Ordinance No. 0974 07-22-1991ORDINANCE NO. 974
, AN INTERIM ORDINANCE PLACING A MORATORIUM ON
THE ISSUANCE OF SPECIAL USE PERMITS FOR AUTO
BODY REPAYR BIISINESSES AND PROHIBITING THEIR
LOCATION WITHIN THE CITY WHILE THE MORATORIUM
IS IN EFFECT
The City Council of the City of Fridley does hereby ordain as
follows:
SECTION 1 PURPOSE AND INTENT
The City Council finds that an interim ordinance placing a
moratorium on the location and establishment o£ auto body repair
businesses is necessary to protect the health, safety, morals, and
general welfare of the citizens of the community; and
The City Council finds that an interim ordinance placing a
moratorium on the location of auto body repair businesses is
necessary in order to permit the planning process to take place and
to allow the City staff, Planning Commission, and City Council to
proceed in an orderly fashion to adopt a permanent ordinance
requiring the owners and operators of auto repair businesses to
obtain a license to operate within the City.
� SECTION 2 AUTHORITY
This ordinance is adopted pursuant to that authority granted in the
City of Minnesota Statutes Annotated 462.355, Subd. 4, entitled
"Interim Ordinance".
SECTION 3 DEFINITIONS
The City Council hereby directs the City staff to study and prepare
an ordinance requiring owners and operators of auto repair
businesses to obtain a business license, and to schedule a public
hearing before the Planning Commission within sixty (60) days of
the effective date of this interim ordinance. The City staff is
further directed to report the results of their studies and
recommendations along with the recommendations of the Planning
Commission as soon as the Planning Commission has completed their
hearings and recommendations.
SECTION 4 VIOLATION
The City may enforce any provision of this ordinance by mandamus
injunction or other appropriate civil remedy in any court of
competent jurisdiction.
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SECTION 5 SEVERABILITY
Every section, provision, or part of this ordinance is declared
severable from every other section, provision, or part thereof to
the extent that if any section, provision, or part of this
ordinance shall be held invalid by a court of competent
7urisdiction, it shall not invalidate any other section, provision,
or part thereof.
This ordinance shall become effective fifteen (15) days after
publication and shall be in effect for a period of one hundred and
eighty (180) days from the date hereof.
PASSED AND ADOPTED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF FRIDLEY THIS
22ND DAY OF JULY, 1991.
ATTEST:
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SHIRLEY A. HAAPALA CITY CLERK
First Reading: July l, 1991
Second Reading: July 22, 1991
Publication: July 31, 1441
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WILLIAM J. EE - MAYOR