HomeMy WebLinkAboutAGENDA REPORT 1997 0219 CC SPC ITEM 03AORDINANCE NO. 22A
AN INTERIM ZONING ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE
CITY OF MOORPARK, CALIFORNIA, ADOPTED AS AN URGENCY
MEASURE, IMPOSING A MORATORIUM ON THE ACCEPTANCE OF
APPLICATIONS FOR NEW LAND USES FOR PROPERTIES ON THE
SOUTH SIDE OF LOS ANGELES AVENUE AND EAST SIDE OF SPRING
ROAD, EAST OF AND ADJACENT TO THE PROPOSED DOWNTOWN
SPECIFIC PLAN AREA
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF MOORPARK, CALIFORNIA, DOES
ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The City Council finds and declares that the City
is presently in the process of developing a Specific Plan for the
Downtown area and that consideration should be given to inclusion
of certain properties that are east of and adjacent to the
boundaries of the proposed Downtown Specific Plan Area, given that
said parcels are the major undeveloped or under developed land in
the core area of the City not presently within the proposed
Specific Plan Area and the purpose of the Downtown Specific Plan is
to promote a comprehensive development scheme for the City's core
area.
SECTION 2. The City Council hereby directs the Community
Development Department to conduct a study relative to amending the
boundaries of the Downtown Specific Plan to include three vacant
parcels (8f acres) located on the northeast corner of Spring Road
and Flinn Avenue and (3 parcels) located on Los Angeles Avenue,
north of the railroad tracks currently used as a construction yard
and assorted industrial uses. In connection with said study, the
City Council contemplates consideration of adoption of the Downtown
Specific Plan within a reasonable time.
SECTION 3. For the period of time that this ordinance is in
full force and effect, no application shall be accepted or approved
for new land uses on the affected parcels(assessors parcel numbers
512 -0 -171 -215, 512 -0 -171 -205, 512 -0- 171 -185, 512 -0 -160 -585, 512 -0-
160 -595, 512 -0 -016 -070).
SECTION 4. Pursuant to Government Code Sections 36937 and
65858, the City Council hereby finds and declares this Ordinance to
be an urgency ordinance, requiring the immediate enactment thereof,
because there is a current and immediate threat to the public
health, safety or welfare of the City and its citizens and the
processing, approval and issuance of additional permits pursuant to
Title 17, Zoning, of the Moorpark Municipal Code would result in
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Downtown Specific Plan
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that threat to public health, safety or welfare. The facts
constituting such urgency and threat are as set forth in Sections
1 and 2 of this Ordinance.
SECTION 5. This Ordinance shall be effective immediately upon
its adoption, and shall expire and be of no further force and
effect as of April 5, 1997, unless sooner extended after notice
pursuant to Government Code Section 65090 and a public hearing.
SECTION 6. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause,
phrase, part or portion of this Ordinance is for any reason held to
be invalid or unconstitutional by any court of competent
jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the
remaining portions of this Ordinance. The City Council declares
that it would have adopted this Ordinance and each section,
subsection, sentence, clause, phrase, part or portion thereof,
irrespective of the fact that any one or more section, subsections,
sentences, clauses, phrases, parts or portions be declared invalid
or unconstitutional.
SECTION 7. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage and
adoption of this ordinance; shall enter the same in the book of
original ordinances of said City; shall make a minute of the
passage and adoption thereof in the records of the proceedings of
the City Council at which the same is passed and adopted; and
shall, within fifteen (15) days after the passage and adoption
thereof, cause the same to be published once in the Moorpark Star,
a daily newspaper of general circulation, as defined in Section
6008 of the Government Code, for the City of Moorpark, and which is
hereby designated for that purpose.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by not less than a four - fifths vote of the
City Council this 19th day of February , 1997.
Patrick Hunter, Mayor
ATTEST:
Lillian E. Hare, City Clerk