HomeMy WebLinkAboutORD 1285ORD 128579wV ×P • Y˜ö URGENCY
ORDINANCE NO. 1285
AN URGENCY ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF BALDWIN
PARK EXTENDING A CITYWIDE MORATORIUM ON THE
ESTABLISHMENT OF ADULT-ORIENTED BUSINESSES
AND TRUCKING TERMINALS/STORAGE YARDS WITHIN
THE CITY OF BALDWIN PARK
WHEREAS, on April 20.2005, the City Council of the City of Baldwin Park adopted
an urgency ordinance, Ordinance No. 1257, establishing a 45-day moratorium on the
establishment of adult-oriented businesses and trucking terminals/storage yards within the
City of Baldwin Park;
WHEREAS, on June 1, 2005 the City Council of the City of Baldwin Park adopted
Ordinance No. 1263, extending that moratorium; and
WHEREAS, on April 5, 2006, the City Council conducted a public hearing, notice of
which was given pursuant to Government Code Section 65090, on the potential extension
of the moratorium.
NOW THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF BALDWIN PARK
ORDAINS AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Based upon the information presented at the public hearing, including
but not limited to the oral and written staff reports, the City Council hereby finds and
determines as follows:
A. Following the updating of the General Plan of the City of Baldwin Park in
November 2002, the City Council directed the Planning Division to review the City's Zoning
Code and Zoning Maps to assure that they are consistent with the revised general Plan
Land use map and other provisions of the General Plan as well as internally consistent,
understandable, and in compliance with all applicable federal and state law. The Planning
Division has undertaken the preliminary steps required for such work, including but not
limited to the preparation of an Administrative Draft of the Zoning Code, and is actively
proceeding with the studies required to implement the City Councils direction.
B. Two areas of particular concern have been determined through the initial
work undertaken by the Planning Division: 1) the City's existing standards for adult-
oriented businesses, as defined in Baldwin park Municipal Code Section 153.440, require
detailed study and review to assure that they are both consistent with current legal
requirements, and contain sufficient safeguards to protect the public health, safety, and
welfare, including but not limited to, the separation of such businesses from sensitive land
uses such as parks, places of worship, and residential uses given the 2002 revisions to the
General Plan Land Use Map; and 2) the City presently has insufficient standards for
trucking terminals which may also be used for the storage of materials and items either
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within or outside of the trucks using such terminals trucking terminals/storage yards")
including but not limited to waste materials hauled by such trucks.
C. The City has been studying the appropriate locations for adult-oriented
businesses and for trucking terminals/storage yards and the appropriate mechanisms to
regulate such uses, and the City Council anticipated that the zoning proposals relating
thereto will be brought forward for hearing by the Planning Commission and City Council
within a reasonable time.
D. The implementation of adult-oriented businesses in the absence of
appropriate mechanisms, as permitted by law, to regulate such uses, including but not
limited to locating such uses in areas where the secondary impacts as such uses will have
the least effect, may be in conflict with the contemplated zoning proposals, and in light of
such potential conflict, the approval of additional subdivisions, use permits, variances,
building permits, or any other applicable entitlement for such as use which is required to
comply with a zoning ordinance or with Baldwin Park Municipal Code Chapter 124
constitutes a current and immediate threat to the public health, safety or welfare.
E. The implementation of trucking terminals/storage yards without appropriate
mechanism, as permitted by law, to regulate such uses constitutes a current and
immediate threat to the public health, safety or welfare in that such uses may impose
adverse impacts on surrounding properties, including but not limited to noise and odor, and
on the City itself if the storage consists of waste material which must be properly accounted
for so as not to be deemed generated within the City of Baldwin Park, and the approval of
additional subdivisions, use permits, variances, building permits, or any other applicable
entitlements for such as use which is required to comply with a zoning ordinance
constitutes a current and immediate threat to the public health, safety and welfare.
SECTION 1. Pursuant to Government Code 65858, the City Council hereby
extends the moratorium established by Ordinance No. 1257, and extended by Ordinance
No. 1263, on the development of all adult-oriented businesses within the City and on the
issuance of any permits, approvals, or entitlements, for use for such development,
including but not limited to subdivisions, use permits, variances, building permits, or any
other applicable permit or entitlement for use which is required in order to comply with the
City's Zoning Ordinances or with Baldwin Park Municipal Code Chapter 124 until the earlier
of April 19, 2006 being 12 months after the date of termination set forth in Ordinance
1263) or the effective date of new zoning requirements for the development of adult-
oriented businesses. Said moratorium shall not apply to the development of adult-oriented
businesses for which building permits have been issued on or before the effective date of
this ordinance.
SECTION 2. If any part or provision of this ordinance or its application to any
person or circumstance is held invalid, the remainder of this ordinance, including the
application as such part or provision to other persons or circumstances, shall not be affect
and shall continue un full force and effect. To this end, the provisions of this ordinance are
severable.
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APPROVED, PASSED AND ADOPTED this 5tr, day of April, 2006.
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MAYO
ATTEST:
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ss.
CITY OF BALDWIN PARK
I, LAURA M. NIETO, Deputy City Clerk, of the City of Baldwin Park, do hereby
certify that the foregoing Ordinance 1285 was adopted as an urgency matter at a regular
meeting of the City Council held April 5, 2006, by the following vote of the Council:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: Anthony J. Bejarano, Marlen Garcia, Ricardo
Pacheco, Mayor Pro Tern David J. Olivas and
Mayor Manuel Lozano
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE
ABSTAIN: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE
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URA M. NIETO
DEPUTY CITY CLERK
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