HomeMy WebLinkAbout1735 RESOLUTION NO. 1735
A RESOLUTION of the City of Bremerton, Washington
providing for submission to the qualified electors
of the City at the general election to be held
November 8, 1977, of an initiative amending the
initiative approved by the qualified electors at
a special election held on May 17, 1977, amending
City of Bremerton Ordinance 1792, the City zoning
ordinance, as amended by Ordinances 3210 and 3354.
WHEREAS, the qualified electors of the City of Bremerton
approved at a special election held May 17, 1977 an initiative proposition
amending Section 328 of Ordinance ~792 as amended by Ordinances 3210 and
3354, and
WHEREAS, difficulties of interpretation of the language of
said initiative measure arose in the administration of the same, and
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Bremerton has
moved to have an amending ordinance submitted to the qualified electors
for their approval or rejection and the City Charter calling for the same
to be submitted under a ballot title prepared therefor by the City Attorney,
the City Attorney having prepared the same.
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY OF BREMERTON:
That Section 328 of Ordinance No. 1792 as amended by Ordinance
No. 3210 as amended by Ordinance No. 3354 as amended by the initiative
measure approved by the qualified electors at the special election held
on May 17, 1977 should be amended to read as follows:
Section 328 Site Area
Every building hereafter erected or structurally altered
which is located in a Residential-One District, shall
provide a lot area of not less than forty-eight hundred
(4800) square feet with a minimum width of 50 feet for a
single-family dwelling, except that a duplex may be erected
on a lot area of not less than fifty-eight hundred (5800)
square feet of land with a minimum width of fifty (50)
feet. Lots may not be deplatted in a Residential-One
District, nor may any lot be replatted to include more than
12,5OO square feet. Such replatting may be done only to
adjust angular lot lines. Sixty-five percent (65%) of the area of
all sites must be left in open spaces free of structures~
Provided, however, that where a lot has less area than
herein required, as shown by the last conveyance of record
prior to November 24, 1942, or as determined by the Commis-
sion, this regulation shall not prohibit one (]) single
family dwelling and its accessory buildings on such lot.
RESOLVED that the above initiative measure should be submitted
to the qualified electors of the City of Bremerton at the general election
to be held on the 8th day of November, 1977.
RESOLVED that the City Clerk is hereby authorized and directed
to certify said initiative proposition to the Kitsap County Auditor, and
the Kitsap County Auditor is requested to place the same before the certified
electors of the City of Bremerton in the following form:
CITY OF BREMERTON
PROPOSITION NO. l
INITIATIVE MEASURE
Shall the City Zoning Ordinance be
amended to allow building or alteration
of structures crossing lot lines?
FOR Initiative Proposition No. I .......... /
AGAINST Initiative Proposition No. 1 .......... /
RESOLVED that the Council hereby finds and declares that in
order to assure adequate voter turnout and to reduce election expenses,
the initiative proposition set forth in this resolution shall be submitted
to the qualified electors in the general election to be held November 8,
1977.
PASSED by the City Council of the City of Bremerton, signed by
the Mayor and attested by the City Clerk in authentication of such passage
this 2Ist day of September 1977.
GLENN K. JARSTAD, Mayor
ATTEST:
G.C. YEADON, SR., City Clerk