HomeMy WebLinkAbout4/24/2002 - STAFF REPORTS (21) DATE: April 24, 2002
l TO: City Council
FROM: Executive Director-Airports
SUBJECT: PARKING STRUCTURE CONSTRUCTION - ORDINANCE
SUSPENSION
RECOMMENDATION:
It is recommended that the City Council take action to temporarily suspend, for the term of
the Parking Structure construction, noise and construction hours regulatory ordinances.
SUMMARY:
This action would result in suspension of the noise and construction hours regulatory
ordinances to allow expedited construction of the Parking Structure.
BACKGROUND:
The City Council has expressed a desire to fast-track the construction of the Downtown
Parking Structure so as to not adversely affect downtown businesses later than
Thanksgiving of 2002. To accomplish this compressed construction schedule, as well as
to accommodate the required continuous pours and proper concrete curing, construction
will occur at all hours of the day and night.
Precautions will be taken on the site to mitigate as many effects on the surrounding
neighborhoods as possible.
Attached is a proposed Ordinance which would temporarily suspend the Noise Ordinance
and the Construction Hours Ordinance from the effective date through January 31, 2003 for
work emanating from the Downtown Parking Structure site.
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Allen F. Smoot, Executive Director-Airports
APPROVED
City Manager
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Attachments:
1. Ordinance
ORDINANCE NO.
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF PALM SPRINGS,
CALIFORNIA, PERTAINING ONLY TO THE DOWNTOWN
PARKING STRUCTURE CONSTRUCTION ACTIVITY,
TEMPORARILY SUSPENDING THE NOISE ORDINANCE AND
CONSTRUCTION HOURS ORDINANCE FOR THE DURATION
OF THE DOWNTOWN PARKING STRUCTURE
CONSTRUCTION.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PALM SPRINGS,CALIFORNIA,DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. FINDINGS
A. The City Council finds that the benefit derived fxom the construction o f a parking structure
in the Downtown, as approved by the voters in November of 2001, is significant to the
ongoing efforts to enhance the marketable image of the City of Palm Springs.
B. The City Comicil finds that certain regulatory ordinances generally desirable and necessary
may, nonetheless, impede the timely completion of the Downtown Parking Structure; and
that the operation of such regulatory ordinances should be suspended during the construction
period of the parking stricture in that designated location to facilitate the parking structure
construction-
C. The City Council .[finds that the public interest in expediting the construction of the
Downtown? Parking Structure and the benefits to be derived therefrom outweigh the
temporary public inconvenience entailed in the suspension of such regulatory ordinances,
and that the public welfare and interest will be served by such suspensions.
SECTION 2. SUSPENSION OF REGULATORY ORDINANCES
The City Council does hereby temporarily suspend Section 8.04.220 Limitation of fours of
Construction and Section 11.74.042 Construction(Noise Prohibition). The temporary suspension
of these Palm Springs Municipal Code sections specifically relate to the construction activity at the
Downtown Parking Structure site (Indian Avenue on the east, Palrn Canyon Drive on the west,
Baristo Road on the south,and Arenas Road on the north),and do not apply to other locations within
the City,and are only effective froze the effective date of this Ordinance through January 31,2003.
SECTION 3. EFFECTIVE DATE
This Ordinance shall be in full force and effect thirty (30) days after:7wpassage,
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Ordinance Temporarily Suspending
Noise Ordinance and Construction Hours
During Construction of Downtown Parking Structure
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SECTION 4. PUBLICATION
The City Clerk is hereby ordered and directed to certify to the passing of this Ordinance, and to
cause the saine or a surarnary thereof by display advertisement, duly prepared according to law,to
be published in accordance with law.
ADOPTED this day of 12002.
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ATTEST: CITY OF PALM SPRINGS, CALIFORNIA
By.
City Clerk City Manager
REVIEWED .AND ADOPTED AS TO FORM: