Los Altos Hills Municipal Code Ch. 2 Official Plan Lines

Note: Prior code history: Res. No. 535: Ords. 65, 209 and 299.

Except as otherwise provided in this chapter, no building, structure, or other improvement shall be erected or placed within any Official Plan Line established by ordinance. The provisions of this section shall not apply to lawns, crops, plantings, shrubbery, and the like, nor to such ordinary front yard fences and nonpermanent structures which will not, in the opinion of the Board of Planning Administration, defeat the purposes of this chapter.

(§ 3, Ord. 209, eff. May 18, 1973)

(a) Authorized—Criteria. The Board of Planning Administration shall have the power to grant exceptions to the strict application of the provisions of this chapter in cases where, due to special conditions or exceptional characteristics of the property involved or its location or surroundings, a literal enforcement of the provisions of this chapter would result in practical difficulties or unnecessary hardships; provided, however, no such exceptions shall be granted unless the Board of Planning Administration shall find that the granting of such exception will not be contrary to the intent of the provisions of this chapter nor to the public interest, safety, health, and welfare.

(b) Applications. Applications for such exceptions shall be made to the Board of Planning Administration and shall include a scale drawing of the building, structure, or other improvement to be erected, together with such information as may be required.

(c) Fees. A nonrefundable filing fee of $52 and a deposit for services of $200 shall accompany each such application.

(d) Hearings—Notices. Upon the receipt of such an application, the Board of Planning Administration shall hold one public hearing thereon, notice of which shall be given by publication once in a newspaper of general circulation within the Town not less than 10 days prior to the date of the hearing.

(e) Board of Planning Administration decisions and recommendations. The Board of Planning Administration shall make its decision upon the application within 15 days after the public hearing. The Board of Planning Administration shall grant the exception applied for subject to such conditions as the Board of Planfling Administration may deem necessary for the accomplishment of the purposes of this chapter and of the objectives of the General Plan or shall deny the application for the exception. The Board of Planning Administration shall report its action to the Council setting forth all conditions placed on any such exception.

(f) Council Decisions. Upon the receipt of such report, the Council may agenda the matter for review. If the action of the Board of Planning Administration is appealed, the Council shall agenda the matter for a hearing. The action of the Council shall be final.

(§ 3, Ord. 209, eff. May 18, 1973)

There is hereby adopted that certain Official Plan Lines Map of the Town, a copy of which is adopted by reference and specifically made a part of this chapter as though set forth in full in this chapter, and which is more particularly described as the Official Plan Lines Map, Lupine Road between Page Mill Road and Marian Avenue, dated November, 1959. Said map is on file in the office of the City Clerk.

(§ 3, Ord. 209, eff. May 18, 1973)