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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GATOS DOWNTOWN PARKING PROGRAM THE TOWN COUNCIL ORDAINS: SECTION I SECTION 3.41.020(2) of the Town Zoning Ordinance is repealed.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 SECTION III SECTION 3.41.075 of the Town Zoning Ordinance is repealed.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. - 2 - 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) - 3 -