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Home My Public Portal AboutOrd. 1150 ORDINANCE NO. 1150 AN URGENCY ORDINANCE OI' THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITX OF LYNWOOD AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 570, THE ZONING ORDINANCE, REGULATING THE USE AND LOCATION OF AMUSEMENT ARCADES IN THE CITY'S COMMERCIAL ZONE The City Council of the City of Lynwood DOES HEREBY ORDAIN as follows: SECTION 1. Section 8.01 amended by adding the following; 4a. Arcade (Providing that 8.12 are met). of the Zoning Ordinance is the requirements of Section Section 2. Chapter VIII of the Zoning Ordinance is amende~by adding Section 8.12. to read as follows: SECTION 8.12 RESTRICTION ON ARCADES Arcades consisting of four (4 ) or more coin operated amusement machines shall be permitted in the C-2 Zone with a Conditional Use Permit. The following conditions and standards shall be met and maintained: 1. The use shall be conducted entirely within a building. Where an arcade is maintained in a structure in which other business activities are conducted, the arcade area shall be separated from the non-arcade area by partition or other means in such a manner as to facilitate enforcement of the arcade restrictions contained herein. 2. No premises shall be open to the public unless at least one (1) adult attendant is present during all hours of operation whose responsibility it shall be to maintain order on said premises. 3. No such use shall be operated within 500 feet of any property used for a public or private school or within 500 feet of any other amusement arcade. 4. The arcade area of any establishment shall not be open for business betweeen 2 A.M, and 6 A.M. Persons under the age of 18 years shall not be permitted in the arcade area of any establishment before 3 P.M, on days when the Lynwood Unified School District is in session (such days being "school days") ar after 10 P.M, on any days preceding a school day, unless accompanied by a parent or guardian. persons under 18 years of age may remain in, enter, or visit such arcades until 12 midnight on Fridays, Saturdays and other days not preceding school days. 5. Reasonable conditions pertaining to the construction and maintenance of the facility may be imposed so as to congregationthof effect of noise, other factors deemed sons, parking and to the to be detrimental welfare ofpthelcommunity J safety and 6• Such uses shall provide at least one (1) bicycle rack capable of retaining six (6) bicycles. SECTION 3. Severability. If an subdivision, sentence, clause Y section, subsection, ordinance, or the a ~ Phrase or portion is for an PPlication thereof to an °f this y reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional Mace, decision of any court of competent jurisdiction shall not affect Y the ordinance or its the validity of the remainin ' such decision Cit aPPlication to other g Portions of this Y Council hereby declares that it would ns or places. The ordinance, and each section, subsection have ado clause, phrase or subdivision, sent ences that Portion thereof, irrespective of the fact any one or more sections, subsections, subdivisions, sentences, clauses, phrases, or portions, or the thereof to any person or place, be declared unconstitutional. aPPlication invalid or SECTION 4. Urgency. This ordinance shall take imme3iately uupon passage hereof by a four-fifths effect the Council. Such urgency is necessitated b (4~5) vote of proliferation of amusement arcades within y the recent suitable regulation for the the City without preservation of the Protection of minors and the presently has no ordinance which~regulatesathesusetand location of arcades. Amusement arcades within this City and others in the greater Los Angeles area have been found to create law enforcement problems including those related to the congregation of children around arcades late at night. Such arcades also provide a significant inducement to truancy by minors unless properly regulated as to location and hours of operation, as provided in this ordinance. The immediate regulation of these arcade uses is necessary in order to prevent the proliferation of such arcades prior to the effective date of the ordinance and to provide immediate regulation for the protection of minors and surrounding land uses. SECTION 5. The Cit directed~'to certify to the Clerk is hereby ordered and cause the same to be Passage of this ordinance and to newspaper of general P i rculationce in the Lynwood press, a circulated in the City of Lynwood. ' Printed, published, and Passed, approved and adopted at a regular meeting of said Council held on this lgth day of ~anuary , 1982. AYES: COUNCILMEN GREEN, MORRIS, ROWE, THOMPSON, BYORK NOES: NONE ABSENT: NONE JO D. BYORK, Mayor -- Ci y of Lynwood -2- ATTEST; RENE COFF y"Ci ty~ k .I` City of Lynwood U APPRO D AS TO F ORM; C CI A T EY` APPROVED AS TO -3- STATE OF' CALIFORNIA ) ss. COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) I, the undersigned, City Clerk of the City of Lynwood, and ex-oY£icio clerk of the Council of said City, do hereby certify that the above is a true and correct copy of Ordinance No. _1150 adopted b,y the City Council of the City of Lynwood, and that the same tras passed on the date and by the vote therein stated. Dated this 20th da,y of January_ 19 g2 C ~ ti ' ~~v ~.~iu/ City ~ 1 rk, City of Lq urood' '~ SEAL)