HomeMy WebLinkAboutCC ORD 2018-2449 Amend 13.22.060 Improvement Requirements Single Building PermitsORDINANCE NO. 2018 — 2449
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF NATIONAL CITY
AMENDING NATIONAL CITY MUNICIPAL CODE TITLE 13,
SECTION 13.22.060, SUBSECTION "A", PERTAINING TO PUBLIC
IMPROVEMENT REQUIREMENTS FOR SINGLE BUILDING PERMITS
WHEREAS, to encourage property owners to make improvements to real property,
the City Council desires to amend Section 13.22.060, Subsection "A", of the National City
Municipal Code to reduce the time and financial burden to property owners by expanding the
exemptions to the requirements for obtaining building permits for projects under $100,000 (e.g.
garages, patios, swimming pools); and
WHEREAS, amending Section 13.22.060, Subsection "A", will make the City's
permit requirements consistent with other cities in San Diego County, such as the City of San
Diego and Escondido who recently enacted similar changes; and
WHEREAS, pursuant to the terms and provisions of the Government Code of the
State of California, proceedings were duly initiated for the amendment of the National City
Municipal Code.
BE IT ORDAINED by the City Council of the City of National City as follows:
Section I. That the Table of Contents for Chapter 13.22 of the Municipal Code is
amended to read as follows:
Sections:
13.22.010 Definitions.
13.22.020 Standards —Compliance required —Additional authorized when.
13.22.030 Compliance required —City engineer administration authority.
13.22.040 Record keeping, agreements, and bond requirements.
13.22.050 Building permit —Issuance prerequisites.
13.22.060 Work required —Exemptions —Conveyance of property.
13.22.070 Deferrals permitted when —Procedures.
13.22.080 Exemption from compliance granted when.
13.22.090 Appeals —City council authority.
13.22.100 Certificate of occupancy issuance prerequisites.
13.22.110 Defaults.
Section II. Section 13.22.060, Subsection "A", of the National City Municipal Code is
hereby amended to read as follows:
13.22.060 Work required — Exemptions — Conveyance of property.
A. 1. Portland cement concrete curbs, gutters, driveway aprons, pedestrian
curb ramps, sidewalks, and one-half width of local street permanent paving shall be
constructed along all contiguous street frontages, including replacement of all damaged or
broken public improvements, except where such damages have been determined by the city
engineer to have been caused by city -owned street trees. Such work to be done shall not
exceed, in costs, ten percent of the valuation of the building improvement permits as
determined by the building official.
2. Additional exemptions to the requirements of this Chapter, are as
follows:
a. Single -building permits with a valuation, as estimated by the
building official, of one hundred thousand dollars or Tess;
b. Permits for signs only;
c. Permits for new construction and/or tenant improvements that
do not increase occupancy for persons or vehicles;
d. Permits for construction of accessory structures for single-
family dwellings such as garages, swimming pools, decks or patios; and
e. Permits for work required to repair a property after an accident,
natural disaster, or act of God. Repair in this instance is defined as that work necessary to
return the property to its conditions it existed just prior to the accident, natural disaster, or act
of God.
3. In all cases, such building permit valuations shall be the sum of all
such valuations shown on all building permits issued for that property within the immediately
preceding twenty -four -month period, as determined by the building official.
Section III. This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force thirty (30) days from the
date of its passage, and before the expiration of fifteen (15) days after its passage.
Section IV. The City Council declares that the judicial invalidity of any subsection or
portion of this Chapter shall not affect the validity of any other remaining section or portion; that
the City Council would have adopted each of those remaining portions, notwithstanding any later
declared invalidity. If any provision determined invalid under the preceding sentence can either be
judicially severed or interpreted in a way that could harmonize it with the remaining provisions,
then it may be severed or interpreted and applied so as to give full purpose, meaning, and effect
to the remaining provisions of this Chapter.
PASSED and ADOPTED this 24th day of July, 20
ATTE
Michael R. D=IIa, ity Clerk
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Angi
Cittorney
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Ordinance No. 2018 — 2449
July 24, 2018
Page 2 of 2
Morrison, Mayor
Amending NCMC Section 13.22.060,
Subsection "A": Requirements
for Single Building Permits
Passed and adopted by the Council of the City of National City, California, on
July 24, 2018 by the following vote, to -wit:
Ayes: Councilmembers Cano, Mendivil, Morrison.
Nays: Rios, Sotelo-Solis.
Absent: None.
Abstain: None.
• AUTHENTICATED BY: RON MORRISON
Mayor of the City of National City, California
City Clerk of the City of National City, California
I HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing ordinance was not finally adopted until seven
calendar days had elapsed between the day of its introduction and the day of its final
passage, to wit, on July 3, 2018 and on July 24, 2018.
I FURTHER CERTIFY THAT said ordinance was read in full prior to its final passage or
that the reading of said ordinance in full was dispensed with by a vote of not less than a
majority of the members elected to the Council and that there was available for the
consideration of each member of the Council and the public prior to the day of its
passage a written or printed copy of said ordinance.
I FURTHER CERTIFY that the above and foregoing is a full, true and correct copy of
ORDINANCE NO. 2018-2449 of the City Council of the City of National City, passed
and adopted by the Council of said City on July 24, 2018.
By:
City Clerk of the City of National City, California
Deputy