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accordance with Government Code Section 36937 at a duly noticed public meeting on January 27, 2016, at which time it received and considered testimony from members of the public; and WHEREAS, Article XI, Section 7 of the California Constitution provides a city or town may make and enforce within its limits all local police, sanitary and other ordinances and regulations not in conflict with general laws; and WHEREAS, the City Council of the Town of Los Altos Hills finds that 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. NOW, THEREFORE, the City Council of the Town of Los Altos Hills does hereby ORDAIN as follows: 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 park 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 medical 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 medical marijuana in other cities and towns has resulted in calls for service to the police department, including calls for robberies and thefts; medical 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. 3. By adopting this ordinance, the Town will satisfy the requirement under the new state legislation that the Town have land use regulations or ordinances regulating or prohibiting the cultivation of medical marijuana, then commencing on March 1, 2016. 4. The Town of Los Altos Hills' Zoning Codes are hereby amended where and as necessary to prohibit marijuana cultivation and commercial activity 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 Ordinance 561 Page 3