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HomeMy WebLinkAboutNS-60.9 ORDINANCE NS-60.9 AN ORDINANCE A~NDING THE SUBDIVISION ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SARATOGA'TO PErmIT EXTENSIONS OF TIME ON APPROVAL OF TENTATIVE SUBDIVISION MAPS UP TO TWO YEARS The City .Council of the City of Saratoga does hereby ordain as follows: Section 1: This ordinance is enacted under the enabling provisions of Government Code Section 66452.6 of the State of California, to grant authority to the legislative body of the Advisory Agency, as the case may be, to extend previously appr0ved tentative subdivision maps for a period or periods up to two years, rather than the one-year limitation as presently existing in the Subdivision Ordinance. Section 2: The phrase "not exceeding one year" as contained in Section 18.2 of Ordinance NS-60 is hereby amended to read "not exceeding two years in total", and the phrase "which extensions in no case~may be for any period exceeding one.year" contained in the second paragraph of Section 22.2 of Ordinance NS-60, is hereby amended to read "which extensions in no case may be for any period exceeding two years". Section 3: There is hereby added to Section 18.2 and to Section 22.2 of said Ordinance NS-60, the following additional. paragraph relating to extensions of time: The granting of any extension of time as above set forth, up to the maximum period of time specified herein, shall be at the discretion of the Advisory Agency, or the City Council on appeal, which Advisory Agency and/or City Council shall review and change and modify conditions of approval previously imposed and may impose new and different conditions which are consistent with current City standards as conditions to approval of any extension or extensions. In the event~ however, that the land which is the subject matter of the tentative map has, prior to the request for extension, been rezoned so that the lot size of the tentative map would now be inconsistent with the new zoning, then and in that event, no such extension may be granted. The provisions in this paragraph for extensions for an additional period or periods of not exceeding a total of two (2) years may be applied retroactively to any tentative map previously appr'oved or conditionally approved, provided a request for such an extension has been made prior to the adoption of Ordinance NS-60.9~ or within thirty (30) days after such adoption, and provided further that no such retroacti~e application of this section shall cause any approval. or conditiqnal approval of a tentative map to in any event"cohtinue longer than the maximum allowed by this section. Section 4: If any section, subsection,".sentence, clause or phrase of this ordinance is for any reason held by a court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such 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, irrespective of the fact that any one or moreD sections, subsections, sentences, clauses or phrases-be held invalid or unconstitutional. ~=~ ~ Section 5: This ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and effect ~hirty (30) days after its passage and adoption. This ordinance was regularly introduced and after the waiting time required by law was thereafter passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the'20th day of F~bruary , 1980, by the following ~ote: AYES: Councilmen Kraus, Corr and Callon NOES: None ABSENT: Councilman Matteoni ABSTAIN: ATTEST: The above and foreg in is ~ true and correct copy of OrdinanCe ~ ~, which has been published according to law. The abq,,, and foregoing IS a true and correct