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ORDINANCE NS-1204 PAGE TWO NOW, THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: SECTION 1. That the Department of Building Safety of the City of Santa Ana shall not issue any permits for the construction of any sign or billboard designed to advertise a product, event, person, or subject not related to the lot upon which such sign is located for a period to terminate upon the effective date of the amending ordinance requiring that such construction be allowed only with the approval of a conditional use permit or for a period of ninety (90) days from the initial effective date of this ordinance, whichever occurs first. SECTION 2. The enactment of this ordinance is hereby found by the City Council to be justified by the public necessity, convenience and general welfare. SECTION 3. This ordinance shall take effect as an urgency measure immediately upon its adoption. The City Council declares that it is necessary to the public peace, health, safety and welfare that this ordinance be adopted as an emergency measure. The facts constituting the emergency are: that there is presently pending for action by the Planning Commission of the City of Santa Ana and by the City Council of the City of Santa Ana a proposed ordinance, which if enacted as proposed, would further restrict the future construction of off-premise signs and bill- boards in all use districts where such signs and billboards are presently permitted by imposing the requirement that all such construction be pursuant to the issuance of conditional use permits, and that if the proposed ordinance is enacted, the issuance of a building permit for the construction of an off- premise advertising sign, in the absence of a conditional use permit therefor, will be illegal, and that the City Council desires that the status quo be preserved pending the determination by the Planning Commission and by the City Council of whether the imposition of a conditional use permit requirement upon the construction of such off-premise advertising signs and bill- boards would be in the interest of the public necessity, con- venience, and general welfare, and that the City Council antici- pates that upon the fact becoming public knowledge that the Planning Commission and the City Council are considering the proposed ordinance, and in the absence of any restriction upon the issuance of building permits for the construction of off- premise advertising signs, there is likely to occur a massive and hurried effort on the part of persons desiring to construct such signs prior to the possible enactment of said ordinance, such as would not occur if said ordinance were not pending, and that there has in fact occurred a hurried effort on the part of certain advertising sign concerns to make application for the construction of off-premise advertising signs as a result of the commencement of proceedings by the Planning Commission of the City of Santa Ana to enact an ordinance requiring a conditional use permit for such signs, such as would not have occurred if the said ordinance were not pending.