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2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 F. Government Code, Section 65858 authorizes the City to adopt an interim Urgency Ordinance to protect the public safety, health and welfare and to prohibit uses which may be in conflict with a contemplated General Plan or zoning proposal which the City is considering, studying or intends to study within a reasonable time. G. The purpose of this moratorium is to protect the public safety, health and welfare of the citizens of the City of Colton by prohibiting the approval of land use entitlement applications and other permits for land uses in the Regional Park Study Area that may adversely impact the planning efforts of the City's Planning Staff and Consultants in studying an proposing appropriate land uses in the Regional Park Study Area. As a result, the City Council wishes to adopt this temporary moratorium on the approval of land use applications and the issuance of building, occupancy and other permits until the City and its Consultants can analyze such uses and propose policies, standards and implementation measures to assure that future uses are compatible with contemplated land uses. H. The City Council finds that the approval of a moratorium is a tool to allow the City to effectively establish a plan for the Regional Park Study Area. It's intent is to restrict approval of land uses that would result in a current and immediate threat to the public safety, health, or welfare because consideration and approval of such uses may be inconsistent with proposed land use designations and contemplated general and specific plan policies now being studied for the Regional Park Study Area. The moratorium would protect and promote the planning process by, among other things, prohibiting the introduction of potentially nonconforming land uses that could defeat the City's later -adopted General Plan and zoning ordinance. SECTION 2. Moratorium. The City of Colton shall not issue or approve any General Plan amendment, zone change, building permit, occupancy permit, conditional use permit, variance, subdivision map or other land use entitlement or permit required to comply with the provisions of the City of Colton Zoning Ordinance for development of any use, building, or structure on any properties described in the attached Exhibit "A" ("Regional Park Study Area") during the time that this interim urgency ordinance is in effect, and continuing for the time set forth in Section 7 below. The prohibitions contained in this section shall not apply to (1) the issuance of building and other permits issued for existing lawful uses and buildings that do not result in expansion of the existing floor area of such uses or buildings in the Regional Park Study Area; and (2) the issuance of permits described in Colton Municipal Code Section 15.040.010, including building, electrical, plumbing, mechanical and grading permits, for buildings and uses that have received discretionary land use entitlement approvals on or before the effective date of this urgency ordinance. SECTION 3. Compliance with California Environmental Quality Act. The City Council finds that this Urgency Ordinance is not subject to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to Sections 15060(c)(2) (the activity will not result in a direct or reasonably foreseeable indirect physical change in the environment) and 15060(c)(3) (the activity is not a project as defined in Section 15378) of the CEQA Guidelines, California Code of Regulations, Title 14, Chapter 3, because it has no potential for resulting in physical change to the environment, directly or indirectly ; it prevents changes in the environment pending the completion of the contemplated General Plan and zoning code revisions and -2-