(Title Amended by Ord. No. 138,800, Eff. 6/13/69, Oper. 6/23/69.)
Section
12.00 Title.
12.01 Continuation of Existing Regulations.
12.02 Purpose.
12.03 Definitions.
12.04 Zones – Districts – Symbols.
12.04.01 Violations of Specific Plans.
12.04.05 “OS” Open Space Zone.
12.04.09 “PF” Public Facilities Zone.
12.05 “A1” Agriculture Zone.
12.06 “A2” Agricultural Zone.
12.07 “RA” Suburban Zone.
12.07.01 “RE” Residential Estate Zone.
12.07.1 “RS” Suburban Zone.
12.08 “R1” One-family Zone.
12.08.1 RU Residential Urban Zone.
12.08.3 RZ Residential Zero Side Yard Zone.
12.08.5 “RW1” Residential Waterways Zone.
12.09 “R2” Two-Family Zone.
12.09.1 “RD” Restricted Density Multiple Dwelling Zone.
12.09.3 “RMP” Mobilehome Park Zone.
12.09.5 “RW2” Residential Waterways Zone.
12.10 “R3” Multiple Dwelling Zone.
12.10.5 RAS3 Residential/Accessory Services Zone Purpose Statement.
12.11 “R4” Multiple Dwelling Zone.
12.11.5 RAS4 Residential/Accessory Services Zone Purpose Statement.
12.12 “R5” Multiple Dwelling Zone.
12.12.1 “P” Automobile Parking Zone.
12.12.1.5 “PB” Parking Building Zone.
12.12.2 “CR” Limited Commercial Zone.
12.13 “C1” Limited Commercial Zone.
12.13.5 “C1.5” Limited Commercial Zone
12.14 “C2” Commercial Zone.
12.16 “C4” Commercial Zone.
12.16.1 “CW” Central City West Specific Plan Zone.
12.16.2 ADP Alameda District Specific Plan Zone.
12.16.3 LASED Los Angeles Sports and Entertainment District Specific Plan Zone.
12.16.4 CEC Convention and Event Center Specific Plan Zone.
12.16.5 USC-1A University of Southern California University Park Campus Specific Plan Subarea 1A Zone.
12.16.6 USC-1B University of Southern California University Park Campus Specific Plan Subarea 1B Zone.
12.16.7 USC-2 University of Southern California University Park Campus Specific Plan Subarea 2 Zone.
12.16.8 USC-3 University of Southern California University Park Campus Specific Plan Subarea 3 Zone.
12.16.9 PVSP Ponte Vista at San Pedro Specific Plan Zone.
12.16.10 DNSP District NoHo Specific Plan Zone.
12.17 “C5” Commercial Zone.
12.17.1 “CM” Commercial Manufacturing Zone.
12.17.2 “CM(GM)” Commercial Manufacturing (Glencoe/Maxella) Specific Plan Zone.
12.17.5 “MR1” Restricted Industrial Zone.
12.17.5.5 “CCS” Century City South Specific Plan Studio Zone.
12.17.6 “M1” Limited Industrial Zone.
12.18 “MR2” Restricted Light Industrial Zone.
12.18.1 “WC” Warner Center Specific Plan Zone.
12.19 “M2” Light Industrial Zone.
12.19.1 LAX Los Angeles International Airport Zone.
12.20 “M3” Heavy Industrial Zone.
12.20.1 SL Ocean – Submerged Land Zone.
12.20.2 Coastal Development Permits (Prior to Certification of the Local Coastal Program.)
12.20.2.1 Coastal Development Permit Procedures After Certification of the Local Coastal Program.
12.20.3 “HP” Historic Preservation Overlay Zone.
