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ATTACHMENT 1 <br />ATTY/ORD.420/MORATORIUM ON MARIJUANA CULTIVATION FACILITIES <br />REV: 01-21-16 RL <br />Page 6 of 7 <br />immediate threat to the public health, safety, and welfare requiring this interim Urgency <br />Ordinance; (2) this Ordinance is necessary for the immediate preservation of the public <br />peace, health, and safety as set forth herein; and (3) hereby declares and imposes a <br />temporary moratorium for the immediate preservation of the public health, safety and <br />welfare as set forth below: <br /> <br />A. No marijuana cultivation facility or commercial cannabis activity may be <br />established, operated, commenced, opened, or initiated in any zoning district in the City <br />of Redwood City. <br /> <br />B. No use permit, site development permit, tentative map, parcel map, <br />variance, grading permit, building permit, building plans, zone change, business license, <br />or other applicable permit will be accepted, approved, or issued for the establishment of <br />a marijuana cultivation facility or commercial cannabis activity. <br /> <br />C. As used in this Ordinance, the following definitions apply: <br /> <br />1 “Commercial cannabis activity” shall have the meaning set forth in <br />Business and Professions Code section 19300.5(k). <br /> <br /> 2. “Cultivation” means any activity involving the planting, growing, <br />harvesting, drying, curing, grading, or trimming of marijuana. <br /> <br /> 3. "Marijuana" means all parts of the plant Cannabis, whether growing <br />or not; the seeds thereof; the resin extracted from any part of the plant; and every <br />compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or preparation of the plant, its seeds or <br />resin. It includes marijuana infused in foodstuff, and concentrated cannabis and the <br />separated resin, whether crude or petrified, obtained from marijuana. It does not include <br />the mature stalks of the plant, fiber produced from the stalks, oil or cake made from the <br />seeds of the plant, any other compound, manufacture, salt, derivative, mixture, or <br />preparation of the mature stalks (except resin extracted therefrom), fiber, oil, or cake, or <br />the sterilized seeds of the plant that are incapable of germination. <br /> <br /> 4. “Marijuana cultivation facility” means any business, facility, use, <br />establishment, property, or location where the cultivation of marijuana occurs. <br /> <br /> D. Any use or condition caused or permitted to exist in violation of any of the <br />provisions of this Ordinance shall be and is hereby declared a public nuisance and may <br />be abated by the City pursuant to the procedures set forth in Article 50 of this Code. <br /> <br />SECTION 4. Effective Date and Duration. Pursuant to Government Code <br />section 65858(b), this Ordinance shall take effect immediately but shall be of no further <br />force and effect 45 days from its date of adoption unless the City Council, after notice and <br />public hearing as provided under Government Code section 65858(b) and adoption of the <br />findings required by Government Code section 65858(c), subsequently extends this <br />Ordinance. <br />9.A. - Page 12