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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 City staff are at the stage where they are analyzing data for the development of recommendations for proposed development scenarios and land uses. These development scenarios include making recommendations about proposed land uses and building intensities for proposed land use designations. C. At the same time, City staff continues to receive zoning inquiries and application filings for certain land uses that have intense and unusual development and operating features that, if approved, would be incompatible with the contemplated General Plan revisions, including changes in land use designations and General Plan goals and policies that attempt to mitigate the impacts of intense land uses on surrounding properties. A list of these more intense land uses is attached hereto as Exhibit "A" to this Urgency Ordinance and is incorporated herein by this reference. D. California Government Code, Section 65858 authorizes the City to adopt an interim Urgency Ordinance prohibiting any 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. E. The City Council is concerned that continued acceptance of entitlement applications for the land uses shown on Exhibit "A" will adversely impact the short-term planning efforts of the City's Planning Staff and Consultants to study existing and proposed land uses in the City. As a result, the City Council wishes to adopt a temporary moratorium on the acceptance of land use applications and the issuance of building permits for certain land uses until the City and its Consultants can analyze appropriate areas of the City where such uses may locate and propose policies to standards to assure that such uses are not incompatible with other contemplated land uses. F. The City Council further realizes that the continued approval of the development of night clubs, convention centers and other land uses described in Exhibit "A" would have long-term specific, adverse impacts upon the public health, safety and welfare of its citizens. G. Consequently, the City Council finds that this Urgency Ordinance is necessary to protect the public health, safety and welfare by providing the City with a mechanism to suspend the acceptance and approval of certain permits and entitlements that establish land uses that may be inconsistent and in conflict with the current general plan revision effort. The City Council further finds that the approval of additional subdivisions, building permits, or other entitlements 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 ORANGF.,M MAKI IN EZ\23683,3 -2-