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AN ORDINANCE AMENDING ORDINANCE NS-3, T[~
ZONING ORDINANCE OF ~|E CITY OF SAPJkTOGA~
BY AMENDING SECTION 3.7 RELATING TO ACCESSORY
STRUCTURES IN REAR YARDS, AMENDING SECTION 10.5
RELATING TO SIGNS IN COFtMERCIAL DISTRICTS, AND
ADDING SECTION 13.3-1 TO ARTICLE 13 RELATING
TO STANDARDS ON DESIGN REVIEW FOR RESIDENTIAL
DISTRICTS.
The City CounCil of the City of Saratoga does hereby ordain
as follows:
Section 1: Section 13.3=1 is hereby added to Article 13 of
Ordinance NS-3 of the City of Saratoga, which
section shall read as follows:
Section ]3.3=1: DESIGN STANDARDS FOR RESIDENTIAL DISTRICTS.
The following standards are hereby adopted as design standards for
subdivision development of lands in any residential zoning
district in the City of Saratoga, which development or dis-
trict is otherwise required to obtain design review under
the terms of this article or under the terms of any other
articles or provisions of this ordinance. These standards
shall be construed as minimum stand~rds~ and are adopted to
achieve the purposes heretnabove set ~orth in Section 13.1
of this article:
a. CURVED DRIVEWAYS AND ~ARAGE FACINGS
i, A minimum o~ 25% of the.driVewayS shall be
Curved with garages facing to the sfde~
2. All driveways directly opposite the end of a l
street shall be curved and the garage opening
shall face the side. ~'~,
b. ROOFS
1. No more than 10% of the homes shall h~ve flat
roofS.
2. All roofing materials shall be wood shingles,
wood shakes, or other materials such as tile
and composition as approved by the City Plan-
ning Commission.
3.Colors of roofing materials shall blend with
the natural landscape and be non-reflective.
c. SETBACKS
1.On a straight street every other home shall have
a varied staggered front setback.
2.If fencing ironring the street between houses is
part of the subdivisions it shall be staggered.
d. ELEVATIONS
Identical basic straet elevations shall not be located
opposite or adjacent to each other and no closer than
one lot removed from the opposite lot.
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e. MATERIALS AND COLORS
A schedule of materials and colors shall be required
for general approval~
f. MODIFICATIONS
With the specific approval of the Planning Commission,
modifications of the above design standards or alter-
native standards maybe applied, if such modifications
or alternatives are ~ubstanttally equivalent in effect
to the above standards and equally or better adapted
to achieve the purposes stated in Section 13.1.
Section 2: The second to the last paragraph of Section 3.7
of Article 3 of Ordinance NS-3, which article
relates to R-1 one-family residential districts, is hereby
amended to read as follows:
AcceSsory structures not attached in any way to the main
structure, and not exceeding 14 feet'in height, may be
located in the required rear yard provided that no more
than 500 square feet or 10% of the area of the required
rear ~ard, whichever is the greater, shall be covered by
such StruCtures, and provided further thaton a reversed
corner lot no suck detached acceSsory structure shall be
located closer to th~ rear property line. than the required
side yard on the hdjoihing key 10t. Accessory structures
where attached to the main struCeur~ by ~ common wail,
a breezeway, or .any Wall or roof of!any nature, ma~ not
he located in t~e required rea~ yard.
Sec.tio~ 3: There is hereby added to Section 10.5 of Article 10
of Ordinance NS-3, which article relates to signs,
the following subsection (e), to read as follows:
(e) Wherever the rear of the structure housing the
mercial use in question opens onto a public parking
lot, or a private parking lot for the use of the
customers of the structure in question, then an
additional identification sign or signs pertaining
to the use conducted in the structure in question
shall be permitted, facing such rear parking area,
the aggregate area of such sign or signs in total not
to exceed 50% of the square footage of sign area other-
wise permitted under the provisions of Subsection (a)
above set forth.
Section 4: If any section, subsection, sentences clauses
phrase or portion of this ordinance is for any
reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision
of any court of competent jurisdiction, snch decision shall
not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this
ordinance. The City Council of the City of Saratoga hereby
declares that it would have passed this ordinance and each
section~ subsection, sentence, clause and phrase thereof,
respective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections,
sentences, clauses er phrases be held invalid or unconstitutional.
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Section 5: This ordinance shall be. operative and take effect
on and after thirty (30) days from the date of
its passage.
The above and foregoing ordinances after public hearing held
thereon by the Planning Commission of the City of Saratogas was thereafter
introduceds and public hearing held thereon by the City Council of the City
of Saratogas and was thereafter passed and adopted this 2nd day
of December ~ 1964s by the foliowing vote:
AYES: Councilmen Glennon, Hartman, Drakes Tyler, Burry
NOES: None
AB SENT: None
kYOR
ATTEST:
The abave and foreg in iS a
copy of OI'dinance g, do~ true and correct
which has been
published accol'~Jing to law,
Deputy City Clerk Date