75C - PH - EXTEND MORT CYBER CAFE

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necessary for the City of Santa Ana to continue to study the potential impacts such facilities may have on the public health, safety and welfare. F. While no new regulations have been formulated or proposed in the brief time since the adoption of the moratorium, progress has been made toward identifying key stakeholders and logical next steps. G. City staff, the Santa Ana Police Department, Code Enforcement, and the City Attorney's office are continuing to conduct research into the possible and likely impacts of regulating or outlawing cyber cafes and internet access businesses in the City in order to mitigate such impacts. H. City staff is continuing to gather factual data regarding the adverse impacts experienced by other cities that permit cyber cafes and internet access businesses. This information is currently being processed as a tool to draft provisions for regulating cyber cafes and internet access businesses in the City. I. City staff continues to conduct research into the City's options for regulating cyber cafes and internet access businesses. This research includes a review of many city ordinances in California that either prohibit or regulate cyber cafes and internet access businesses. J. As a result, the City Council desires to extend the moratorium as it applies to cyber cafes and internet access businesses for a period of ten (10) months and fifteen (15) days (Government Code section 65858) to allow staff and the City Council the opportunity to continue to research and select the best course of action for the City's citizens and the community at large. K. The City Council has determined that the circumstances and conditions that led to the adoption of Ordinance No. NS -2956, which are set in the recitals of Ordinance No. NS -2956, have not been alleviated as of the date of this Urgency Ordinance and continue to create the concerns described in Ordinance No. NS -2956. L. Based on the foregoing, the City Council finds that issuing permits, business licenses, or other applicable entitlements to individuals wishing to use their property for the purposes of cyber cafes and internet access businesses, prior to the City's completion of its study of the potential impact of such cyber cafes and internet access businesses, would pose a current and immediate threat to the public health, safety, and welfare, and that a temporary moratorium on the issuance of such permits, licenses, and entitlements is thus necessary. M. Based on the foregoing, the City Council finds that the use of property as a cyber cafe and internet access businesses in any zone of the City prior to the City's completion of its study of the potential impact of such cyber cafes and internet access businesses is a public nuisance and poses a current and immediate threat to the public health, safety, and welfare. Ordinance No. NS - _ Page 2 of 7 75C-6