The development, vegetation clearance, and grading standards contained in this article shall apply to all development, grading and other activities on properties which include those ridgelines identified in the “Ridgeline Study” adopted by the City Council in 1978, and an updated on October 11, 1988. The term “protected ridgeline” when used in this article shall mean those ridgelines depicted on the maps in that Ridgeline Study, and any other ridgeline identified by the City Council from time to time. Such ridgelines shall be protected by the application of the (PR) overlay zone or specific plan described in this article, applied pursuant to zoning procedures of Article 29 of this chapter. In considering the application of the (PR) overlay zone to a particular property, the Planning Commission shall consider and advise the Council, as part of its recommendation to the Council, whether public interest would best be served by the public acquisition of the property.
(§ 1, Ord. 1099-NS, eff. April 25, 1991)