HomeMy WebLinkAbout83-08 Regarding Billboards and Outdoor Advertising StructuresORDINANCE NO. 83-8
AN INTERIM ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF COSTA MESA, CALFORNIA, ESTABLISHING
A MORATORIUM ON THE PROCESSING AND ISSUANCE OF
BUILDING PERMITS AND ZONE EXCEPTION PERMITS FOR
BILLBOARDS OR OUTDOOR ADVERTISING STRUCTURES,
DECLARING SAID ORDINANCE TO BE AN URGENCY
ORDINANCE AND SETTING FORTH THE REASONS THEREFOR.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The City Council of the City of Costa Mesa finds and declares
that there is a current and immediate threat to the public health, safety, and
general welfare and that the approval of additional building permits, Zone
Exception Permits, or any other applicable entitlements for billboards or outdoor
advertising structures would endanger the public health, safety, and welfare.
Accordingly, the following urgency measure is adopted.
SECTION 2. The City Staff is hereby directed not to process nor issue any
permits of any kind for billboards or outdoor advertising structures for the
duration of this Ordinance, provided that any application for City action that
has been filed with the City, or permit issued by the City before March 16, 1983,
shall not be denied, enjoined, or otherwise prevented from being pursued or
completed solely by reason of the adoption of this Ordinance. Such projects may
be processed or completed if otherwise approved by the City.
SECTION 3. The City Council finds and declares that the protection of the
public health, safety, and general welfare requires that this Ordinance be adopted
as an urgency measure, pursuant to Section 65858, California Government Code.
The reasons in support of the necessity of an urgency measure are as follows:
The City Council adopted Ordinance 75-30 to promote commerce and to encourage
redevelopment of blighted areas, to improve traffic safety, to protect the value
of public and private property investments within the City to create a more
desirable environment for the citizens and visitors of the City of Costa Mesa and
to implement the General Plan of the City;
The decision of the United States Supreme Court in the case of Metromedia,
Inc., vs. City of San Diego casts doubt on the constitutional validity of Ordinance
75-30;
That the possible invalidation of Ordinance 75-30 creates a current and
immediate threat to the public health, safety, and welfare and that the construc-
tion of unregulated billboards and outdoor advertising structures would endanger
the public health, safety, and welfare;
That additional time is required to draft and adopt a new ordinance to
control, regulate, and, if necessary, abate billboards or outdoor advertising
structures within the ccmmunity in order to protect the public health, safety,
and welfare.
SECTION 4. This Ordinance shall take effect and be in full force immedi-
ately from and after its passage, and prior to the expiration of fifteen (15)
days frau the passage thereof, shall be published once in the Orange Coast Daily
Pilot, a newspaper of general circulation, printed and published in the City of
Costa Mesa, together with the names of the members of the City Council voting
for and against same. The provisions of this Ordinance shall be effective for a
period of forty-five (45) days after adoption.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 21st day of March, 1983. �.
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of the City of Costa Mesa
ATTEST:
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ity Clerk of the City of Costa Me
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) ss.
CITY OF COSTA MESA )
I, EILEEN P. PHINNEY, City Clerk and ex -officio Clerk of the City Council
of the City of Costa Mesa, hereby certify that the above and foregoing Ordinance
No. 83-8 was introduced and considered section by section at a regular meeting
of said City Council held on the 21st day of March, 1983, and thereafter passed
and adopted as a whole at a regular meeting of said Council held on the 21st day
of March, 1983, by the following roll call vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS:
NOES: OOUNCILMEMBERS:
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS:
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereby set my hand and affixed the Seal of
the City of Costa Mesa this 22nd day of March, 1983.
9CitV Clerk and ex -officio Clerk o the
City Council of the City of Cost esa