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ORDINANCE NO. 1994
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY
OF LYNWOOD TEMPORARILY PROHIBITING THE
ESTABLISHMENT OF OFF-SALE LIQUOR
ESTABLISHMENTS, AND ESTABLISHING AN INTERIM
ZONING ORDINANCE
The City Council of the City of Lynwood does hereby
ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. The City Council finds and determines
that, in accordance with the official Zoning Ordinance of the
City of Lynwood, off-sale liquor establishments are authorized
uses in commercial zones;
SECTION 2. The City Council further finds and
determines that no regulations exist presently pertaining to
the land use requirements of off-sale liquor establishments in
the City;
SECTION 3. The City Council further finds and ,
determines that off-sale liquor establishments have concomitant
noise, traffic, parking, law enforcement, social and economic
impacts in commercial zones, which are in immediate need of
study by the City's Community Development Department;
SECTION 4. The City Council hereby directs the
Community Development Department to commence immediately a
study to determine the proper zoning classification and/or
regulations that should be adopted for future siting and/or
development of off-sale liquor establishments;
SECTION 5. This ordinance is an interim urgency
zoning ordinance enacted pursuant to California Government Code
Section 65858, and in accordance therewith shall be of no
further force and effect forty-five (45) days from the date
hereof; provided, however, that the Council may extend this
ordinance for an additional ten (10) months and fifteen (15)
days,-and may subsequently extend it for one (1) year, subject
to the terms and provisions of Section 65858.
SECTION 6. The City Council hereby finds, determines
and declares that the immediate preservation of the public
health, safety and welfare necessitates the enactment of this
ordinance as an urgency measure. A declaration of fact
constituting its urgency is as follows:
A. The City Council has heretofore adopted a General
Plan for the City and a comprehensive Zoning
Ordinance to regulate land use within the City.
The zoning requirements have been adopted with a
view towards balancing the various interests of
the community and ensuring that no use is
permitted which unreasonably interferes with the
use and enjoyment of adjacent properties; and
B. The City presently has one liquor establishment
for approximately every five hundred (500)
residents. The County of Los Angeles, as a
whole, has one liquor establishment for every
eight hundred fifty (850) persons; and
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C. Off-sale liquor establishments have a high
potential to provie problematic to the City
because the accompanying traffic hazards,
loitering, increased criminal activity, which
necessitates concomitant increases in law
enforcement activities and resources; and
D. Pending a comprehensive study o£ the proper
zoning regulations pertaining to the
aforementioned off-sale liquor establishments, it
is necessary that a moratorium be placed on the
further issuance of any building permits, use
permits, or other authorizations for any off-sale
liquor establishments, in order to protect the
public health, safety, comfort and welfare; and
E. To enact this ordinance after the giving of
notice, the holding of public hearings and two
readings thereof, and wait thirty (30) days for
said ordinance to become effective, will be
detrimental to the public health, safety and
welfare. It is therefore necessary that this
ordinance go into effect immediately upon
adoption.
SECTION 7. Notwithstanding any other contrary
provision of the Lynwood Municipal Code, no additional off-sale
liouor establishments, shall be allowed in commercial zones
during the term of this ordinance;
SECTION 8. If any section, subsection, subdivision,
sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this ordinance, or the
application thereof to any person or place, is for any reason
held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any
court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect
the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance or its
application to other persons or places. The City Council
hereby declares that it would have adopted this ordinance, and
each section, subsection, subdivision, sentence, clause, phrase
or portion thereof, irrespective of the fact that any one or
more sections, subdivisions, sentences, clauses, phrases, or
portions, or the application thereof to any person or place, be
declared invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 9. The City Clerk is hereby ordered and
directed to certify to the passage of this ordinance and to
cause the same to be published once in the Lynwood Press, a
newspaper of general circulation, printed, published, and
circulated in the City of Lynwood.
ADPROVED AND ADOPTED this 20thday of
1964, by the following vote:
MARCH ,
AYES: COUNCILMEN BYORK, REPINING, ROWE, THOMPSON, MORRIS
NOES: NONE
ABSEIQT: NONE
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E. L': MORRIS,-MAYOR
CITY OF LYNWOOD ~
ATTEST:
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ANDREA L. HOOPER, City Clerk
APPROVE AS TO EOF!h?:
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D VID R. C WEN, City Attcrney
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STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
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COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES )
I, the undersigned, City Clerk of the City of Lynwood, and
ex-officio clerk of the Council of said City, do hereby certify that the
above is a true and correct copy of Ordinance No. -1224 adopted by
the City Council of the City of Lynwood, and that the same was passed on
the date and by the vote therein stated.
Dated this 23rd day of March 1984.
(SEAL)
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City Clerk, City of Lynwood