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CITY COUNCIL MEETING
JULY 16, 2024
H.12 ADOPT BY TITLE ONLY ORDINANCE NO. 3272-
24, AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF REDONDO BEACH, CALIFORNIA,
REPEALING SECTIONS 2-9.201 THROUGH 2-
9.303, AND SECTIONS 2-9.1101 THROUGH 2-
9.1203 OF THE REDONDO BEACH MUNICIPAL
CODE REGARDING THE HISTORICAL,
PRESERVATION, LIBRARY, AND RECREATION
AND PARKS COMMISSIONS, AND ADDING
SECTIONS 2-9.1501 THROUGH 2-9.1503
REGARDING THE CONSOLIDATED PUBLIC
AMENITIES COMMISSION. FOR SECOND
READING AND ADOPTION
Section 5 of the attached Ordinance has been updated to reflect an effective date of October 1, 2024. The Ordinance will be brought back to Council for an additional reading on July 23, 2024.
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ORDINANCE NO. 3272-24
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF REDONDO BEACH, CALIFORNIA, REPEALING SECTIONS 2-9.201 THROUGH 2-9.303, AND SECTIONS 2-9.1101 THROUGH 2-9.1203 OF THE REDONDO BEACH MUNICIPAL CODE
REGARDING THE HISTORICAL, PRESERVATION, LIBRARY, AND RECREATION AND PARKS COMMISSIONS, AND ADDING SECTIONS 2-9.1501 THROUGH 2-
9.1503 REGARDING THE CONSOLIDATED PUBLIC AMENITIES COMMISSION WHEREAS, during its regular meeting on May 7, 2024, the City Council discussed and approved consolidating the Historical, Preservation, Library, and Recreation and Parks Commissions into one “Public Amenities Commission”; and, WHEREAS, a majority of the City Council voted to direct staff to prepare an amendments and new language to reflect such action.
NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF REDONDO BEACH, CALIFORNIA, DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. REPEAL OF CODE SECTIONS. Sections 2-9.201 through 2-9.303 and Sections 2-9.1101 through 2-9.1203 of the Redondo Beach Municipal Code are hereby repealed.
SECTION 2. ADDITION OF CODE SECTIONS. Sections 2-9.1501 through 2-9.1503 of the Redondo Beach Municipal Code are hereby added and shall read as follows:
Ҥ 2-9.1501 Public Amenities Commission.
There is hereby created a Public Amenities Commission.
§ 2-9.1502 Membership and Terms.
(a) Membership. The Commission shall consist of seven members. Unless otherwise authorized by the City Council, one member shall be appointed from each Council district and two members shall be appointed at large.
1) The Mayor, to the extent practicable, shall make reasonable efforts to reassign current commissioners from the former Historical, Library, Preservation, and Recreation & Parks Commissions with existing terms to a suitable Commission.
2) To the extent practicable, three members shall be appointed from among professionals in the disciplines of architecture, history, architectural history, urban planning, archeology, or other historic preservation or related disciplines, such as American Studies, American Civilization, cultural ORDINANCE NO. 3272-24
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geography, or anthropology. All members of the Public Amenities Commission shall have a demonstrated interest, competence, experience, or knowledge in historic preservation, art and literature, and the cultural heritage of the City.
(b) Terms. The members of the Public Amenities Commission shall serve for terms commencing October 1 and ending September 30 or as soon thereafter as his or her successor is appointed. The term lengths shall be staggered as follows: 3 members’ terms shall end 2 years from the date of appointment; 4 members’ terms shall end 4 years from the date of appointment. The duration of each member’s term shall be within the Mayor and City Council’s discretion. (c) The members of the Commission shall be appointed by the Mayor, subject to confirmation by the City Council, within 60 days after the expiration of the four-year term or within 60 days after a vacancy occurs. If the Mayor shall have failed to make an appointment within such period, any member of the Council may nominate an eligible person to fill such vacancy. Four affirmative votes of the Council to appoint such nominated person shall result in the appointment. Any appointment to fill an unexpired term shall be for such unexpired period. (d) No person shall serve more than two full terms on the Commission, and no person shall serve simultaneously on more than one board or commission. § 2-9.1503 Powers and Duties.
