HomeMy WebLinkAbout244 - Ordinances ORDINANCE NO. 244
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF RANCHO CUCAMONGA, CALIFORNIA,
ESTABLISHING A MORATORIUM ON THE FILING OF CERTAIN LAND
DIVISION APPLICATIONS AND RESIDENTIAL DEVELOPMENT
APPLICATIONS IN THE ETIWANDA SPECIFIC PLAN AREA AND
DECLARING THE URGENCY THEREOF
The City Council of the City of Rancho Cucamonga, California, does
ordain as follows:
SECTION 1: The City Council hereby finds that:
A. Recently interest and actual development activity in the Etiwanda
Specific Plan area has been on the increase. This increase in activity has
raised concerns as to the adequacy of drainage facilities throughout the
Etiwanda and Foothill Community Plan areas.
B. At the present time the area referred to above lacks a Master
Plan of Drainage which reflects the recently completed planning process and
major changes in the Day Etiwanda and San Sevaine Channels which are currently
being considered for adoption by the County and the Cities of Rancho
Cucamonga, Fontana and Ontario.
C. Because of the lack of adequate regional and local drainage
facilities in the Etiwanda Specific Plan area, it is contemplated that the
Master Plan of Drainage may include recommendations for development phasing
and implementation guidelines within the Etiwanda Specific Plan area.
D. That it is in the best interests of the City, in order to protect
the health, safety and general welfare of the citizens of the City to impose
certain restrictions, as hereinafter enumerated, on the filing and processing
of certain land division applications for residential development pending
completion of the aforesaid Master Plan of Drainage.
SECTION 2: The City shall not accept for filing any tentative map or
maps for residential subdivisions within the Etiwanda Specific Plan area.
SECTION 3: The City shall not accept for filing any parcel map or
maps for residential subdivisions within the Etiwanda Specific Plan area,
provided, however, that this section shall not apply to a parcel map with
respect to which a required tentative map was filed prior to the effective
date of this Ordinance.
SECTION 4: The City shall not accept for filing any application or
applications for development design review of residential projects within the
Etiwanda Specific Plan area.
SECTION 5: Nothing in this Ordinance shall prevent the further
processing, approval or conditional approval, of any tentative map, parcel map
or application for development/design review which was submitted for filing
prior to the effective date of this Ordinance.
SECTION 6: Unless sooner repealed or extended by the City Council,
the moratorium imposed by this Ordinance shall expire March 20, 1985.
SECTION 7: The City Council hereby declares that it would have
adopted this Ordinance and each section, sub-section, sentence, clause, phrase
or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections,
sub-sections, sentences, clauses, phrases or portions thereof may be declared
invalid or unconstitutional, then all other provisions thereof shall remain
valid and enforceable.
SECTION 8: This Ordinance is hereby declared an urgency measure
necessary for the immediate protection and preservation of the public peace,
health, safety and welfare for the reaons stated in Section 1 hereof and shall
take effect immediately upon its adoption.
Ordinance No. 244
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SECTION 9: The Mayor shall sign this Ordinance and the City Clerk
shall attest to the same, and the City Clerk shall cause the same to be
published within fifteen (15) days after its passage at least once in The
Daily Report, a newspaper of general circulation published in the City of
Ontario, California, and circulated in the City of Rancho Cucamonga,
California.
PASSED, APPROVED, and ADOPTED this 7th day of November, 1984.
AYES: Wright, Mikels, Dahl, King
NOES: None
ABSENT: Buquet
ATTEST:
Beverly/A. Authelet, City Clerk