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1 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 URGENCY ORDINANCE NO. 0-16-07 AN URGENCY ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLTON IN ACCORDANCE WITH GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 65858 ENACTING FOR A PERIOD OF TWELVE (12) ADDITIONAL MONTHS A MORATORIUM ON THE APPROVAL OF LAND USE ENTITLEMENTS AND PERMIT APPLICATIONS WITHIN AN AREA NORTH OF I-10, SOUTH OF SAN BERNARDINO AVENUE, AND WEST OF HERMOSA AVENUE TO THE WESTERLY CITY LIMITS. THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF COLTON DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. Urgency Findings. In accordance with California Government Code, Section 65858 and in order to protect the public health, safety and welfare, the City Council of the City of Colton finds as follows: A. California Planning & Zoning Law requires each city to prepare and adopt a comprehensive, long-term general plan for the physical development of the City containing all of the mandatory elements required by law (California Government Code, Section 65300 et seq.). The City's General Plan is required to include, in part: "A land use element that designates the proposed general distribution and general location and extent of the uses of the land for housing, business, industry, open space including agriculture, natural resources, recreation, and enjoyment of scenic beauty, education, public buildings and grounds, solid and liquid waste disposal facilities, and other categories of public and private uses of land. The land use element shall include a statement of the standards of population density and building intensity recommended for the various districts and other territory covered by the plan... " (California Government Code, Section 65302(a).) B. In May 2004, the City Council directed the Planning Staff to undertake a comprehensive analysis and revision of the General Plan beginning with the Land Use Element. Staff and the City's General Plan Consultants, Hogle Ireland, have been working to gather information and prepare development scenarios for consideration by the Planning Commission and City Council. Hogle Ireland and 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. City staff has received zoning inquiries and application filings for certain land uses within the West Valley area that have intense and unusual development and operating features. If such land uses were approved, they could be incompatible with the 2624990\MMARTINEZ\39192.1