ORDINANCE NO. 1806
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SAN CLEMENTE amending section 28 OF THE CODIFICATION OF THE TRAFFIC REGULATIONS OF SAN CLEMENTE, CALIFORNIA TO REPEAL AND REPLACE CERTAIN TIME LIMITATIONS FOR PARKING ON PORTIONS OF AVENIDA DEL MAR, NORTH & SOUTH EL CAMINO REAL, NORTH & SOUTH OLA VISTA, AND THE CITY OWNED PARKING LOT AT THE SAN CLEMENTE LIBRARY/COMMUNITY CENTER, AND FINDING THE ACTION EXEMPT FROM THE CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY ACT (CEQA) UNDER CLASS 1 (EXISTING FACILITIES, 14 CCR SECTION 15301) OF THE STATE CEQA GUIDELINES.
WHEREAS, Section 28 of the Codification of the Traffic Regulations of San Clemente, California (“Traffic Code”) currently provides regulations for parking in specific locations within the City; and WHEREAS, the City Council seeks to clarify and standardize the parking time limitations on portions of Avenida Del Mar, North and South El Camino Real, North and South Ola Vista, and the City-owned parking lot located at the San Clemente Library/ Community Center; and WHEREAS, this ordinance is necessary to support local businesses during the upcoming peak economic season, improve access to coastal resources, implement meaningful parking enforcement.
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of San Clemente does ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. The recitals above are true and correct and each incorporated fully herein by reference and adopted as findings by the City Council.
SECTION 2. All parking time limitations on Avenida Del Mar (between El Camino Real and Calle Seville), North and South El Camino Real (between Avenida Victoria and El Portal), North and South Ola Vista (between Avenida Cabrillo and Avenida Victoria), and the parking lot owned by the City of San Clemente located at the San Clemente Library/ Community Center, with the exception of existing 20-minute parking zones, are hereby repealed.
SECTION 3. Parking time limitations on Avenida Del Mar (between El Camino Real and Calle Seville), North and South El Camino Real (between Avenida Victoria and El Portal), North and South Ola Vista (between Avenida Cabrillo and Avenida Victoria), and the parking lot owned by the City of San Clemente located at the San Clemente Library/ Community Center, with the exception of existing 20-minute parking zones, are hereby added to Section 28 of the City’s Traffic Code with a three (3) hour parking time limit as further described in Section 6 below.
SECTION 4. All existing 20-minute parking time limits in Section 28 of the City’s Traffic Code shall remain as currently identified and regulated without change.
SECTION 5. Based upon its review of the entire record, including the Staff Report, any public comments or testimony presented to the City Council, and the facts outlined below, the City Council hereby finds and determines that this Ordinance is categorically exempt from the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) under Class 1 (Existing Facilities, 14 CCR section 15301) of the State CEQA Guidelines.
The Class 1 exemption specifically exempts from further CEQA review the operation, repair, maintenance, and minor repair of existing public or private structures, involving negligible or no expansion of use beyond that existing at the time of the lead agency’s determination. This Ordinance involves maintaining an existing use with clarification in hours of operation and thus qualifies for the Class 1 exemption.
Furthermore, it is the finding of the City Council that this Ordinance will not impact an environmental resource of hazardous or critical concern, will not result in a cumulative impact from successive projects of the same type and there are no unusual circumstances surrounding the project that result in a reasonably possibility of a significant effect on the environment. The project will not damage scenic resources, including trees, rock outcroppings, or similar resources. The project does not include any hazardous waste sites, and the project will not cause a substantial adverse change in the significance of a historical resource.
SECTION 6. Subsection 28.d.2j is hereby added to Section 28 of the San Clemente Traffic Code to read as follows:
With the exception of previously identified parking stalls or parking stalls identified in the future by the City Council to be 20 minute parking zones (as indicated by signage and green curb painting), all public on-street parking on Avenida Del Mar (between El Camino Real and Calle Seville), North and South El Camino Real (between Avenida Victoria and El Portal), North and South Ola Vista between Avenida Victoria and Avenida Cabrillo), and within parking lot owned by the City of San Clemente located at the San Clemente Library/ Community Center shall be limited to three (3) hours.
SECTION 7. This ordinance takes effect 30 days after its final adoption.
SECTION 8. If any provision of this Ordinance or its application to any person or circumstance is held to be invalid, such invalidity has no effect on the other provisions or applications of the Ordinance that can be given effect without the invalid provision or application, and to this extent, the provisions of this Ordinance are severable. The City Council declares that it would have adopted this Ordinance irrespective of the invalidity of any portion thereof.
SECTION 9. The City Council hereby directs staff to prepare, execute, and file with the Orange County Clerk a notice of exemption within five working days of the adoption of this Ordinance.
SECTION 10. The custodian of records for this Ordinance is the San Clemente City Clerk, and the records compromising the administrative record for this Ordinance are located at 910 Calle Negocio, San Clemente, CA 92673.
First read and introduced at the regular meeting of the City Council on April 21, 2026.
APPROVED AND ADOPTED this ______ day of _______, 2026.
ATTEST:
_______________________________ __________________________ Laura Campagnolo, City Clerk Rick Loeffler, Mayor of the City of the City of San Clemente of San Clemente
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss.
CITY OF SAN CLEMENTE )
I, LAURA CAMPAGNOLO, City Clerk of the City of San Clemente, California, hereby certify that Ordinance No. 1806 having been regularly introduced at the meeting of _______________________, was again introduced, the reading in full thereof unanimously waived, and duly passed and adopted at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the _____day of _____________, _______, and said ordinance was adopted by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the official seal of the City of San Clemente, California, this _____ day of ______________________, 2026. __________________________
Laura Campagnolo, City Clerk
of the City of San Clemente
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
_____________________________
Elizabeth A. Mitchell, City Attorney
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