ORD 10-09 Amending 17.34.110.E Modify Parking Structure Space DimensionsORDINANCE NO. 10-
09 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF ORANGE AMENDING
SECTION 17.34.110.E OF THE ORANGE MUNICIPAL
CODE TO MODIFY PARKING STRUCTURE
SPACE DIMENSIONS TO BE CONSISTENT WITH
THE DIMENSIONS OF SURFACE PARKING
LOT
SPACES.WHEREAS, the City's parking standards were last comprehensively updated
in 1995;
and WHEREAS, in recent years the operating characteristics of land uses such
as residential development, churches, and gas stations have evolved in a manner that the City'
s parking standards have been found, in practice, to have diminished relevance;
and WHERAS, the City of Orange desires to provide for adequate parking for all of
its land uses to minimize impacts to the quality and character of its neighborhoods
and commercial districts related to insufficient parking conditions;
and WHEREAS, the City of Orange desires to appropriately size parking spaces in
order to maximize the utility of both parking spaces and associated parking lots;
and WHEREAS, the City Council adopted Ordinance No. 17-08 in December
2008, an Ordinance Amendment that included modification to the City's standards for
parking space dimensions in surface parking lots, but inadvertently failed to also modify the
dimensions for parking spaces in a parking
structure; and WHEREAS, the proposed Ordinance Amendment is exempt from the
requirement of the California Environmental Quality Act by the Guidelines of the
California Environmental Quality Act under Section 15305 (Class 5, Minor Alterations in Land Use
Limitations); and WHEREAS, the proposed Ordinance Amendment revising provisions of
the Code related to parking standards for residential, church, and gas station
parking requirements,special status parking spaces, and and parking space dimensions is found to
be consistent with the Circulation Element of the General
Plan; and WHEREAS, the Planning Commission having conducted a public hearing
held on May 18, 2009 including review of the staff report and receiving public testimony on
the item,has determined the proposed amendment is justified and recommends approval
thereof; and WHEREAS, the City Council conducted one duly advertised public hearing
on June 23, 2009, at which time interested persons had an opportunity to testify either in support
of or opposition to the proposed modification to parking structure space
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF ORANGE
CITY OF ORANGE
I, MARY E. MURPHY, City Clerk of the City of Orange, California, do hereby
certify that the foregoing Ordinance was introduced at the regular meeting of the City
Council held on the 23rd day of June, 2009 and thereafter at the regular meeting of said City
Council duly held on the 14th day of July, 2009, was duly passed and adopted by the
following vote, to wit:
AYES:COUNCILMEMBERS:Smith, Murphy, Cavecche, Dumitru, Bilodeau
NOES:COUNCILMEMBERS:None
ABSENT:COUNCILMEMBERS:None
ABSTAIN:COUNCILMEMBERS:None
Ma , u y, City of Orange