Ordinance Number 591ORDINANCE NO. 591
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO,
CALIFORNIA, ADDING SECTION 9-3.627 TO TITLE 9 OF THE
MUNICIPAL CODE CREATING MINIMUM PROPERTY
MAINTENANCE STANDARDS FOR COMMERCIAL AND
INDUSTRIAL BUILDINGS WITHIN THE CITY OF SAN JUAN
CAPISTRANO
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO, CALIFORNIA, DOES
HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1.
Municipal Code Section 9-3.627 entitled "Minimum Property Maintenance
Standards" is hereby added to Title 9 "Land Use", Chapter 3 "Zoning", Article 6
"Supplementary District Regulations", to read as follows:
"Section 9-3.627. Minimum Property Maintenance Standards
"(a) Purpose and Intent.
"The establishment of minimum property maintenance standards is
designed to promote the proper maintenance of commercial and
industrial properties located adjacent to those major scenic highways
within the City as designated by the City's General Plan. Minimum
property maintenance standards will promote appropriate preventative
maintenance such that commercial and industrial properties would not
create hazardous conditions threatening the public health, safety, or
general welfare of the community, or create visual blight upon the
community.
"(b) Properties Affected.
"Commercial and industrial properties to be subject to the application of
minimum property standards are those located within or about major
scenic highways as designated in Exhibit A attached.
"(c) Minimum Property Maintenance Standards
"It shall be unlawful for any owner of property located within those areas
described in subsection (b) to fail to maintain his/her property to the
minimum levels of maintenance care as set forth below:
"(i) Landscaping.
"All landscaping shall be maintained in a healthy condition free
of dead, decayed, overgrown, or discarded plant material. The
type and location of landscape material shall be maintained
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SECTION 2.
consistent with any approved landscaping plans approved with
any land use entitlement received by the property owner;
Landscape Irrigation.
"Landscape irrigation pipes and sprinkler heads shall be
maintained in good working order so as to cover all landscaped
area;
Tree Trimming.
"Trimming of all trees shall be performed in a manner consistent
with Municipal Code Seciton 9-3.625(d);
Walls. Fences and Other Structures.
"All walls, fences and trash exclosures shall be maintained free
of significant surface cracks, dry rot, warping; missing panels or
blocks which threaten the structure's structural integrity or
appearance;
Parking Lot and Related Surfaces.
"Parking lot surfaces and
maintained in a safe condition
or other driving or walking
buckled or cracked surfaces, o
Building Elevations.
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pedestrian walkways shall be
such that any concrete, asphalt,
surfaces are free of potholes,
raised areas;
"Exterior building elevations shall be maintained in a safe
appearance such that the buildings are free of broken, missing
or significantly cracked surface finished materials;
Trash and Debris.
"The property shall be maintained free of the accumulation of
trash and debris. Trash and debris associated with the
permitted uses are to be stored solely in designated trash
enclosures."
Municipal Code Section 9-3.625(c) entitled "Severe Tree Trimming Prohibited",
of Title 9 "Land Use", Chapter 3 "Zoning", Article 6 "Supplementary District
Regulations", is hereby amended to read as follows:
"Section 9-3.625(c).
Severe Tree Trimming Prohibited.
"No property owner or his agent, in the tourist/commercial (CT),
general/commercial (CG), commercial/manufacturing (CM), industrial park (MP), planned
community (PC), planned development (PD), public and institutional (IP), or design
overlay (D) district, or any residential zoning district located within 500 feet of a scenic
highway or drive, (as defined by the scenic highways element of the General Plan) or
specific stands of trees which may be visible from a scenic highway (as shown on a map
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located in the office of the City Clerk and the Department of Community Planning and
Development and identified as Exhibit C, Section 9-3.625) shall cause any tree on his
property to be severely trimmed.
"It is unlawful for any property owner who has severely trimmed trees to not
allow the trees to regain their prior existing appearance or natural shape."
passage.
SECTION 3. Effective Date.
This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force thirty (30) days after its
SECTION 4. City Clerk's Certification.
The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption of this Ordinance and cause the
same to be published once as required by law and posted at the duly designated posting
places within the City of San Juan Capistrano within fifteen (15) days after its passage.
PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED this 3rd day of February
1987.
KENNETH E. FRIESS, MAYO
ATTEST:
CIIY CLE
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss
CITY OF SAN JUAN CAPISTRANO )
I, MARY ANN HANOVER, City Clerk of the City of San Juan Capistrano,
California, DO HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing is a true and correct copy of
Ordinance No. 591 which was introduced at a meeting of the City Council of the City
of San Juan Capistrano, California, held on Jatuary 20th 1987, and adopted at
a meeting held on February 3rd , 1987, by the following vote:
AYES: Councilmen Schwartze, Bland, Buchheim, Hausdorfer,
and Mayor Friess
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
(SEAL)
MARY ANN HKNOVER, CITY CLERK
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