The Public Amenities Commission shall have the following powers and duties:
(a) Historical resource and amenities powers and duties:
1) Investigate, maintain, and catalog all historical information, documents, records and pictures that would be of general interest to the City and its citizens;
2) Compile records and recordings;
3) Promote the keeping of a written historical record of the City in narrative form;
4) Perform volunteer services at the Redondo Beach Historical Museum; 5) Participate in, promote, and conduct public information, educational, interpretive programs pertaining to historic resources; ORDINANCE NO. 3272-24
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(b) Preservation Program and ordinance duties:
1) Study, review, conduct public hearings, and make decisions regarding proposed designations and removal of designations of landmarks and historic districts;
2) Maintain a register of landmarks and historic districts within the City; 3) Determine an appropriate system of markers for landmarks and historic districts;
4) Adopt application and submittal requirements for Certificates of Appropriateness to alter, restore, demolish, remove, or relocate any landmark or any improvement located within a historic district and adopt prescriptive standards to be used by the Commission in reviewing such applications;
5) Review and render decisions regarding all alteration, restoration, demolition, removal, and relocation proposals related to landmarks and properties within historic districts in conjunction with applications for Certificates of Appropriateness pursuant to Chapter 4 of Title 10 of this Code;
6) Conduct, or cause to be conducted, a comprehensive survey of those properties within the boundaries of the City which have not been surveyed at the time the Commission is established;
7) Prepare, or cause to be prepared, various preservation-related documents intended to assist the owners of historic resources and the Commission in their review of applications. These may include a general information booklet describing historic styles, a rehabilitation manual or design guidelines;
8) Develop, or cause to be developed, and recommend to the City Council a program of incentives for preservation of historic resources; 9) Investigate and report to the City Council on the use of various Federal, State, local or private funding resources and mechanisms available to promote historic resource preservation within the City; 10)Review and comment upon proposed modifications in regulation regarding land use, housing and redevelopment, municipal improvement, and other types of planning and programs undertaken by any agency of the City, the County or State, which directly affect landmarks and historic districts; ORDINANCE NO. 3272-24
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11)Retain consultants and conduct studies, as the Commission deems desirable or necessary subject to prior approval of expenditures of City funds by the City Council;
12)Cooperate with other local, County, State and Federal Government in the pursuit of the objectives of historic preservation;
13)Render advice and guidance, upon the request of the property owner or occupant, on the alteration, restoration, landscaping or maintenance of any historic resource within the City;
(c) Recreation and Parks duties:
1) Act as adviser to the City Council in all matters pertaining to public recreation, including playgrounds and entertainment;
2) With the assistance of the Community Services Director, prepare an annual estimate or budget purposes for the funds necessary to carry on an adequate recreational program in the City and submit such estimate to the City Manager;
3) Assist in every way with the development of recreation in the City, stimulate public interest in such recreation program and cooperate with schools located in the City and all other agencies relative to securing and developing a full and complete recreational program;
(d) Library duties:
1) Plan a program for the development, extension, maintenance, and improvement of library facilities and park facilities in the City. (e) Any other duties or responsibilities as directed by City Council.
SECTION 3. INCONSISTENT PROVISIONS. Any provisions of the Redondo Beach Municipal Code, or appendices thereto, or any other ordinances of the City inconsistent herewith, to the extent of such inconsistencies and no further, are hereby repealed.
SECTION 4. SEVERABILITY. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, or phrase of this Ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of the Ordinance. The City Council 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 more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, or phrases be declared invalid or unconstitutional.
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SECTION 5. PUBLICATION AND EFFECTIVE DATE. This Ordinance shall be published in the official newspaper of said City, and the same shall go into effect and be in full force and operation on October 1, 2024.
PASSED, APPROVED, AND ADOPTED this 23rd day of July, 2024. _______________________________
James A. Light, Mayor
APPROVED AS TO FORM: ATTEST:
_______________________________ ________________________________ Michael W. Webb, City Attorney Eleanor Manzano, CMC, City Clerk ORDINANCE NO. 3272-24
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss
CITY OF REDONDO BEACH )
I, Eleanor Manzano, City Clerk of the City of Redondo Beach, California, do hereby certify that Ordinance No. 3272-24 was introduced at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the 16th day of July, 2024 and approved and adopted by the City Council of the City of Redondo Beach, California, at a regular meeting of said City Council held on the 23rd day of July 2024, and there after signed and approved by the Mayor and attested by the City Clerk, and that said ordinance was adopted by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAIN:
_________________________
Eleanor Manzano, CMC
City Clerk