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ORDINANCE NO. 4 6 0 0
ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 16.28.170 AND
ADDING SECTION 17.04.395 TO THE BAKERSFIELD
MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO FLAG LOTS
BE IT ORDAINED by the Council of the City of Bakersfield as follows:
SECTION 1.
Section 16.28.170 E of the Bakersfield Municipal Code is hereby amended
to read as follows:
16.28.170 Lots.
E. Flag Lots. Flag lots shall not be allowed except where there is no
other reasonable design alternative as determined by the planning commission.
A flag lot means a lot with two discernible portions; one is the flag portion
(building site) not fronting on or abutting a street and located behind another
lot; and the second is the pole portion which provides private access to and
from the flag portion of the lot and the abutting street. The minimum width of
the pole portion of the flag lot shall be twenty feet and have a maximum length
of 125 feet from the right-of-way line to the flag portion of the lot. The pole
portion of the flag lot shall not be included for the purpose of computing
minimum lot area, lot width, or lot depth. The flag portion of the lot and the lot
in front of the flag lot shall both meet minimum lot design standards of this title,
except as approved in accordance with sub-section 16.28.170 O. Non-buildable
easements shall be recorded over the pole portion of the flag lot, and define
building to property line setbacks on each flag lot as determined adequate by
the planning commission.
SECTION 2.
Section 17.04.395 of the Bakersfield Municipal Code is hereby added to
read as follows:
CHAPTER 17.04 DEFINITIONS
17.04.395 Lots, Flag.
A flag lot means a lot with two discernible portions, one is the flag portion
(building site)not fronting on or abutting a street and located behind another
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lot; and the second is the pole portion which provides private access to and
from the flag portion of the lot and the abutting street.
SECTION 3.
This Ordinance shall be posted in accordance with the provisions of the
Bakersfield Municipal Code and shall become effective thirty (30) days from and
after the date of its passage,
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HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was passed and adopted
by the Council of the City of Bakersfield at a regular meeting thereof held on
NOV 0 4 20o9 by the following vote:
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COUNCILMEMBER CARSON, BENHAM, WEIR, COUCH, HANSON, SULLIVAN, SCRIVNER
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ABSTAIN: COUNCILMEMBER Vl(Tm
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBER
PAMELA A. McCARTHY, MMC
CITY CLERK and EX OFFICIO o e
Council of the City of Bakersfield
APPROVED: NOV 0 4 2009
By:
HARVE L. HALL
Mayor
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
VIRGINIA GENNARO
City Attorney
H. RUDNICK
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Deputy City Attorney
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AFFIDAVIT OF POSTING DOCUMENTS
STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
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County of Kern )
PAMELA A. McCARTHY, being duly sworn, deposes and says:
That she is the duly appointed, acting and qualified City Clerk of the City of Bakersfield;
and that on the 9th day of November , 2009 she posted on the Bulletin Board at
City Hall, a full, true and correct copy of the following: Ordinance No. 4600, passed by
the Bakersfield City Council at a meeting held on the 4th day of November, 2009 and
entitled:
ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 16.28.170 AND ADDING SECTION
17.04.395 TO THE BAKERSFIELD MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO FLAG
LOTS
PAMELA A. McCARTHY
City Clerk and Ex Officio of the
Council of the City of Bakersfield
By. 4cAMity DEPU CI k
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