12.21 General Provisions.
12.21.1 Height of Building or Structures.
12.21.2 Height of Buildings or Structures in Century City.
12.21.3 Height of Buildings or Structures in Community Redevelopment Plan Areas.
12.21.4 Height of Buildings or Structures in Enterprise Zones.
12.21.5 Height of Buildings or Structures in Centers Study Areas.
12.21.6 Height of Buildings or Structures in All R1V, R1F, and R1R One-Family Zone Variations.
12.22 Exceptions.
12.22.1 City of Los Angeles Safer Filming Ordinance.
12.23 Nonconforming Building and Uses.
12.24 Conditional Use Permits and Other Similar Quasi-Judicial Approvals.
12.24.1 Land Use Determination by City Planning Commission.
12.25 Time Limitations.
12.26 Department of Building and Safety.
12.27 Variances.
12.27.1 Administrative Nuisance Abatement Proceedings.
12.28 Adjustments and Slight Modifications.
12.29 Violation of Conditions – Penalty.
12.30 Boundaries of Zones.
12.31 Interpretation – Purpose – Conflict.
12.32 Land Use Legislative Actions.
12.33 Park Fees and Land Dedication.
12.34 Application of Provisions.
12.35 Zoning of Annexed or Unzoned Areas.
12.36 Projects Requiring Multiple Approvals. (Charter § 564).
12.37 Highway and Collector Street Dedication and Improvement.
12.38 Dedication of Streets by Long Term Leases.
12.40 Landscape – General Requirements.
12.41 Landscape – Water Management.
12.42 Landscape.
12.43 Source Reduction of Waste.
12.50 Airport Approach Zoning Regulations.
12.70 Adult Entertainment Zoning.
12.80 Homeless Shelters – Emergencies – City Owned and Leased Property.
12.81 Homeless Shelters – Emergencies – Charitable Organizations.
12.82 Homeless Shelters – Emergencies – El Niño 2016.
This article shall be known as the “Comprehensive Zoning Plan of the City of Los Angeles.”
It is well settled that a municipality may divide land into districts and prescribe regulations governing the uses permitted therein, and that zoning ordinances when reasonable in object and not arbitrary in operation constitute a justifiable exercise of police power, and as intendment is in favor of the validity of such ordinances the court will not substitute its judgment for that of the zoning action.
Lockard v. The City of Los Angeles, 33 Cal. 2d 453.
Clemens v. The City of Los Angeles, 36 Cal.2d 95.
Wheeler v. Gregg, 90 Cal. App. 2d 348.
Burke v. City of Los Angeles, 68 Cal. App.2d 189.
Ex Parte Quong Wo, 161 Cal 222.
Miller v. Board of Public Works, 95 Cal. 485.
Zahn v. Board of Public Works, 195 Cal. 497.
People v. Norton, 108 Cal. App. Supp. 767.
Otis v. City of Los Angeles. 52 Cal. App. 2d 605.
Hadacheck v. Alexander. 169 Cal. 616.
Brown v. City of Los Angeles. 183 Cal. 783, 789.
Ex Parte Hadacheck.165 Cal. 416.
Marblehead Land Co. v. City of Los Angeles, 47 Fed. 2d 528.
Kort v. City of Los Angeles, 52 Cal. App. 2d 804.
Acker v. Baldwin, 18 Cal 2d 341.
In re Ruppe, 80 Cal. App. 629.
Village of Euclid v. Amber Realty Co., 272 U.S. 365, 71 L. Ed. 303.
Wilkins v. City of San Bernardino, 29 Cal 2d 332.
The right to use private property may be restricted by an ordinance which follows a reasonable plan even though the use is neither a nuisance per se, nor a menace to health, safety or morals in the district from which it is excluded. A retroactive ordinance which causes substantial injury to a business which is not a nuisance would be unreasonable and unjustifiable.
People v. Nixon, CR A 2201.
Comprehensive Zoning is a legitimate exercise of the police power and city ordinances prohibiting the production of oil in designated zones are valid if reasonable and not arbitrary.
Beverly Oil Company v. City of Los Angeles, 40 Cal. 2nd 552.
Any zoning regulation is a valid exercise of the police power which is necessary to subserve the ends for which the police power exists, namely, the promotion of the public health, safety, morals, and general welfare. The police power as evidence in zoning ordinances has a much wider scope than the mere oppression of offensive users of property. Such regulations do not constitute a taking of property for which compensations must be made.
Miller v. Board of Public Works. 195 Cal. 482.
It is not a ground of invalidity of a zoning ordinance that a business is lawful, innocent, inoffensive and dignified, for if restrictions on business could be invalidated on that ground there could be no such thing as comprehensive city planning.
Kort v. City of Los Angeles, 52 Cal. App. 2nd, 804, 809.
A master plan or some over-all plan contemplated by a city in the development and building up of a subdivision need not be approved and adopted before authority vests in relation to conditions imposed by the city on a subdivider, where a Charter contemplates that portion of the plan may be adopted.
Ayers v. City of Los Angeles, 34 Cal. 2d 31.