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ORDINANCE NO. 98-115OU
AN INTERIM ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF CARSON
ESTABLISHING A MORATORIUM ON THE ESTABLISHMENT
OF MASSAGE PARLORS AND DECLARING
THE URGENCY THEREOF
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CARSON DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Moratorium. Notwithstanding any other ordinance or provision of the
Carson Municipal Code, no person shall establish, and the City of Carson shall not
accept or approve applications for subdivisions, use permits, variances, building
permits, business licenses, or any other applicable entitlement to establish a massage
parlor in any portion of the City during the duration of this Ordinance.
Section 2. Definition. For purposes of this Ordinance, the term "massage parlor"
shall mean a place where massages, fomentations, electric or magnetic treatment or
alcohol rubs are administered or given; provided, however, that "massage parlor" shall
not include any place where such treatments are personally administered in good faith
in the course of practice of any healing art by any person licensed to practice such art
or profession under state law.
Section 3. Exclusions. The moratorium established in Section 1 above shall not
apply to the establishment of a business that has obtained all required permits and
licenses and has commenced operation as of the effective date of this Ordinance.
Section 4. Duration. This Ordinance shall expire and terminate forty-five (45)
days after the date of adoption thereof unless extended by the City Council, at a duly
noticed public hearing, pursuant to Section 65858 of the California Government Code.
Section 5. Declaration of Urgency. The City of Carson has received two
separate applications for permits to establish a massage parlor. Based on the
experience of other municipalities that have approved massage parlor uses, the City
Council finds that unless strictly regulated massage parlors generate adverse impacts
on neighboring properties and the community generally. The City of Carson's existing
massage regulations were enacted over twenty-five years ago, and may not be
sufficient to prevent such negative effects. For this reason, there is a current and
immediate threat to the public health, safety or welfare. The approval of additional
subdivisions, use permits, variances, building permits or any other applicable
entitlement for a massage parlor use would result in that threat to the public health,
safety or welfare.
The City of Carson intends to study, within a reasonable time, a zoning proposal
concerning the location and operation of massage parlors. Pending completion of this
review and adoption of any necessary modifications to existing ordinances, it is
necessary for the preservation of the public peace, health, safety and welfare that this
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Ordinance take effect immediately. In the absence of immediate effectiveness, new
massage parlors may be established that would result in adverse impacts on
neighboring uses, and the community generally, and that conflict with the regulations
ultimately adopted by the City.
Due to the foregoing circumstances, it is necessary for the preservation of the
public peace, health, safety and welfare that this Ordinance take effect immediately.
PASSED, APPROVED AND ADOPTED this 6'" day of October, 1998.
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CITY CLERK `� �% MAYOR
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
CI ATTORNEY
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS.
CITY OF CARSON )
1, Helen S. Kawagoe, City Clerk of the City of Carson, California, do hereby certify that the
whole number of members of the City Council of said City is five; that the foregoing ordinance, being
Ordinance No. 98-115OU was duly and regularly adopted by the City Council of said City on an urgency
basis at a regular meeting of said Council, duly and regularly held on the 6th day of October, 1998, and
that the same was passed and adopted by the following roll call vote:
AYES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: Mayor Fajardo, Calas, Olaes, O'Neal and Sweeney
NOES: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSTAIN: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSENT: COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
City Clerk, City of Ca n, California
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