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File #: ROGC 20-492    Version: 1
Type: Rules Committee Reviews, Recommendations and Approvals Status: Agenda Ready
File created: 10/22/2020 In control: Joint Meeting for the Rules and Open Government Committee and Committee of the Whole
On agenda: 10/28/2020 Final action:
Title: Pawnbroker Ordinance. (Jones & Esparza)
Attachments: 1. Memorandum from Jones & Esparza, 2. Early Consideration - Pawnbroker Ordinance

...Title

Pawnbroker Ordinance. (Jones & Esparza)

...Recommendations

1. Direct Staff to update the conditional use process and requirements for Pawnbrokers to mirror the process and requirements set forth in the off-sale of alcohol beverage establishments including but not limited to:

 a. Proposed locations within five hundred feet of existing pawnbrokers, within or outside the City, must not result in a total of three pawnbrokers within a thousand-foot radius.

 b. If a proposed location results in more than three pawnbrokers within a thousand-foot radius, the resulting concentration of such uses will not:

  i. Adversely affect the peace, health, safety, morals, or welfare of persons residing or working in the surrounding area; or

  ii. Impair the utility or value of property of other persons located in the vicinity of the area; or

  iii. Be detrimental to public health, safety or general welfare.

 c. For such location within five hundred feet from any child care center; public park; social service agency; residential care facility; residential service facility; elementary school; secondary school; college or university; neighborhood revitalization area designated by the city for targeted neighborhood enhancement services or programs; parolee/probationer home; emergency shelter; supportive housing; transitional housing and transitional housing development; located within an area in which the chief of police has determined based upon quantifiable information that the proposed use: (a) would be detrimental to the public health, safety, or welfare of persons located in the area; or (b) would increase the severity of existing law enforcement or public nuisance problems in the area; or one hundred fifty feet from any residentially zoned property, the building in which the proposed use is to be located is situated and oriented in such a manner that would not adversely affect the locations listed.

 d. Planning Commission’s decision to be appealable to Council.