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Home My WebLink About2019-04-22 Ordinance 546220190410 ay 0160012 Amending ORD 18.18 (DC) District 1 Ordinance No. 5462 Ordinance of the Council of the City of Palo Alto Amending Section 18.18.120 (Grandfathered Uses and Facilities) of Chapter 18.18 (Downtown Commercial District) of Title 18 (Zoning) of the Palo Alto Municipal Code (PAMC) to Adjust Regulations Relating to Noncomplying Facilities. The Council of the City of Palo Alto ORDAINS as follows: SECTION 1. Findings and declarations. The City Council finds and declares as follows: A. Section 18.18.120 of the Palo Alto Municipal Code governs permissible noncomplying uses and facilities in the Downtown Commercial zone district. B. In 2016, the provisions of Section 18.18.120 governing noncomplying facilities seeking to remodel, improve, or replace site improvements were updated to: 1) allow minor modifications to building envelope through Architectural Review; and 2) require that such facilities maintain continual use and occupancy for the same use. C. The requirement that noncomplying facilities maintain continual use and occupancy for the same use has resulted in potentially unintended consequences, including the inability to change among similar permitted and conditionally permitted uses in noncomplying facilities, such as a change from eating and drinking services to retail uses. SECTION 2. Section 18.18.120 (Grandfathered Uses and Facilities) of Chapter 18.18 (Downtown Commercial (CD) District) of Title 18 (Zoning) is hereby amended to read as follows: 18.18.120 Noncomplying (Grandfathered) Uses and Facilities (a) Noncomplying (Grandfathered) Uses (1) The following uses and facilities may remain as legal noncomplying (grandfathered) uses, and shall not require a conditional use permit or be subject to the provisions of Chapter 18.70: (A) Any use which was being conducted on August 28, 1986; or (B) A use not being conducted on August 28, 1986, if the use was temporarily discontinued due to a vacancy of 6 months or less before August 28, 1986; or (C) Any office use existing on April 16, 1990 on a property zoned CD and GF combining, which also existed as a lawful conforming use prior to August 28, 1986, notwithstanding any intervening conforming use. (2) The legal noncomplying grandfathered uses in subsection (1) shall be permitted to remodel, improve, or replace site improvements on the same site, for continual use and occupancy by the same use, provided such remodeling, improvement, or replacement complies with all of the following: (A) shall not result in increased floor area; DocuSign Envelope ID: 5B548FEE-3E44-445F-B13E-9CBE4F8878AD 20190410 ay 0160012 Amending ORD 18.18 (DC) District 2 (B) shall not relocate below grade floor area to above grade portions of the building; (C) shall not result in an increase of the height, length, building envelope, building footprint or any other increase in the size of the improvement. For dimensional shape and size occupied by an existing building. It is not the maximum, buildable potential of the site; (D) shall not increase the degree of noncompliance, except pursuant to the exceptions to floor area ratio regulations set forth in Section 18.18.070; or (E) in the case of medical, professional, general business or administrative office uses of a size exceeding 5,000 square feet in the CDS or CDN district that are deemed legal noncomplying grandfathered pursuant to subsection (1), such remodeling, improvement, or replacement shall not result in increased floor area devoted to such office uses. (F) length, and the building envelope through Architectural Review of minor aesthetic architectural improvements and to improve pedestrianorientation provided there is no increase to the degree of any noncomplying feature. (3) If a legal noncomplying grandfathered use deemed existing pursuant to subsection (1) ceases and thereafter remains discontinued for 12 consecutive months, it shall be considered abandoned and may be replaced only by a conforming use. (4) A use deemed legal noncomplying grandfathered pursuant to subsection (1) which is changed to or replaced by a conforming use shall not be reestablished, and any portion of a site or any portion of a building, the use of which changes from a legal noncomplying grandfathered use to a conforming use, shall not thereafter be used except to accommodate a conforming use. (b) Noncomplying (Grandfathered) Facilities (1) Any noncomplying (grandfathered) facility existing on August 28, 1986 and which, when built, was a complying facility, may remain as a legal noncomplying grandfathered facility and shall not be subject to the provisions of Chapter 18.70. (2) The legal noncomplying grandfathered facilities in subsection (1) shall be permitted to remodel, improve, or replace site improvements on the same site for continual use and occupancy, by the same use, provided such remodeling, improvement, or replacement complies with all of the following: (A) shall not result in increased floor area; (B) shall not relocate below grade floor area to above grade portions of the building; (C) shall not result in an increase of the height, length, building envelope, building footprint, or any other increase in the size of the improvement; (D) shall not increase the degree of noncompliance, except pursuant to the exceptions to floor area ratio regulations set forth in Section 18.18.070; (E) length, and the building envelope through Architectural Review of minor aesthetic architectural improvements and to improve pedestrianorientation provided there is no increase to the degree of any noncomplying feature. DocuSign Envelope ID: 5B548FEE-3E44-445F-B13E-9CBE4F8878AD 20190410 ay 0160012 Amending ORD 18.18 (DC) District 3 (F) The residential portion of any legal noncomplying facility shall not be converted to a nonresidential land use or reduced in gross floor area or number of units. An applicant asserting that the operation of this subsection (F) is preempted by state or federal law shall submit a statement of its position with all claims and all supporting documentary evidence at the time it applies for a change of use. The City Council shall hold at least one noticed public hearing in accordance with the procedures set forth in PAMC 18.77.080 to consider whether to waive or adjust the requirements of one or more provisions of Titles 18 or 21. The City Council may seek additional information including, without limitation, third party peer review paid for at SECTION 3. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by a decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance. The City Council hereby declares that it would have passed this Ordinance and each and every section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase not declared invalid or unconstitutional without regard to whether any portion of the Ordinance would be subsequently declared invalid or unconstitutional. SECTION 4. The Council finds that the Ordinance is within the scope of and in furtherance of the Comprehensive Plan 2030 which was evaluated in that certain Final Environmental Impact Report certified and for which findings were adopted by Council Resolution Nos. 9720 and 9721 on November 13, 2017, all in accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act . Pursuant to Section 15168 of the State CEQA Guidelines, the City has determined that no new effects would occur from and no new mitigation measures would be required for the adoption of this Ordinance. The Council further and alternatively finds, that even if this Ordinance were not within the scope of the Comprehensive Plan 2030, it would be exempt from environmental review under Sections 15061(b)(3) and 15305 of the State CEQA Guidelines. / / / / / / / / / / / / / / DocuSign Envelope ID: 5B548FEE-3E44-445F-B13E-9CBE4F8878AD 20190410 ay 0160012 Amending ORD 18.18 (DC) District 4 SECTION 5. This Ordinance shall be effective on the thirtyfirst date after the date of its adoption. 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