Ord 1724 - AMENDING THE ZONING ORDINANCE RELATING TO THE LOS GATOS DOWNTOWN PARKING PROGRAMORDINANCE NO. 1724
AN ORDINANCE OF THE TOWN OF LOS GATOS AMENDING
THE ZONING ORDINANCE RELATING TO
THE LOS GATOS DOWNTOWN PARKING PROGRAM
THE TOWN COUNCIL ORDAINS:
SECTION I
SECTION 3.41.020(2) of the Town Zoning Ordinance is repealed.
SECTION II
SECTION 3.41.070 of the Town Zoning Ordinance is amended to read:
SEC. 3.41.070 PROPERTIES IN PARKING DISTRICTS
(1) For any building or open -air use in a public parking district, 'the
number ot require off-street pa .
(a) None, when the ,gross floor area of the building and open area
occupied by a use, combined, do not exceed the area of the
building and open area occupied when the district is formed, or
(b) When the area limitation in part (a) is exceeded, or the use is
intensified, the required number is derived only on the basis of
the excess area.
(2) The creation of a Parking Assessment District relieves those
properties located within the District which were nonconforming as to
parking from having to supply on -site parking spaces in accordance
with Section 3.41.020.
(3) The assessment formula was based on a number of factors that included
existing floor area, existing use, in some cases potential floor area
and included credits - for existing on -site parking spaces and for
participation in past assessment districts.
(4) The Planning Director shall develop a table using the floor area,
parking and previous assessment district information used to
calculate - the parking assessment and translating that information
into a parking credit based on the parking requirements set forth in
Secti on 3.41 .020.
When an application is filed to intensify the use within an existing
building or to expand an existing building, this information will be
used to calculate the amount of on -site parking, if any, that will be
necessary to comply with the parking requirements set forth in
Section 3.41.020.
(5) Any parking spaces that are credited in the parking assessment
district calculation may not be eliminated.
SECTION III
SECTION 3.41.075 of the Town Zoning Ordinance is repealed.
SECTION IV
SECTION 4.52.090 of the Town Zoning Ordinance is added to read:
SEC. 4.52.090 BUILDINGS LOCATED IN A PARKING ASSESSMENT DISTRICT
The floor area ratio for all new buildings or expansion of the gross floor
area of an existing building located on a Parking Assessment District
shall not exceed .60.
In the event a building or buildings which exceed a FAR of .60 within the
Office Zone are destroyed involuntarily, reconstruction to the amount of
the prior floor area shall be allowed, subject to all other provisions of
this ordinance.
SECTION V
SECTION 4.54.100 of the Town Zoning Ordinance is added to read:
SEC. 4.54.100 BUILDINGS LOCATED IN A PARKING ASSESSMENT DISTRICT
The floor area ratio for all new buildings or expansion of the gross floor
area of an existing building located on a Parking Assessment District
shall not exceed .60.
In the event a building or buildings which exceed a FAR of .60 within the
C -1 Zone are destroyed involuntarily, reconstruction to the amount of the
prior floor area shall be allowed, subject to all other provisions of this
ordinance.
SECTION VI
SECTION 5.20.205.2.0 of the Town Zoning Ordinance is amended to read:
2. Community Services
c. Public transportation and parking facilities.
SECTION VII
This ordinance takes effect 30 days after the date it is adopted. Within
15 days after this ordinance is adopted the Town Clerk shall cause it to be
published once in a newspaper of general circulation published and circulated
in the Town.
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This ordinance was introduced at a meeting of the Town Council of the Town
of Los Gatos on March 2nd 1987 and adopted by the following vote as
an ordinance of the own of os Gatos at a regular meeting of the Town Council
on May 18th , 1987•
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS Joanne Benjamin, Eric D. Carlson, and
Mayor Brent N. Ventura
NOES: COUNCIE MEMBERS None
ABSTAIN: COUNCIL MEMBER Thomas J. Ferrito and Robert L. Hamilton
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS None
SIGNED:
MAYO OF OS GTTUS
ATTEST:
R OF—THE—TOWN OF OF OS GAT 0
ZONIN(TC 2/23 #3, p. 6 -8)
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