...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.