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ORDINANCE N0, 1240
URGENCY INTERIM ORDINANCE IMPOSING A MORATORIUM ON
BUSINESSES SELLING FOOD, DRUGS OR SUNDRIES IN THE
C-1 and C-2 DISTRICTS
The CITY COUNCIL of the CITY OF BURLIfJGAME does hereby ORDAIN as
Section 1. Moratorium upon rocer'V and drug establishments in
C-1 and C-2 Districts.
Notwithstanding any other provision of the Burlingame Municipal
Code, no
application
for special
permit shall be filed, no
building or other
permit
shall
be issued for, nor
shall any construction be
commenced upon, any
grocery
store,
drug store or similar
business for the sale
of packaged and
prepared
food,
drugs and sundries
at retail in the C-1 and
C-2 Zoning Districts
Section 2. Urgency. It is hereby declared that this ordinance is
'an ordinance for the immediate preservation of the public peace, safety, health
and welfare, and is an emergency measure as provided by law, and shall take
effect upon its adoption.
The facts constituting such urgency are as follows: There
currently exists a number of markets and drugstores in the C-1 and C-2 zones
f the City,
many
of which are
located in
areas
of Severe parking
urgency zoning
and
traffic
impacts.
Such businesses
are
recognized
as high
generators of
vehicle
C-2 Zones and
traffic
and an increase in their numbers, even meeting parking requirements, could
seriously impact already heavy traffic loads in commercial areas. The Planning
Commission of the City of Burlingame is therefore directed by this ordinance
to
pursue a
study
of
the
number, necessity
urgency zoning
and standards
for a
review
of such
businesses
automatically
in the
C-1
and
C-2 Zones and
to
report to this
Council
upon
its
determination
the
Section
3. Duration. This ordinance
is intended to be
an interim
urgency zoning
ordinance.
Unless this ordinance is
extended as provided
by
law it shall
automatically
cease to have force and
effect without specific
repeal when
either (1)
the City Council shall enact
new regulations,
publish
same, and the same shall become effective; (2) the City Council shall
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formally consider new regulations and shall reject the same or shall refuse to
enact them into law; or (3) after the expiration of six months from the date of
adotpion of this ordinance, whichever comes first.
Section 4. Publication. This ordinance shall be published as
required by law.
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Mayor
I, EVELYN H. HILL, City Clerk of the City of Burlingame, do
hereby certify that the foregoing Urgency Ordinance was introduced and adopted
at a regular meeting of the City Council held on the 6th day of December ,
19829 by the following vote:
AYES: COUPICILMEN
NOES: COUNCILMEN
ABSENT: COUNCILMEN
AMSTRUP, BARYON, CROSBY, MANGINI
MARTIN
NONE
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City Clerk
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