HomeMy WebLinkAbout00-19 Extending Interim Ordinance 00-10ORDINANCE NO. 00-19
AN URGENCY ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL
OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA, CALIFORNIA,
EXTENDING INTERIM ORDINANCE NO. 00-10 IMPOSING
A MORATORIUM ON SMALL -LOT, RESIDENTIAL
DEVELOPMENTS.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COSTA MESA DOES HEREBY ORDAIN
AS FOLLOWS:
Section 1. Findings.
The City Council of the City of Costa Mesa finds and declares that
Ordinance No. 00-10 was adopted on June 5, 2000, as an urgency interim
ordinance to allow sufficient time for the City to conduct a study to evaluate
possible amendments to residential development standards and the General Plan;
that the interim ordinance prohibited the discretionary approval of any projects
consisting of more than two detached.,,. single-family Tesid.ential.dwellings; that the
interim ordinance was initially extended from July 21, 2000, to and including
December 6, 2000, pursuant to Government Code Section 65858(a); that since
the adoption of the interim ordinance, and the initial extension, the City staff has
worked diligently to complete the study, but that additional time is still needed for
this purpose; that at least 10 days before the initial extension of the interim
ordinance expires, a written report pursuant to Government Code Section
65858(d) was issued describing the measures taken to alleviate conditions leading
to the adoption of the interim ordinance; and that there continues to be a current
and immediate threat to the public health, safety, or welfare, and that approval of
any of the prohibited projects would result in that threat to the public health,
safety, and welfare.
Section 2. Extension.
Interim Ordinance No. 00-10 is hereby extended for an additional eighteen
(18) months from December 7, 2000, to and including June 4, 2002, pursuant to
Government Code Section 65858(a).
Section 3. Effective Date and Publication.
This Ordinance shall take effect and be in full force and effect immediately
from and after its passage and, before the expiration of fifteen (15) days after its
passage, shall be published once in a newspaper of general circulation, printed and
published in the City of Costa Mesa.
PASSED AND ADOPTED this 4th day of December, 2000.
ATTEST:
Deputy Cit Clerk and ex -officio Clerk of
the City CoLmcil of the City of Costa Mesa
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I, MARY T. ELLIOTT, Deputy 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. 00-19 was introduced and considered section by section at a
regular meeting of said City Council held on the 4th day of December, 2000, and
thereafter passed and adopted as a whole at a regular meeting of said City Council
held on the 4th day of December, 2000, by the following roll call vote:
AYES: Cowan, Dixon, Robinson, Steel
NOES: Monahan
ABSENT: None
IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the Seal
of the City of Costa Mesa this 5th day of December, 2000.
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Deputy Cit Clerk and ex -officio Clerk of
the City Co cil of the City of Costa Mesa
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