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ORDINANCE NO. 2266
AN URGENCY ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF AZUSA IMPOSING A MORATORIUM PRO-
HIBITING ISSUANCE OF LAND USE ENTITLEMENTS
FOR CERTAIN DEFINED PERMANENT DANCE HALLS
PERMITTING PATRONS UNDER THE AGE OF EIGHTEEN
IN ALL ZONES OF THE CITY
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF AZUSA DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The City Council of the City of Azusa has
directed the City Administrator/Chief of Police and Director of
Planning and Community Development to study the adequacy of the
zoning ordinance with respect to permanent dance halls permitting
persons under the age of 18 (eighteen) to attend. The study is
generated by citizen concerns and concerns of the City Council
with regard to these types of "teen clubs" and the effect they
will have upon the surrounding land uses. The study is review-
ing the provisions of the Azusa Municipal Code relating to these
uses and addressing concerns related to parking facilities,
setback requirements from the street and surrounding structures,
privacy requirements for neighboring structures, interior and
exterior security measures, fire safety measures, noise problems,
vibration problems, and compatability of such use with surrounding
commercial and industrial uses. The types of clubs under study
present unique problems not otherwise associated with dance halls
because of the ages of the patrons, the intensity of use of such
clubs, the substantial problems experienced by surrounding land
uses of such dance halls in the cities of Los Angeles, Pasadena,
and Ontario which were not present with other types of dance halls,
and the fact that by not serving alcoholic beverages such dance
halls do not come under the strict regulation and scrutiny of
the Alcoholic Beverage and Control Commission. City Council
action will be required to evaluate the result of this study
of the problem and to implement any recommendations developed
therefrom.
SECTION 2 . Pending the conclusion of the study and
Council action thereon, no land use entitlement permit (including
building permit), approval , zone clearance, or other land use
authorization shall be issued, nor shall applications therefor
be accepted, by the City of Azusa or its officers, agents or
employees, relating to public dance halls allowing patrons under
the age of eighteen (18) years and which prohibit the service
of alcoholic beverages. Nothing in this ordinance shall be con-
strued to prohibit a teen-age dance otherwise permitted by the
provisions of Chapter 8. 12 of the Azusa Municipal Code.
SECTION 3 . Pursuant to Government Code Sections 36934,
36937 and 65858, the City Council of the City of Azusa hereby
declares this ordinance to be an urgency ordinance requiring the
immediate enactment thereof because the same is necessary for
the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, safety
and general welfare of the City and its citizens and, accordingly,
the provisions of this ordinance shall become effective at once
as an urgency ordinance. The facts consituting such urgency
are set forth in Section 1 of this ordinance which are hereby
found and determined to exist. In addition thereto, the
City Council finds and determines that the absence of this
ordinance would create a serious threat to the orderly and
effective implementation of any zoning or land use plan which
may be adopted by the Council as a result of the studies and
problems addressed in Section 1 in that current development
at this time involving the prohibited uses would perpetuate
the zoning and land use problems which are being studied and
which Council action thereon would seek to remedy.
SECTION 4. If any section, subsection, sentence,
clause, phrase or word of this ordinance is for any reason held
to be invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, such decision
shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this
ordinance. The City Council of the City of Azusa hereby declares
that it would have passed and adopted this ordinance and each
and all provisions thereof, irrespective of the fact that any
one or more of said provisions may be declared invalid.
SECTION 5 . This ordinance shall be effective for
forty-five days from enactment but Council shall have the right
to extend the moratorium as provided by Government Code Section 65858 .
SECTION 6. This ordinance shall be effective immediately
upon its adoption.
SECTION 7 . The City Clerk shall certify to the adoption
of this ordinance as an urgency ordinance and shall cause the same
to be published as required by law.
PASSED AND APPROVED this 6th day of May, 1985.
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MAYOR
STATE OF CALIFORNIA
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) ss .
CITY OF AZUSA
I, ADOLPH SOLIS, City Clerk of the City of Azusa, do
hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 2266 was duly
adopted and passed as an urgency ordinance at a regular meeting
of the City Council on the 6th day of May, 1985, by the
following vote, to wit:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS: CRUZ, CAMARENA, LATTA, MOSES
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS: NONE
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: COOK
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