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ORDINANCE NO. 83-29
AN INTERIM ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF COSTA MESA, CALFORNIA, EXTENDING
THE EFFECT OF ORDINANCE 83-19 CONCERNING A
MORATORIUM ON THE PROCESSING AND ISSUANCE OF
ZONE EXCEPTION PERMITS FOR THE CONVERSION OF
EXISTING APARZMENTS TO CONDOMINIUMS, EXCEPT
WITHIN THE BOUNDARIES OF THE DOWNTOVV REDE-
VELOPAIENT PROTECT AREA NO. 1, DECLARING SAID
ORDINANCE TO BE AN URGENCY ORDINANCE AND SET-
TING FORTH THE REASONS THEREFOR.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLr
SECTION 1. The City Council of the City of Costa Mesa finds and de-
clares that Ordinance 83-19 was adopted as an urgency interim ordinance to allow
the City to test and assess, within the Downtown Redevelopment Area, the implica-
tions of recent ordinance amendments which provided increased opportunities to
convert existing apartments to condominiums; that a condominium conversion in the
Downtown Redevelopment Area has been approved, but not completed, since the enact-
ment of Ordinance 83-19; and that additional time is needed to monitor the amended
condominium conversion process and its effects on 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 condominiums,
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 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.
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;
Additional time beyond a 45 -day moratorium established by Ordinance
83-19 is required to test and to assess the implications of recent amendments to
Ordinance 77-41 in the Downtown Redevelopmnt Project Area No. 1 prior to the
application of these amendments throughout the entire community;
This emergency/urgency ordinance will assist the Council in mnitoring
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 determine whether the needs of
displaced tenants, particularly senior citizens, low -moderate income families,
arra families with school age children, are adequately considered in conversion
process, and this ordinance will enable the Council to monitor and ensure that
conversions conform to adopted General Plan policies; and
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The conversion of existing apartments to condominiums 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 im-
mediately from 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 5th day of cember, 1983.
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Mayor of the Co4ta Mesa City Council
ATTEST:
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City Clerk, City of CostVe sa
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. 83-29 was introduced and considered section by s coon a. a regular
meeting of said City Council held on the day of ,
1983, and thereafter pass4 and adopted a who e at a regular meeting of said
Council held on the day of 1983, by the following
roll call vote:
AYES: ODIJNCIIMEMBERS:
NOES: COUNCILMEMBERS:��--
ABSENT: COUNCILMEMBERS: '?' -
IN WI`T'NESS. WHEREOF, I have hereby set my h7g and a ixed the Seal of
the City of, "Costa Mesa -this �-f� day of 1983.
y Clerk and ex -officio Clerk o he
City Council of the City of Cost esa
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