(a) Every part and portion of that territory hereinafter described, which constitutes a part of the area known as Laguna-Dominguez area, and located within the corporate limits of the City of Los Angeles, which is less than fifteen and one-half feet elevation above sea level, United States Geological Survey, is hereby declared to be subject to inundation, and is, therefore, declared to be unfit for human habitation. Said territory is more particularly described as follows:
Beginning at the intersection of the easterly prolongation of the center line of that portion of One Hundred Seventieth Street (in the City of Gardena) extending westerly from Vermont Avenue with the westerly boundary of the City of Los Angeles as said boundary existed January 1, 1942; thence southerly along said westerly boundary of the City of Los Angeles in its various courses to the northeasterly prolongation of the center line of that portion of One Hundred Eighty-second Street tending southwesterly from Vermont Avenue; thence northeasterly along said last-mentioned northeasterly prolongation to the center line of Vermont Avenue; thence southerly along said last-mentioned center line in its various courses to the westerly prolongation of the southerly line of Lot 109, McDonald Tract, as per map recorded in Book 15, pages 21 and 22, Miscellaneous Records of Los Angeles County; thence easterly along said last-mentioned prolongation and said last-mentioned southerly line to a point in the northerly prolongation of the westerly line of Lot 75 of Tract No. 4671, as per map recorded in Book 56, pages 30 and 31 of Maps, Records of said County; thence southerly along said last-mentioned northerly prolongation to the center line of One Hundred Ninetieth Street; thence northeasterly long said last-mentioned center line to the northerly prolongation of the center line of that portion of Hamilton Street extending southerly from One Hundred Ninetieth Street; thence southerly along said last-mentioned northerly prolongation to the southeasterly boundary line of the City of Los Angeles as said boundary existed January 1, 1942; thence northeasterly along said last-mentioned boundary of the City of Los Angeles and continuing along said boundary to the easterly prolongation of the center line of that portion of One Hundred Eighty-ninth Street extending westerly from Figueroa Street; thence westerly along said last-mentioned easterly prolongation and along said center line of One Hundred Eighty-ninth Street to the southerly prolongation of the westerly line of Lot 8, M. E. Woods Gardena Tract, as per map recorded in Book 10, page 172 of Maps, Records of said County; thence northerly along said last-mentioned southerly prolongation and said westerly line of Lot 8 to the northwesterly corner thereof; thence southwesterly along the southeasterly line of Lot 21 of Stimson Bros.’ Resubdivision of Farm Lots 18 and 19 South Gardena Tract, as per map recorded in Book 52, page 98, Miscellaneous Records of said County, to the most southerly corner of said Lot 21; thence northerly along the westerly line of said Lot 21 and the northerly prolongation thereof to the center line of One Hundred Eighty-fourth Street; thence southwesterly along said last-mentioned center line to the southerly prolongation of the westerly line of Lot 27, said Stimson Bros. Resubdivision of Farm Lots 18 and 19, South Gardena tract; thence northerly along said last-mentioned southerly prolongation and said westerly line and the northerly prolongation thereof to the easterly prolongation of the hereinbefore mentioned center line of One Hundred Seventieth Street; thence westerly along said last-mentioned easterly prolongation to the point of beginning.
(b) No building or portion thereof which is designed for residential purposes or as a place of public assembly as hereinafter described, or for both, may be constructed, and no existing building may be altered so as to be used either in whole or in part for such use, upon any part or portion of the premises described in Subdivision (a) hereof, which is less than fifteen and one-half feet elevation above sea level, United States Geological Survey.
(c) A “place of public assembly”, as used in Subdivision (b) hereof means and includes every place designed for or used for the congregation or gathering of twenty (20) or more persons, whether such gathering be of a public, restricted, or private nature. Assembly halls, churches, schools, auditoriums, recreation halls, pavilions, places of amusement, dance halls, opera house, motion picture theatres, and the like, are included within this term.
(d) No permit shall be issued by any officer or employee of the City for the doing of any act for which such permit is required by any provision of Chapter IX of the LAMC when such act, if performed, would constitute a violation of this section. (Amended by Ord. No. 185,587, Eff. 7/16/18.)