Ordinance - 1695•
ORDINANCE NO. 1695
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF WEST COVINA,
CALIFORNIA, AMENDING THE WEST COVINA, MUNICIPAL
CODE, CHAPTER, 26, ARTICLES XI, SECTION 26-597,
AS IT RELATES TO FORTUNE TELLING.(Amendment No. 200)
The City Council of the City of West Covina does ordain as
follows:
SECTION NO. 1: The City Council does hereby find,
determine and declare that the following amendment was duly
initiated, that notice of hearing thereon was duly given and
published, that public hearings hereon were duly held by the
Planning Commission and the City Council, and that the public
convenience, necessity and general welfare and good zoning practice
require that the following amendment be made.
SECTION NO. 2: The City Council does hereby find, based
on studies and investigations, made by the Planning Commission and
in its behalf, of regulations of Office (O-P) and Retail -Commercial
(N-C, S-C and R-C) to establish the appropriate zone or zones in
which fortune telling as a business use may be located, the
following facts:
a. Since fortune telling is not a use that produces a product
and does require contact with the public, neither
manufacturing nor residential zones should be considered
as an appropriate zone.
b. The nature of fortune telling as a business is not that of
a convenient daily shopping facility and is not an
appropriate use in the Neighborhood -Commercial (N-C) Zone.
C. Office -Professional (0-P), being a less intense zone than
N-C, is not an appropriate zone in which to allow fortune
telling as a business use.
d. Being a service that is more intense than 0-P and N-C type
uses, fortune telling as a business land use is an
appropriate use to be located in the Service -Commercial
(S-C) Zone.
e. Being a non -repair type service that is more intense than
0-P and N-C type uses, fortune telling as a business land
use is also an appropriate use to be located in the
Regional -Commercial (R-C) Zone.
f. Offering locations throughout the City the S-C Zone,
mainly on North Azusa and Glendora Avenues, and the R-C
Zone, in the Eastland Center and central business district
areas, this amendment could not be considered to preclude
the use due to lack of available sites.
SECTION NO. 3: Chapter.26, Article XI, Section 26-597
of the West Covina Municipal Code is hereby amended by adding
fortune telling to read as follows:
Fortune Telling
(Section 15-11)
M
M
M
M
P
R
R
F
F
F
F
0
N
C
R
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C
M
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A
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0
A
1
8
15
20
45
P
C
C
C
C
2
3
1
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R
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S
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SECTION NO. 4: The City Council finds and determines that
said Amendment to the Municipal Code is a minor modification to the
City's Zoning Ordinance and is, therefore, categorically exempt
(Class 5) from the requirements of the California Environmental
Quality Act of 1970 (CEQA).
SECTION NO. 5: The City Clerk shall certify to the
passage of this Ordinance and shall cause the same to be published
as required by law.
PASSED AND APPROVED this 28th
ATTEST:
day of October , 1985.
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City Clerk
STATE OF CALIFORNIA )
COUNTY OF LOS ANGELES ) SS
CITY OF WEST COVINA )
Mayor
I, Helene M. Mooney, City Clerk of the City of West Covina, do here-
by certify that the foregoing Ordinance No. 1695 was regularly in-
troduced and placed upon its first reading at a regular meeting of
the City Council on the 14th day of October , 1985. That,
thereafter, said Ordinance was duly adopted and passed at a regular
meeting of the City Council on the 28th day of October ,
1985, by the following vote, to wit:
AYES: Bacon, Manners, Chappell, Shearer, Tennant
NOES: None
ABSENT: None
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
City Attorney
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City Clerk
C E R T I F I C A T I O N
I, JANET BERRY, Deputy City Clerk of the City of West Covina, State
• of California, do hereby certify that a true and accurate copy of
Ordinance No. * T6 was published, pursuant to law, in the San
Gabriel Valley. Tribune, a newspaper of general circulation published
and circulated in the City of West Covina.
Ama-I(A'Ab1m)
Janet Be , Deputy City Clerk
City of West Covina, California
DATED: J