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jmf 4-28-21 process, and (2) prevents the Planning Commission and City Council from imposing conditions of approval to ensure compatible and harmonious operations of such facilities with surrounding properties and neighborhoods. 2. Operations typical of Light Processing Facilities, which include preparation of material for efficient shipment, or to an end -user's specifications, by such means as baling, briquetting, compacting, flattening, grinding, crushing, mechanical sorting, shredding, cleaning, and remanufacturing, are known to have detrimental effects on surrounding properties due to the noise, odor, vibration, vermin infestation, visual, and traffic impacts caused by inbound and outbound truck movements to and from such facilities. The absence of a Conditional Use Permit requirement for such facilities severely circumscribes the City's ability, through its administrative review process, to impose conditions on such operations that would otherwise protect the health, welfare, and safety of residents and visitors to properties abutting or in the vicinity of Light Processing Facilities. O. Prevention of detrimental impacts to residents, the public interest, health, safety and welfare requires the immediate enactment of this Urgency Ordinance. The absence of this Urgency Ordinance will create a serious threat to the orderly and effective implementation of any code amendments, General Plan amendments or specific plan amendments which may be adopted by the City. Light Processing Facilities permitted by -right may be in conflict with or frustrate other provisions of the SAMC intended to guarantee or preserve the public peace, health, or safety. Moreover, permitting such facilities without requiring a Conditional Use Permit would create impacts on the public health, safety and welfare that the City Council, in adopting this ordinance, has found to be unacceptable. P. The Request for Council Action for this ordinance dated May 4, 2021 and duly signed by the Executive Director of the Planning and Building Agency shall, by this reference, be incorporated herein, and together with this ordinance, any amendments or supplements, and oral testimony constitute the necessary findings for this ordinance. Q. The City Council finds, determines and declares that the current and immediate threat to the public health, safety and welfare of the city and its citizens necessitates the immediate enactment of the ordinance. The facts constituting such urgency are set forth in paragraphs A through O of this ordinance. R. The City Council of the City of Santa Ana intends that nothing in this article shall be deemed to conflict with State or Federal law, nor to otherwise permit any activity that is prohibited under the California Beverage Container Recycling & Litter Reduction Act or other applicable law. Ordinance No. NS-3004 Page 4 of 8