Ordinance 2204-97 - Laserfiche WebLink

WHEREAS, amending comprehensive plans and development regulations under the Growth Management Act is a comparatively new process; and WHEREAS, the previous litigation has raised procedural as well as substantive legal challenges to the City's actions; and WHEREAS,the pending and potential litigation if successful even on procedural grounds would threaten the City's ability to manage the secondary adverse impacts of adult use businesses; and WHEREAS, the continued threat to the City's adult use business policies and regulations creates a risk to the City's ability to manage the averse secondary impacts from such businesses; and WHEREAS, the City Council finds this risk to constitute an emergency; and WHEREAS,the City Council does hereby find that by the adoption of this Ordinance the City Council finalizes the emergency measures concerning adult use business zoning regulations adopted in Ordinance No. 2144-96 and makes them permanent; Now, Therefore, The City of Everett Does Ordain: Section 1. The title to Ordinance No. 2144-96 which reads as follows: An Ordinance Amending City of Everett Zoning Code Ordinance#1671-89, as amended, Related to Adult Use Businesses, Providing an Interim Designation, and Declaring an Emergency to Exist. be and the same is hereby amended to read as follows: An Ordinance Amending City of Everett Zoning Code Ordinance#1671-89, as amended, Related to Adult Use Businesses, and Declaring an Emergency to Exist. Section 2. Section 18 of Ordinance No. 2144-96 is repealed and Sections 1 and 2 of Ordinance No. 2178-96 are hereby repealed. The remaining provisions of Ordinance No. 2144-96 and 2178-96 as amended herein are hereby made permanent. Section 3. An emergency does exist and this is a continuation of the emergency action commenced in Ordinance No. 2144-96 3