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Ild 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLTON DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The City Council of the City of Colton finds that the above recitals are true and correct. Section 2. Continuing from and after the date of this urgency ordinance, and pursuant to Government Code Section 65858, the City Council of the City of Colton hereby continues the suspension of the issuance or approval of any new application, permit, entitlement or development approval for development of any land or issuance of any approval authorizing the uses listed in Exhibit "A", effective upon the adoption of this extension to the Urgency Ordinance, and continuing for the time set forth at Section 9 below. Such suspension shall not apply to: (1) any application on file with the City of Colton as of the effective date of this ordinance, provided all application fees have been paid and all conditions necessary for the acceptance of an application as complete have been met; (2) any applications made necessary by conditions or other requirements placed by the final decision-making body of the City of Colton in its consideration of an application meeting Exception 1 in this paragraph; and (3) any conditional use permit, variance or site plan/design review permit or building permit approval previously granted but not vested in accordance with California law. The uses that are subject to this moratorium are more specifically defined in the attached Exhibit "B." Section 3. In adopting this urgency ordinance extending Urgency Ordinance No. 0-08-06, the City Council finds and determines that each of the recitals contained in this ordinance are true and correct, and that the adoption of this urgency ordinance is necessary to protect the public safety, health and welfare, as those terms are defined in Government Code Section 65858(a), in at least the following respects: A. Were the City Council or the Community Development Department to grant discretionary land use approvals or permits, or the like, relating to night clubs, convention centers and other land uses described in Exhibit "A" during the pendency of the studies necessary to revise the City's zoning ordinance, such approvals could undermine the orderly development of property within the City, resulting in a reduction of the quality, caliber and aesthetics of the development of such property; and B. Were the City Council or the Community Development Department to grant discretionary land use approvals or permits, or the like, relating to night clubs, convention centers and other land uses described in Exhibit "A" during the pendency of the studies necessary to revise the City's zoning ordinance, such approvals could undermine the orderly development of property within the City, resulting in the inability of the City to assure that property is developed to its highest and best use as allowed by law; and C. Were the City Council or the Community Development Department to grant discretionary land use approvals or permits, or the like, relating to night clubs, convention centers and other land uses described in Exhibit "A" during the pendency of the studies necessary to revise the City's zoning ordinance, such approvals could authorize development which is in violation of State laws. Section 4. The City Council finds that this extension to the Urgency Ordinance is necessary to protect the public health, safety and welfare by providing the City with a continuing 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 -2-