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ORDINANCE NO. 2764
AN INTERIM URGENCY ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF
HUNTINGTON BEACH ON THE ISSUANCE OF BUILDING
PERMITS FOR THE CONSTRUCTION OF SINGLE-UNIT
DWELLINGS IN AREAS COMPRISING THE OLDTOWN,
TOWNLOT AND DOWNTOWN SPECIFIC PLANS
WHEREAS, the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach
desires to establish a forty-five (45) day moratorium on the
issuance of building permits for new construction of single-unit
dwellings in the areas comprising the Oldtown, Townlot and
Downtown Specific Plans; and
At the present time there are inadequate uniform regula-
tions and guidelines governing the development of real property
located in the Oldtown, Townlot and Downtown Specific Plan
areas ; and
The Planning Division of the Development Services
Department is presently formulating such regulations and guide-
lines and will present ordinances for consideration of the
Planning Commission within such interim moratorium period,
NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the City of Huntington
Beach does ordain as follows:
SECTION 1 . A forty-five (45) day moratorium upon the is-
suance of building permits for new construction of single-unit
dwellings in the Oldtown, Townlot and Downtown Specific Plan
areas is hereby established.
SECTION 2. The City Council finds that there is a current
and immediate threat to the public health, safety and welfare,
and that the approval of buildings permits for new construction
of single-unit dwellings, or any other applicable entitlement
1.
5 votes
for such use which is required in order to comply with the
Huntington Beach Ordinance Code and its provisions, would
result in a threat to public health, safety, or welfare in that
the Planning Division of the Development Services Department is
presently formulating comprehensive, uniform regulations and
guidelines which will apply to real property located in the
Oldtown, Townlot and Downtown Specific Plan areas. The facts
constituting the urgency are these:
(a) A serious problem exists with the illegal conversion
to multiple-unit dwellings of buildings originally approved as
single-unit dwellings.
(b) The parking provisions presently in the Huntington
Beach Ordinance Code are deficient.
(c) An increase in population density exceeds that allowed
by current provisions of the Huntington Beach Ordinance Code.
(d) A proposed set of comprehensive, uniform regulations
and guidelines for development and construction of single-unit
dwellings in the Oldtown, Townlot and Downtown Specific Plan
areas is being prepared for transmittal to the City Council .
The City Council recognizes that it will be necessary for the
Planning Commission to study, hold hearings and consider the
adoption of such uniform regulations and guidelines prior to
such transmittal. A comprehensive, uniform set of regulations
and guidelines for the areas included within the Oldtown,
Townlot and Downtown Specific Plans cannot be made quickly and
it will take a reasonable amount of time to work out the de-
tails of such regulations and guidelines. It would be destruc-
tive of the proposed regulations and guidelines if during the
period they are being considered and studied and are the sub-
ject of public hearings, parties seeking to evade the operation
thereof in the form in which they may be adopted should be
2.
permitted to enter upon a course of construction which might
progress so far as to defeat the whole or in part the ultimate
objective of such regulations and guidelines. Further, it is
probable that the uses contemplated on real property in the
Oldtown, Townlot and Downtown Specific Plan areas may not con-
form to the regulations and guidelines now being formulated,
thereby destroying the usefulness of such regulations and
guidelines.
SECTION 3 . This ordinance shall take effect immediately
and in accordance with Government Code § 65858, shall be of no
further force and effect forty-five (45) days from the date of
its adoption. The City Clerk shall certify to the passage of
this ordinance and shall cause same to be published within
fifteen days of its adoption in a newspaper of general
circulation. .
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of
adurnHuntington Beach at a / oar g
'�,ilar meeting
thereof held on the 22nd
day of April , 1985 .
May
ATTEST: APPROVED AS TO FORM: -
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City Clerk City Attorney
REVIEWED AND APPROVED: INITIATED AND APPROVED:
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City Administrator erector of Deve opment
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Emergency Ord. No. 2764
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF ORANGE } ss.
CITY OF HUNTINGTON BEACH )
I, ALICIA M. WENTWORTH, the duly elected,. qualified and acting
City Clerk of the City of Huntington Beach and ex-officio Clerk of the
City Council of the said City, do hereby certify that the foregoing
ordinance was read to the City Council of the City of Huntington Beach
at a regular/mn eeJng thereof held on the 22nd day of April
19 85 , and was passed and adopted by at least five
affirmative votes of said City Council.
AYES: Councilmen:
MacAllister, Mandic, Bailey, Finley, Green
NOES: Councilmen:
None
ABSENT: Councilmen:
Kelly
ABSTAIN: Thomas
City Clerk and ex-officio Clerk
of the City Council of the City
of Huntington Beach, California
t,lYitxs IL Wentwwth CITY CLERK of the City Of
Meson Beach and sx•officio Clark of the City
CQMW�I. sa Hereby certify that a synopsis of this
*gd*&!ce .°. -een put),ished in the Huntington
$ Cki it1:�;. eiC�6nt on
iith the City Charter ofsaid City.
ALICIA M. WENTWORT
city Cleat
fp I)$ ty city Clerk