CONDO SETBACK REJECTED COUNCIL ALSO SAYS NO TO NEW HEIGHT LIMITS.Byline: Naush Boghossian Staff Writer GLENDALE - The City Council has rejected new height limits and buffer zones buffer zone n. A neutral area between hostile or belligerent forces that serves to prevent conflict. Noun 1. buffer zone for building apartment or condominium condominium In modern property law, individual ownership of one dwelling unit within a multidwelling building. Unit owners have undivided ownership interest in the land and those portions of the building shared in common. housing next to single-family homes. The proposed ordinance A law, statute, or regulation enacted by a Municipal Corporation. An ordinance is a law passed by a municipal government. A municipality, such as a city, town, village, or borough, is a political subdivision of a state within which a municipal corporation has been , aimed at maintaining the charm of residential neighborhoods, would have required that multifamily complexes next to single-family homes be limited to two stories and be set back 15 feet from the property line to create a softer transition. Calling a 15-foot setback setback In architecture, a steplike recession in the profile of a high-rise building. Usually dictated by building codes to allow sunlight to reach streets and lower floors, the building must take another step back from the street for every specified added height interval. arbitrary and unwarranted, Councilman Bob Yousefian voted against the proposed ordinance that would have affected 100 lots in the city. ``The way this ordinance was written, with requirements and setbacks, it was more pomp POMP n. A drug used in cancer chemotherapy and composed of purinethol (6-mercaptopurine), Oncovin (vincristine sulfate), methotrexate, and prednisone. and circumstance Circumstance or circumstances can refer to:
Changes to zoning standards require four council votes, and the measure failed when Councilman Rafi Manoukian Rafi Manoukian is a former member of the city council in Glendale, California. He was recently notified that he has been selected by the Board of Directors and the Selection Committee of the National Ethnic Coalition of Organizations (NECO) as a recipient of the 2006 Ellis Island abstained. The proposed changes would have allowed city officials to immediately address any incompatible incompatible adj. 1) inconsistent. 2) unmatching. 3) unable to live together as husband and wife due to irreconcilable differences. In no-fault divorce states, if one of the spouses desires to end the marriage, that fact proves incompatibility, and a divorce developments in the works while planners complete a citywide study of multifamily housing. At the study's completion in about two years, planners will make recommendations to the council for citywide zoning changes, said Hassan Haghani, planning administrator. ``We will be looking at this issue again as part of the comprehensive study,'' Haghani said. ``The purpose of this (proposed ordinance) was to at least give some sort of protection from this time until the study got completed.'' Homeowners, especially from the affluent Rossmoyne neighborhood and sections of Montrose and north Glendale, had been complaining to the city that some of the proposed new developments were too large and incompatible with surrounding buildings. Currently, there are minimum required setbacks of eight feet for the first floor, 11 feet for the second and 14 feet for the third floor, creating a step effect, and three-story buildings are allowed on lots wider than 90 feet. Since the proposed ordinance failed, those zoning standards continue to apply to apartments and condominium homes adjacent to single-family houses. Naush Boghossian, (818) 546-3306 naush.boghossian(at)dailynews.com |
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