Municipal Code, Complete - City of Santa Barbara

After receiving such report and recommendation, the City Council shall consider the zoning classification to be
applied upon annexation to property to be annexed. The City Council may include any such zone consideration
within any notice of hearing concerning the annexation of the property involved, and the hearing on the matter of
zoning may be held in conjunction with any public hearing required by law to be held by the City Council in
connection with the annexation proceedings.
Concurrent with or prior to final annexation of the territory, the City Council shall, by ordinance, classify the
property for zoning purposes in accordance with its determination, and upon the effective date of such classification
ordinance, or the annexation ordinance, whichever is the later, the zone classification shall be effective and a part of
the General Plan of the City.
The Council may as an alternative to any of the foregoing proceedings for the zoning of annexed territory:
1. Allow the same to be finally annexed without zoning the land therein, and may initiate zoning thereof
under other provisions of this title after annexation; or
2. The Council may provide by ordinance effective prior to completion of annexation proceedings upon
recommendation of the Planning Commission that the territory to be annexed shall as a condition of annexation
remain classified the same as it was classified or zoned as unincorporated territory where as such territory it was
classified as to land use by the County of Santa Barbara pursuant to a general plan of zoning. (Ord. 3710, 1974; Ord.
2592, 1957.)
Section:
28.97.001 In General.
28.97.001 In General.
Chapter 28.97
OCCUPANCY
No vacant land shall be occupied or used, and no building hereafter erected, structurally altered or moved shall be
occupied or used, until a Certificate of Occupancy shall have been issued by the Chief of Building and Zoning.
1. Certificates of Occupancy for a new building, or the enlargement, alteration or moving of an existing
building, shall be applied for coincidentally with the application for a building permit and shall be issued within ten
(10) days after the erection or alteration of such building shall have been completed in conformity with the provisions
of the ordinance.
2. Certificates of Occupancy for the use of vacant land, or the change in use of land as herein provided, shall be
applied for before any such land shall be occupied or used for any purpose except that of tilling the soil and the
growing therein of farm, garden or orchard products, and a Certificate of Occupancy shall be issued within ten (10)
days after the application has been made provided such use is in conformity with the provisions of this title.
3. Certificates of Occupancy shall state that the building, or proposed use of a building or land, complies with
all the building and health laws and ordinances and with the provisions of this title. A record of all certificates shall
be kept on file in the Office of the Chief of Building and Zoning and copies shall be furnished on request to any
person having a proprietary or tenancy interest in the building or land affected. No fee shall be charged for an
original Certificate; for all other Certificates or for copies of any original Certificates there shall be a charge of two
dollars ($2.00) each.
4. Certificate of Occupancy for non-conforming uses existing at the time of passage of this title or any
amendment thereto shall be issued by the Chief of Building and Zoning and the Certificate shall state that the use is a
nonconforming use and does not conform with the provisions of this title.
5. No permit for excavation for any building shall be issued before an application has been made for a
Certificate of Occupancy. (Ord. 3710, 1974.)
560-10 rev. 3/31/06