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ORDINANCE N0, 766
AN ORDINANCE AMENDING SECTION 2.2 LYNWOOD CITY
CODE TO AUTHORIZE CITY COUNCIL BY RESOLUTION TO
ADJOURN MEETINGS TO A PUBLIC PLACE OTHER THAN
THE CITY HALL LOCATED AT 11330 BULLIS ROAD„
LYNWOOD, CALIFORNIA,
Section l. It is deemed necessary for the immediate
preservation of the public peace, health and sa£ety that this
ordinance shall go into immediate effect and the facts constituting
such necessity are as follows: There is scheduled. on the agenda of
the regular meeting of the City Council for December 15, Zg64, a
public hearing of an appeal From a decision o£ the Planning Commission
of said city recommending to the City Council that a zone change be
denied; that the hearing of the application for this particular change
o£ zone before the said Planning Commission was ad,journed to another
public building of the city outside the Council Chambers and the City
Hall, which accommodates approximately ten times the number of persons
that the Council Chamber does; that almost all of the seats in this
public building were filled by persons who d.esired to hear and to be
heard on the application for said change of zone; that city ordinance
571~ of the City of Lynwood provides that the findings and the decision
of the Planning Commission on an application for a change of zone are
recommendatory only, and that the applicant has the right of an appeal
of a d.ecision denying his application to the City Council, and that
the City Council ahall hear and determine said application de novo;
that already almost al1 of the same persons who attended the hearing
of said application before the Planning Commission have stated their
desire to hear and be heard at the hearing scheduled before the City
Council, besides many more who did not attend, the said hearingj that
the City Council Chamber has only eighty seats; that if the hearing
were held in the Council Chambers, the halls would be jammed with
persons clamoring to hear and to be heard.; that the Chief of the Fire
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Department of this city, and Deputy State Fire Marshal, have notified.
the City Council that they cannot permit crowds to assemble in the
halls o£ the City Hall in such numbers; that all persons interested
have a democratic right to hear and. be heard and the City Council
Chambers will not accord said persons said right.
Section 2, Section 2,2 of the Lynwood City Code shall be
amended to read as £ollows:
`~Section 2.2, Same -- Where Held.
"Al1 meetings of the City Council, regular or special, shall
be held in that certain building designated as 11330 Bullis Road.,
which building is known as the "City Hall of the City of Lynwood,"
except that the City Council may by resolution provide that an
emergeney exists due to the number of persons that are likely to attend.
and desire to hear and to be heard. on a particular matter or matters
pending before the City Council, or for other good and sufficient
reason, in the discretion of the City Council, and that the meeting
be ad~ourned. to some public place outside the Council Chambers and.
the City Hall with sufficient space and facilities to accommodate all
persons desiring to hear and to be heard."
Section 3. A resolition by the City Council to ad~ourn the
meeting thereof to a public place outside the Council Chambers and
the City Hall shall state the reasons why such an emergency exists.
Seetion 4, A copy of this resolution shall be posted on
the Council Chamber door.
Section 5, The City Clerk is hereby ordered and directed
to certiPy to the passage of this ordinance and to cause the same to
be published once in the Lynwood Press, a newspaper of general circu-
lation, printed, published and circulated in the City of Lynwood.
Approved and adopted at a regular meeting of the City
Council of the City of Lynwood held on the lst day of December, 1y64,
by the following vote:
Ayes; Councilmen Duncan, Ham, Siokos, Smith.
Noes: Councilmen None,
Absent: Councilmen MeMillan,
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T, 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, 766 adopted by the City
Council of the City of Lynwood, and that same was passed
on the date and by the vote therein stated.
Dated this 2nd day of ~ December , 1964
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