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There are currently several dozen Bail Bonds businesses in the City and as of the date of this emergency ordinance, at least two individual developers have contacted the City to seek to establish new locations at which to engage in the business of selling Bail Bonds. If unregulated, Bail Bonds businesses would create detrimental impacts to the surrounding areas, including adjacent single family neighborhoods for the following reasons: Unlike most service or office uses in the City, Bail Bonds uses are typically open twenty-four (24) hours per day, and often include a provision for employees to actually reom (i.e., sleep) at the business during night hours, which if not properly regulated is incompatible with other commercial uses a nd adjacent residential areas. Unlike most service or office uses in the City, Bail Bonds uses typically include a major on-site security component (e.g., armed security guards, "bullet-proof" glass, and controlled visitor parking) that, if not propedy regulated, is incompatible with other commercial uses and adjacent residential areas. Bail Bond uses in the City and in other cities concentrate in certain areas and such concentrations, if not properly regulated, could create significant secondary effects such as lowering of property values, an increase in crime, and failure of these areas to recycle to new, superior commercial uses. Unregulated Bail Bond uses, particularly when located immediately adjacent to single family neighborhoods, constitute an incompatible use to the City's single family residential zoning district. In order to prevent the frustration of said studies and the implementation thereof, the public interest, health, safety and welfare require the immediate enactment of t his ordinance. The absence o f t his ordinance would 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 as a result of the studies, in that the establishment or construction of Bail Bond uses may be in conflict with or frustrate the contemplated updates and revisions to the Code, general plans or specific plans. Moreover, permitting such Bail Bond uses to be established or constructed during said studies and implementation would create impacts on the public health, safety and welfare that the City Council, in adopting this ordinance, has found to be unacceptable. Ordinance No. NS-2639 Page 2 of 5