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AGENDA STATEMENT
City Council Meeting Date: August 11, 1986
SUBJECT: Public Hearing: PA 86-035 Fortunetelling Ordinance
Zoning Ordinance Amendment
EXHIBITS ATTACHED: Exhibit -A:, Ordinance -Amending -the "City Zoning Ordinance
Regarding Fortunetelling.
RECOMMENDATION: �i �" 1) Open Public Hearing
2 a
) Receive R Staff Presentation
c 3) Receive Public Testimony
�\1 4) Close Public Hearing and Deliberate
5) Waive Second Reading and Adopt Ordinance Amending City
Zoning Ordinance Relating to Fortunetelling.
FINANCIAL STATEMENT: None.
DESCRIPTION:
On July 28, 1986, the City Council introduced an Ordinance regarding
Fortunetelling and adopted a Resolution for the associated Negative Declaration.
The Ordinance proposes to amend the City Zoning Ordinance to (1) define
Fortunetelling, (2) permit Fortunetelling in the C-1 District subject to the approval of
a Conditional Use Permit, and (3) prohibit Fortunetelling as a home occupation.
Staff recommends that the City Council waive the second reading and adopt the
Ordinance relating to Fortunetelling.
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ITEM N0. 6a, COPIES TO: PA 86-035
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ORDINANCE NO.
AN-ORDINANCE•OF THE CITY OF DUBLIN AMENDING - .._._ _.......
THE CITY ZONING ORDINANCE REGARDING FORTUNETELLING
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The City Council of the City of Dublin does ordain as follows:
SECTION 1. Amendments:
A. Section 8-20.16.6 (Definitions) of the Dublin Zoning Ordinance is
hereby added to read:
"8-20.16.6 FORTUNETELLING. Fortunetelling means the telling of
fortunes, forecasting of futures or furnishing of any information
not otherwise obtainable by the ordinary process of knowledge, by
means of any occult, psychic power, faculty, force, clairvoyance,
clairaudience, cartomancy, psychology, psychometry, phrenology,
spirits, tea leaves, or other such reading, mediumship, seership,
prophecy, augury, astrology, palmistry, necromancy, mindreading,
telepathy, or other craft, art, science, cards, talisman, charm,
potion, magnetism, magnetized article or substance, gypsy cunning
or foresight, crystal gazing, oriental mysteries or magic, of any
kind or nature for pay, including a fee, reward, donation, loan,
or receipt of anything of value."
B. Section 8-48.2 (t) (Conditional Uses: C-1 Districts) of the
Dublin Zoning Ordinance is hereby added to read:
"t) Fortunetelling."
C. Section 8-60.22 (m) (Home Occupations) of the Dublin Zoning
Ordinance is hereby added to read:
"m) Fortunetelling as defined in Section 8-20.16.6 (Definitions)."
Section 2. Severability:
If any section, subsection, subdivision, paragraph, sentence, clause or
phrase of this Ordinance, or any part thereof, is for any reason held to be
unconstitutional, the validity of the remaining portions of this Ordinance
shall not be affected thereby.
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EXHIBiT A
Section 3. Effective Date and Posting of Ordinance:
This Ordinance shall take effect and be in force thirty (30) days from
and after the date of its passage. The City Clerk of the City of Dublin shall
cause this Ordinance to be posted in at least three (3) public places in the
City of Dublin in accordance with Section 36933 of the Government Code of the
State of California.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City of Dublin on this
day of 1986, by the following votes:
AYES:
NOES:
ABSENT:
Mayor
ATTEST:
City Clerk
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