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1 <br />2' <br />3 <br />4 <br />5 <br />6 <br />7 <br />a <br />10 <br />11 <br />12 <br />13 <br />14 <br />15 <br />16 <br />17 <br />18 <br />19 <br />20 <br />21 <br />22 <br />23 <br />24 <br />25 <br />26 <br />27 <br />28 <br />INTERIM URGENCY ORDINANCE NO. 0-197 <br />AN INTERIM URGENCY ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF <br />COLTON ESTABLISHING A MORATORIUM ON <br />PROCESSING OF APPLICATIONS FOR THE <br />CONSTRUCTION OF MONOPOLES NOT ALREADY <br />APPROVED WITHIN THE CITY <br />WHEREAS, the City Council has recently received information from the public <br />I indicating serious concern about the creation of visual blight within the City by the proliferation <br />of "monopoles," which are pole devices usually standing more than 35 feet in height constructed <br />to allow cellular telephone transmission and other airwave transmission and which are currently <br />not regulated in the City; and <br />WHEREAS, the Planning Commission has in the past approved the granting of <br />conditional use permits and variances allowing monopoles despite the fact that such monopoles <br />are not specifically addressed within the City's zoning ordinance; and <br />WHEREAS, residents of the community and of surrounding cities have voiced strong <br />opposition to the further proliferation of such monopoles within the City of Colton and certain <br />uniform regulations for the approval of such devices have been developed in other communities <br />which the City would like to review and consider implementing in Colton; and <br />WHEREAS, it is imperative that the City review its zoning ordinance to assure that <br />further construction of monopoles within the City furthers the best interests of the community <br />and furthers the health, safety and welfare interests of the community; and <br />WHEREAS, Government Code Section 65858 authorizes the City Council to adopt as <br />an urgency measure an interim ordinance prohibiting the processing of any applications for <br />conditional use permits or variances to construct monopoles while the City considers <br />