Ordinance No. 694 - Karaoke/KTV StudiosORDINANCE NO. 694
AN URGENCY ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF
THE CITY OF ROSEMEAD IMPOSING A 45-DAY
MORATORIUM ON THE ISSUANCE OF NEW
ENTERTAINMENT LICENSES FOR THE PURPOSE OF
KARAOKE/KTV STUDIOS AND DIRECTING THE
PLANNING DEPARTMENT TO INITIATE A STUDY WITH
RESPECT TO DEVELOPING APPROPRIATE ZONING
REGULATIONS GOVERNING SUCH USES.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF ROSEMEAD DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
Section 1 While this ordinance remains in effect, no
entertainment licenses authorizing the establishment of
Karaoke/KTV studios shall be issued and no application for such
a permit shall be accepted.
Section 2. This temporary prohibition shall not apply to
any application which was filed with the City Manager's office
on or before November 18, 1991.
Section 3. Pursuant to the provisions of Section 65858 of
the Government Code of the State of California, this is an
urgency interim zoning ordinance. This ordinance shall take
effect immediately and shall expire forty-five (45) days
thereafter unless extended by the City Council after notice and
• public hearing. The facts constituting the current and
immediate threat to the public welfare necessitating an urgency
ordinance are as follows:
The City Council finds and determines that the moratorium
imposed by this ordinance is enacted to protect and preserve
the public health, safety and welfare of the local business
community and residents of the community pending completion
of a Planning Department review of this subject. The
Council has been aware of potential problems with the
Karaoke/KTV studios, throughout the City. The City has
requested historical data from the L.A. County Sheriff's
Department which data will assist in the evaluation of these
problems. The volume of applictions for such licenses is a
current and immediate threat to the public welfare, and the
approval of additional Karaoke/KTV studios without
appropriate regulations for such uses would result in a
• threat to the public welfare.
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Section 4. The City Council may grant relief from the
provisions of this moratorium ordinance upon recommendation of
the city Manager's Office, subject to a finding of the
following:
1. The strict application of the provisions of the
moratorium to a particular project would result in practical
difficulties or unnecessary hardships inconsistent with the
general purpose and intent of the moratorium; and
2. That there are exceptional circumstances or
conditions applicable to the development that do not apply
generally to the other projects covered by this moratorium;
and
3. That the granting of an exception would not be
materially detrimental to the public welfare as defined
above.
Section 5. If any provision of this ordinance is held to be
unconstitutional, it is the intent of the City Council that such
portion of this ordinance be severable from the remainder and
that the remainder be given full force and effect.
Section 6. The Planning Department is hereby directed to
commence a study and to make recommendations it deems necessary
to strengthen the City's
ability to scrutinize applications for.
the Karaoke/KTV studios.
Section 7. The City
Clerk shall certify to the adoption of
this ordinance.
PASSED, APPROVED and
ADOPTED this 26th day of November,
1991.
MAYOR
I hereby certify that the foregoing Ordinance
ATTEST.,,".
No. 694 was adopted,-as an urgency ordinance by
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the•~.CityrCouncil of the City of Rosemead at a
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regular.meeting thereof held on the 26th day of
November, 1991, by the following vote:
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- CITY CLERK
Yes: Bruesch, Taylor, Imperial, Clark, McDonald
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No: None Absen
: None Abstain: None
C Clerk