TO:
Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council
THROUGH:
Mark Danaj, City Manager
FROM:
Marisa Lundstedt, Community Development Director
Quinn Barrow, City Attorney
SUBJECT:Title
Conduct Public Hearing to Consider a One-year Extension of the Interim Zoning Ordinance (IZO) Prohibiting the Conversion of Any Commercial Use to a Different Commercial Use Classification in the Downtown Area of the City (Community Development Director Lundstedt).
CONDUCT PUBLIC HEARING AND ADOPT ORD-U 15-0017 EXTENDING THE IZO FOR ONE YEAR
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Recommended Action
RECOMMENDATION:
Staff recommends that the City Council conduct the public hearing and adopt Ordinance No. ORD-U 15-0017 approving a one-year extension of the Interim Zoning Ordinance (IZO) prohibiting the conversion of any commercial use to a different commercial use classification in the Downtown area of the City. (Attachment 1) The IZO expires on July 15, 2015 and this action would extend the IZO for one year. This will maintain the status quo on uses in the Downtown.
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FISCAL IMPLICATIONS:
No impact.
BACKGROUND:
On July 15, 2014, the City Council adopted a 45-day Interim Zoning Ordinance (IZO) ORD U 14-0011 prohibiting the conversion of any commercial use to a different commercial use classification in the downtown area of the City. On August 19, 2014, the City Council adopted IZO ORD U 14-0016 (Attachment 2), extending the IZO for an additional 10 months and 15 days. The current IZO is set to expire on July 15, 2015. On June 16, 2015 the City Council issued a written report pursuant to Government Code Section 65858, required at least ten days before the expiration of an interim ordinance, describing the measures taken to alleviate the condition which led to the adoption of the IZO. At that meeting the City Council also directed staff to schedule a public hearing for the tonight's meeting to consider an extension of t...
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