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SECTION I. FINDINGS. Based on the entirety of the record as described above, the City Council for the Town of Los Altos Hills hereby makes the following findings: 1. All of the facts and recitals above are true, corrected, incorporated herein and made a part hereof such that there exists a current and immediate threat to the public health, safety, and welfare requiring immediate implementation of an urgency ordinance to prohibit marijuana cultivation and commercial operations within the Town of Los Altos Hills. 2. The urgency ordinance is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public peace, health, and safety because the cultivation of marijuana in other cities and towns as resulted in calls for service to the police department, including calls for robberies and thefts; marijuana cultivation poses safety risks to surrounding neighbors,including but not limited to,risks of violent confrontation in connection with attempts to steal marijuana and risk of fire damage and loss from improper wiring within structures growing marijuana. The City Council of the Town of Los Altos Hills hereby finds that there continues to exist a current and immediate threat to the public health, safety and welfare that warrants the extension of the temporary moratorium on the cultivation of marijuana including personal outdoor cultivation and the establishment of all commercial recreational marijuana operation as described in this Ordinance. 3. By adopting the ordinance, the Town will satisfy the requirement under the new state legislation that an application for a state license for commercial recreational marijuana operations in the Town cannot be approved if approval of the state license would violate Town land use regulations or ordinances regulating or prohibiting commercial marijuana operations. 4. The Town of Los Altos Hills' Zoning Codes are hereby amended where and as necessary to prohibit cultivation of recreational marijuana and commercial recreational marijuana activity and businesses in the Town of Los Altos Hills. 5. This project is exempt from California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to"general exemptions"described in Section 15061(b)(3)of the CEQA Guidelines, since the ordinance would not have any significant effects on the environment. 6. The proposed Zoning Ordinance amendments are consistent with the adopted General Plan because the prohibited uses are not compatible with the low density, semi-rural atmosphere of the community. None of the amendments will conflict with or impede achievement of any of the objectives, goals, policies, programs, or general land use designations established in the General Plan and are compatible with such General Plan objectives,policies,general land uses, and programs. SECTION IL MORATORIUM EXTENDED. In accordance with the authority granted to the Town of Los Altos Hills under Article XI, section 7 of the California Constitution and California Government Code section 65858, from and after the date of this Ordinance, the temporary moratorium established and imposed by the Town as of December 14, 2017, is hereby extended for 10 months and 15 days and the Ordinance 574 Page 3