Ordinance No. 796ORDINANCE NO. 796
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
CYPRESS AMENDING ORDINANCE NO. 773 ENACTING A ZONING
MORATORIUM ON HOTELS /MOTELS IN THE CH- 10,000
COMMERCIAL HEAVY ZONE BY EXTENDING THE TERM FOR A
PERIOD OF ONE YEAR
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF CYPRESS HEREBY DOES ORDAIN
AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. The term of Ordinance No. 773 shall be extended
for a period of one year, with the extended ten -month and
fifteen -day term expiring upon adoption of this Ordinance,
pursuant to the provisions of Government Code Section 65858.
SECTION 2. The extension of this Ordinance is adopted as an
urgency measure to prohibit any uses in the CH- 10,000 Zone which
may be in conflict with a contemplated general plan, specific
plan or zoning proposal concerning hotel /motel uses which the
legislative body is considering or studying or intends to study
within the extended term of this Ordinance. This Ordinance shall
be of no further force and effect one year after the date of its
adoption. Any conditional use permits for hotel /motel uses
within the CH- 10,000 Zone granted to date by the City Council are
hereby exempt from the provisions of this Ordinance.
SECTION 3. In adopting the extension of this Ordinance as
an urgency measure, the City Council does hereby make the
following findings of fact:
a. That hotel /motel rooms in the CH- 10,000 Zone
are often occupied as long -term residences and not on a
transient, temporary basis as defined in Section 8 of
the Zoning Ordinance of the City of Cypress;
b. That there is a lack of overnight visitors in
the area seeking transient accommodations and the
construction of additional hotels /motels reduces the
demand for overnight accommodations in existing
hotels /motels causing these rooms to be rented as long-
term residences;
c. That hotel /motel rooms in the CH- 10,000 Zone
which are occupied as long -term residences often do not
contain adequate facilities for the cooking and
preparing of meals;
d. That overcrowded conditions may exist in the
rooms of long -term occupants of hotel /motel rooms;
e. That hotels /motels in the CH- 10,000 Zone
occupied by families as long -term residences lack
adequate open space for recreational purposes
threatening the safety of children who play in the
parking lots and on the sidewalk adjacent to Lincoln
Avenue, a major arterial street.
SECTION 4. The City Council further finds that the
following measures have been taken to alleviate the condition
which led to the adoption of Ordinance No. 773:
a. At the City Council meetings of April 28, 1986
and June 9, 1986, the Council received reports from
staff on preliminary research to identify the issues
relating to hotels /motels in the CH- 10,000 Zone.
b. The City Council has combined the study of
hotel /motel development in the CH- 10,000 Zone with a
study of land use and development of properties along
the Lincoln Avenue Corridor.
c. The City ot Cypress sponsored a series of four
public meetings to discuss issues affecting the Lincoln
Avenue Corridor, including the appropriateness of
residential uses, and to develop goals for the
maintenance of existing and future development along
the Corridor.
d. Based upon the study of land use and
development ot properties along the Lincoln Avenue
Corridor, and upon the goals developed at the public
meetings, additional zoning classifications,
regulations and amendments to City Code will be
developed.
SECTION 5. Based upon these findings of fact, the City
Council has concluded that there is a current and immediate
threat to the public health, safety, or welfare; that approval of
additional subdivisions, use permits, variances, building permits
or any other applicable entitlements tor use which is required in
order to comply with a zoning ordinance would result in a threat
to public health, safety, or welfare; and that an additional
reasonable time is needed for the City to further study
appropriate zoning classifications and regulations for
hotel /motel uses.
PASSED AND ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City Council
of the City of Cypress on the 28th day of March 1988.
MYO'��F THE CITY OF CYPRESS
ATTEST:
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CIT CLARK O "THE ITY OF CYPRESS
STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
COUNTY OF ORANGE ) SS
I, DARRELL ESSEX, City Clerk ot the City of Cypress, DO
HEREBY CERTIFY that the foregoing Ordinance was duly adopted at a
regular meeting ot the said City Council held on the 28th day of
March 1988, by the following roll call vote:
AYES: 4 COUNCIL MEMBERS: Davis, Kanel, Mullen and Arnold
NOES: 0 COUNCIL MEMBERS: None
ABSENT: 1 COUNCIL MEMBERS: Coronado
CITY CLERK OF THE C-fTY OF CYPRESS