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10 ORDINANCE NO. 1918 N.C.S.
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12 Introduced by Councilmember Seconded by Councilmember
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14 Barlas Nelson
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17 AN INTERIM ORDINANCE OF THE PETALUMA MUNICIPAL CODE
18 PROHIBITING THE ESTABLISHMENT OF CARDROOMS WITHIN
19 THE CITY LIMITS
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22 BE IT ORDAINED BY THE COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF PETALUMA AS
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25 Section 1. Chapter 6.20 of the Petaluma Municipal Code and the Zoning Ordinance
26 provide regulations for the operation of cardrooms within the City of Petaluma.
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28 Section 2. The Zoning Ordinance allows cardrooms, a type of commercial recreation, to be
29 established in any of three zoning districts upon the approval of a Conditional Use Permit.
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31 Section 3. The City Council finds that the provisions of Chapter 6.20 of the Petaluma
32 Municipal Code and the findings and considerations of a Conditional Use Permit
33 established in Section 21-300 of the Zoning Ordinance insufficiently address the special
34 nature of cardroom operations.
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36 Section 4. The City Council finds that cardrooms present a significant demand for public
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39 Section 5. The City Council finds that the establishment of additional cardroom operations
40 within the City will significantly affect the ability of the Police Department to provide
41 service to other commercial uses as well as to residential areas of the City.
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43 Section 6. The City Council finds that due to the potential degradation of the police level
44 of service to the community presented by the establishment of additional cardrooms, an
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1 imminent danger to the public health, safety and welfare exists. This Ordinance is declared
2 to be an Urgency Ordinance enacted for the preservation of the public health, safety or
3 welfare and shall go into effect immediately upon its adoption.
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5 Section 7. The City Council finds that specific regulations and standards should be
6 established and adopted in the Zoning Ordinance to regulate cardroom operations and
7 that time is needed to review, establish, and adopt said regulations and standards and that
8 approval of any cardrooms could well result in cardrooms that were .inconsistent with
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11 Section 8. Government Code Section 65858 allows a legislative body to adopt as an
12 urgency measure an Interim Ordinance prohibiting any use which may conflict with
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15 Section 9. Notwithstanding any other provisions of the Petaluma Municipal Code or any
16 other Ordinance or regulations of the City of Petaluma to the contrary, no application for
17 cardrooms shall be accepted, processed, approved or granted while this Ordinance is in
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20 Section 10. With regard to any application for cardrooms under review by the City on the
21 date of the adoption of this Ordinance, no further processing shall occur.
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23 Section 11. This Interim Ordinance shall in no way affect any cardroom in use or which has
24 received approval of a Conditional Use Permit prior to the date of the adoption of this
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28 IF ANY SECTION, subsection, .sentence, clause or phrase or word of this Ordinance is for
29 any reason held to be unconstitutional by a court of competent jurisdiction, such decision
30 shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance. The City Council
31 of the City of Petaluma hereby declares that it would have passed and adopted this
32 Ordinance and each and all provisions thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more
33 of said provisions be declared unconstitutional.
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INTRODUCED and ordered Posted/Published this 16th day of FPh,.~l,ary ,
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ADOPTED this 16th day of February , 19 93 , by the following vote:
AYES: Nelson, Barlas, Read, Shea, Hamilton, Mayor Hilligoss
NOES: None
ABSENT: Vice Mayor Sobel
ABSTAIN:
ATTEST:
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