HomeMy WebLinkAbout83-19 Establishing a Moratorium on Processing and Issuance of Zone Exception PermitsORDINANCE NO. 83-19
AN INTERIM ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
COSTA MESA, CALFORNIA, ESTABLISHING A MORATORIUM ON THE
PROCESSING AND ISSUANCE OF ZONE EXCEPTION PERMITS FOR
THE CONVERSION OF EXISTING APARTMENTS TO CONDOMINIUMS,
EXCEPT WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF THE DOWNTOWN REDEVELOP-
MENT PROTECT AREA NO. 1, 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 FOL -
SECTION 1. The City Council of the City of Costa Mesa finds and de-
clares that there is a current and immediate threat to the public health, safety,
and general welfare and that the approval of additional Zone Exception Permits,
or other applicable entitlements for the conversion of existing apartments to
condominiums, except within the boundaries of the Downtown Redevelopment Project
Area No. 1, 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 the conversion of existing apartments to condaniniums,
except in the Downtown Redevelopment Project Area No. 1, 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 July 18, 1983, shall not be denied,
enjoined, or otherwise prevented frau being pursued or canpleted 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 Goverment
Code.
follows:
The reasons in support of the necessity of an urgency measure are as
The City Council adopted Ordinance 77-41 to regulate the development of
new condominiums and the conversion of existing apartments to condominiums;
The City Council has approved amendments to Ordinance 77-41 to provide
increased opportunities to convert existing apartments to condominiums under cer-
tain prescribed conditions;
The approval of condominium conversions under certain prescribed con-
ditions can fulfill certain goals established for the long-term improvement of
the Downtown Redevelopment Project Area No. 1;
That additional time is required to test and to assess the implications
of recent amendments to Ordinance 77-41 in the Downtown Redevelopment Project Area
No. 1 prior to the application of these amendments throughout the entire co m-
munity;
This emergency/urgency ordinance will assist the Council in monitoring
the condominium conversion process, and the effectiveness of the Ordinance 77-41
regulating condominium conversion of existing apartments in the Downtown Project
Area No. 1, and the effects of the conversion process on the public health, safety
and welfare.
This emergency/urgency ordinance which establishes a moratorium on con-
dominium conversions in all areas of the City of Costa Mesa, except the Downtown
Project Area No. 1, will enable the Council to monitor that the needs of displaced
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tenants, particularly senior citizens, low -moderate inane families, and families
with school age children, are adequately considered in conversion process, and
this ordinance will enable the Council to monitor and ensure that conversions con-
form to adopted General Plan policies.
That the conversion of existing apartments to condaniniums throughout
the entire community, except in the Downtown Redevelopment Project Area No. 1,
would endanger the public health, safety, and welfare.
SECTION 4. This Ordinance shall take effect and be in full force in -
mediately frau and after its passage, and prior to the expiration of fifteen (15)
days from 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.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this /94ay of 6dJJj,1 , 1983.
ATTEST:
City Clerk, City of Costa Mesa
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Mayor of the Costa Mesa City Council
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE )
CITY OF OOSTA MESA )
ss.
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. 83-19 was introduced and considered section by section at a regular
meeting of said City Council held on theday of )�+—'
1983, and
thereafter passed and adopted as a whole at a regular ti of said Council
held on thejg�jday of 1983, by the following roll call vote:
AYES: COUNCILMEMBERS:
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS:
ABSENT: GOUNCILMEMBERS:
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IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereby set my hand and affixed the Seal of
the City of Costa Mesa this IQ day of , 1983.
Ci Clerk and ex -off icio Clerk o the
City Council of the City of Cos the
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