS CODE SECTIONS. If this entire
Ordinance or its application is deemed invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, any
repeal or amendment of the ESMC or other city ordinance by this Ordinance will be
rendered void and cause such previous SSMC provision or other the city ordinance to
remain in full force and effect for all purposes.
SECTION 11: If any part of this Ordinance or its application is deemed invalid by a
court of competent jurisdiction, the city council intends that such invalidity will not affect
the effectiveness of the remaining provisions or applications and, to this end, the
provisions of this Ordinance are severable.
SECTION 12: The City Clerk is directed to certify the passage and adoption of this
Ordinance; cause it to be entered into the City of El Segundo's book of original
ordinances; make a note of the passage and adoption in the records of this meeting;
and, within fifteen (15) days after the passage and adoption of this Ordinance, cause it
to be published or posted in accordance with California law.
SECTION 13: This Ordinance will remain effective until superseded by a subsequent
ordinance.
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SECTION 14: This Ordinance will become effective on the thirty -first (31st) day
following its passage and adoption.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 1 st day of February, 2011.
Eric Busch, Mayor
ATTEST:
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS
CITY OF EL SEGUNDO )
I, Cindy Mortesen, City Clerk of the City of El Segundo, California, do hereby certify that
the whole number of members of the City Council of said City is five; that the foregoing
Ordinance No. 1458 was duly introduced by said City Council at a regular meeting held
on the 18th day of January, 2011, and was duly passed and adopted by said City
Council, approved and signed by the Mayor, and attested to by the City Clerk, all at a
regular meeting of said Council held on the 1 st day of February, 2011, and the same
was so passed and adopted by the following vote:
AYES:
Busch, Fisher, Brann, Fuentes. Jacobson
NOES:
None
ABSENT:
None
ABSTAIN:
None
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Cindy Mortesen, City Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Mark D. Hensley, City Attorney
By: � . &4_,—�
Karl H. Berger, Assiis ant City Attorney
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