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RESOLUTION NO. 92-2
A RESOLUTION OF THE PLANNING COMMISSION OF
THE CITY OF DIAMOND BAR RECOMMENDING THAT
THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF DIAMOND BAR
APPROVE THE REPEAL OF THE OAR TREE PERMIT
PROCESS AND THE REPLACEMENT OF SUCH WITH
A TREE PRESERVATION ORDINANCE.
Recitals.
(i) The City of Diamond Bar is recognized for its
unique and distinguished natural and improved physical
environment. A major element of such physical environment is the
varieties of trees, including naturally occurring stands of oak,
walnut, scyamore and pepper trees. These trees value to the
community is such that all reasonable efforts should be
undertaken to preserve and enhance them. Such measures must also
be balanced against the circumstances which may require the
removal, relocation or maintenance of such trees.
(ii) The City of Diamond Bar presently is without
adequate regulations which serve to foster the preservation of
such trees while responding to the needs of owners of the
properties on which such trees may be sited.
(iii) The Planning Commission has extensively
considered the issues related to a balanced tree preservation
ordinance, and has, with the benefit of public input, developed
proposed tree preservation ordinance which it hereby recommends
to the City Council for its review and adoption.
(iv) All legal prerequisites to the adoption of this
Resolution have occurred.
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B. Resolution.
NOW, THEREFORE, the Planning Commission of the City of
Diamond Bar, California finds and resolves as follows:
SECTION 1. In all respects as set forth in the
Recitals, Part A, hereinabove.
SECTION 2. That the Diamond Bar Planning Commission
recommends that the Council of the City of Diamond Bar approve
and adopt the proposed tree preservation ordinance attached
hereto as Exhibit "111.
SECTION 3. That the City of Diamond Bar is in the
process of finalizing its draft General Plan and that, on the
basis of such draft plan there is a reasonable probability that
the intent of this Ordinance will be consistent with the goals,
policies and objectives of the ultimate General plan. Further,
there is little or no probability of substantial detriment to or
interference with the ultimately adopted general plan if
inconsistencies are ultimately present because the preservation
of both the naturally occurring and introduced trees will enhance
the City and the environment which will be of benefit to the
present and future community. Finally, this action is undertaken
in conformance with all applicable laws.
SECTION 4. The Planning Commission finds and
determines that the ordinance proposed by this Resolution is
categorically exempt from the requirements of the California
Environmental Quality Act of 1970, as amended, and the Guidelines
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promulgated thereunder pursuant to Section 15307 of Division 6 of
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Title 14 of the California Code of Regulations.
SECTION 5. That the Secretary to the Planning
Commission deliver this resolution to the City Clerk.
ADOPTED AND APPROVED this 13th day of January, 1992.
Chairman
I, JAMES DESTEFANO, Secretary of the Planning
Commission of the City of Diamond Bar, do hereby certify that the
foregoing Resolution was introduced at a regular meeting of the
Planning Commission of the City of Diamond Bar held on the 13th
day of January, 1992, and was finally passed at a regular meeting
of the Planning Commission of the City of Diamond Bar held on the
13th day of January, 1992, by the following vote:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
ABSTAINED:
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COUNCIL MEMBERS: GROTHE, HARMONY, FLAMENBAUM
and SCHEY
COUNCIL MEMBERS:
COUNCIL MEMBERS:
COUNCIL MEMBERS:
ATTEST:
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