Chapter 28.96 — ZONING UPON ANNEXATION

A. In any petition for the annexation of property to the City, the petitioner may request the zoning desired by him or her for the property described in the application in the event the property is annexed to the City. Prior to the adoption by the Council of the resolution of intention to annex uninhabited territory, or in the case of an inhabited proceeding at the time of referral to the Planning Commission pursuant to Section 35108 of the Government Code, a copy of the annexation petition or request shall be referred to the City Planning Commission for investigation and report to the City Council as to the desirability of the annexation and the zoning classification to be placed thereon whether or not a zone classification has been requested. The Planning Commission shall consider the annexation of such property and the zoning to be placed thereon in the event of annexation to the City and upon completion of such consideration, the Planning Commission shall make its report and recommendations to the Council by resolution.

B. After receiving such report and recommendation, the City Council shall consider the zoning classification to be applied upon annexation to property to be annexed. The City Council may include any such zone consideration within any notice of hearing concerning the annexation of the property involved, and the hearing on the matter of zoning may be held in conjunction with any public hearing required by law to be held by the City Council in connection with the annexation proceedings.

C. Concurrent with or prior to final annexation of the territory, the City Council shall, by ordinance, classify the property for zoning purposes in accordance with its determination, and upon the effective date of such classification ordinance, or the annexation ordinance, whichever is the later, the zone classification shall be effective and a part of the General Plan of the City.

D. The Council may as an alternative to any of the foregoing proceedings for the zoning of annexed territory:

1. Allow the same to be finally annexed without zoning the land therein, and may initiate zoning thereof under other provisions of this title after annexation; or

2. The Council may provide by ordinance effective prior to completion of annexation proceedings upon recommendation of the Planning Commission that the territory to be annexed shall as a condition of annexation remain classified the same as it was classified or zoned as unincorporated territory where as such territory it was classified as to land use by the County of Santa Barbara pursuant to a general plan of zoning.

(Ord. 2592, 1957; Ord. 3710, 1974)