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7.A. - Page 4 establishments including zoning is located on the City's website at the following address: www.redwoodcity.orq /massage establishments map Additionally, there are eight locations providing massage services that are either on Woodside Road or El Camino Real that are solely within the County's jurisdiction. The City has no authority over these businesses. The County is also in the process of evaluating its massage regulations. The City and County will be meeting to discuss our respective ordinances and enforcement of them in Redwood City and the unincorporated areas. The City has both City - permitted massage workers and state - certified massage workers employed in these establishments. An informal survey showed that most of the massage workers in the City are state - certified: City Permit + State License City Permit Only State License Only 2 16 59 Currently, the Redwood City Police Department reports that it has not experienced significant enforcement problems associated with massage establishments located in the jurisdiction of Redwood City, although there have been problems with such businesses in the County's jurisdiction. The Police Department's permitting and enforcement program coordinated with the Planning Division review process thus far have effectively regulated massage services within the Redwood City's jurisdiction, but the Police Department expresses a somewhat increased concern with the workers /establishments that are not state - certified. Moratoria and Distance Requirements Due to the downturn in the economy, the City continues to receive increasing numbers of requests to establish massage service and various personal service businesses. Some people in the community have asked whether the City may enact a moratorium or distance requirements among massage businesses because they are concerned that some massage businesses may be a front for prostitution or that too many businesses of the same type devalue the area due to secondary negative effects. A moratorium is a land use control invoked to address a "current and immediate threat to the public safety, health, and welfare." (Cal. Gov't Code § 65858) It allows the City to prohibit a use that may be in conflict with a contemplated zoning proposal that the Council intends to consider or study within a reasonable time. Also, when a city can show demonstrable negative secondary effects of over - saturation of a business type, it may enact distance requirements. For example, the City of Corona enacted a moratorium after issuing 105 citations that demonstrated non - compliance with local law; the City of Belmont established a moratorium in late 2010 when it discovered that 37 of 46 licensed therapists in the City had attended "suspect" schools identified by the state as conduits for sex workers; and the City of San Carlos created distance requirements between financial institutions due to a proliferation of banks. However, state law prohibits cities from enacting moratoria and other land use regulations like distance requirements or even enforcing existing regulations against 4