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ORDINANCE NO. 426
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH,
CALIFORNIA, ESTABLISHING A RESI-
DENCE DISTRICT THEREIN.
The City Council of the City of Huntington
Beach, California, do ordain as follows:
Section 1: That all that portion of the City
of Huntington Beach included within the following des-
cribed boundaries is hereby established and declared
to be a residence district :
Beginning at the point of the intersection
of the center line of Lake Avenue with the intersection
of the center line of Palm Avenue; thence northerly along
the center line of Lake Avenue to its intersection with
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the center line of Twelfth Street ; thence westerly along
the center line of Twelfth Street to its intersection
with the center line of Main Street; thence northerly
{ 4 g the center line of Main Street to its intersection
with the center line of Thirteenth Street ; thence westerly
along the center line of Thirteenth Street to its inter-
section with the center line of the first alley westerly
from Main Street; thence northerly along the center line
of said alley to its intersection with the center line
of Fourteenth Street ; thence westerly along the center
F_ line of said Fourteenth Street to its intersection with
1 I the center line of Palm Avenue; thence southerly along
the center line of Palm Avenue to the point of beginning.
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Section 2: Any lot , premises or building in
the residence district may be used and occupied for the
following purposes: Residential dwellings , parks,
playgrounds, public buildings and accessories to said
uses, including garages and space necessary for the
occupants of said buildings.
Section 3: (a) Every building or improvement
which lawfully exists on any lot or premises at the time
this ordinance became effective on said lot or premises,
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any portion of which does not comply with the regulations
specified in this ordinance, shall be deemed and construed
to be a non-conforming building or improvement.
(b) A use lawfully existing in any build-
ing upon any lot or premises at the time this ordinance
Z became effective on said lot or premises , and which does
not comply with the regulations of this ordinance shall
be deemed and construed to be a non-conforming use. Any
such non-conforming use may be continued.
(c) The use of a non-conforming building
shall not be changed except to a use which in the
opinion of the City Council, as evidenced by resolution,
is similar in nature, operations and degree of compat-
ability to surrounding property$ to the use which occu-
pied the building 'at the time ,it became non-conforming
or the use fbr which the building was intended as pro-
vided in this ordinance. The use of a non-conforming
— building may be changed to a conforming use.
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(d) Repairs or alterations which do not
enlarge or increase the size of a non-conforming building
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may be made to any such non-conforming building, provided
that the aggregate value of separate repairs or altera-
tions shall not exceed fifty (50%) percent of the assessed
value as of the date such building first became a non-
conforming building by the effect of this ordinance;
provided no repairs , alterations or additions shall be
made to any non-conforming building vbich has been damaged
by fire , flood, wind, earthquake or other calamity to the
extent of more than fifty ( 50%) percent of its value at
the time of such damage, unless every portion of such
building is made to conform with all provisions of this
ordinance for new buildings.
(e) No non-conforming building or improvement
shall be added or enlarged in any manner unless such
building or improvement and such additions or enlarge-
ments conform in every respect with the provisions set
forth in this ordinance.
(f) A non-conforming use or portion thereof
occupying any lot or premises and not housed in a
building occupying a conforming building or portion
thereof shall not be enlarged or extended onto land or
into any other portion of the conforming building not
actually so occupied at the time such use became non-
{ conforming nor shall such use be changed except to a
conforming use. If such a non-conforming use or portion
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thereof is abandoned or discontinued or changed to a
conforming use , it shall not thereafter be re-established
or reopened.
(g) For the purposes of this ordinance a non-
conforming use shall be deemed to be discontinued or
abandoned when any such use has ceased to operate or
has not been operated, or the lot or premises has ceased
to be used, or has not been used, for such non-conforming
purpose, for a period of sixty (60) days.
Section 4: The City Clerk shall certify' to the
passage and adoption of this ordinance and shall cause
the same to be published by one insertion in the Huntington
Beach Mews, a weekly newspaper, printed, published and
circulated in the City of Huntington Beach, and thirty (30)
days after the adoption hereof the same shall take effect
and be in force.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the
City of Huntington Beach, California, at a regular_.;
meeting thereof held on the 1st day of
. -May ..) 1939.
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ATTEST:
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City Clerk.
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA, )
County of Orange, ) ss:
City of Huntington Beach. )
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I , C . R. FURR, City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk
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of the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach,
California, do hereby certify that the foregoing
ordinance was presented and read to the City Council
at a regularly adjourned meeting the re of held on the
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24th day of April, 1939, and was again read to said
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City Council at a regular meeting thereof
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held on the 1st day of ay , 1939 , and was
passed and adopted by the following vote:
�- AYES: Councilmen: MarP_hansp-0hamness,Talbert,Henri aksgn
McCallen
NOES: Councilmen: None
ABSENT: Councilmen: None
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City Clerk and ex-of ficio Clerk of
the City Council of the City of
Huntington Beach , California.
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