(a) The City Planning Commission and Council find that charitable and religious organizations active in the City require additional funds for the maintenance of their operating facilities and the advancement of their purposes which the Commission and Council find beneficial and deserving of public support. Therefore, Council finds that an emergency exists in the further interests of the health, safety or welfare of the people of the City.
(b) The Commission and Council further find that some of such organizations are desirous of conducting sales of various commodities on their premises for the use of people in, or for the maintenance and repair of, their homes. The sales hereinafter authorized are limited to such purposes with the further requirement that the proceeds thereof shall be devoted to the general purposes of such organizations.
(c) The Commission and Council find that the right to conduct business in other than permanent buildings is prohibited in all use districts under existing zoning regulations of the City and that sales are permitted only in retail districts, except, under certain limited circumstances, in Office Building and Hotel Districts. It is further found that if charitable and religious organizations are permitted as hereinafter regulated, the general plan of the City would not be thereby affected. However, if any provision of this chapter is declared invalid by a court of competent jurisdiction, or if such court grants an order extending the right to conduct business in other than permanent buildings to persons or organizations other than those permitted by this chapter, in any zone classification in the City, then this chapter and the permission herein provided for shall be null and of no effect and the present total prohibition against such business prior to the effective date hereof shall then be in full force and effect.
(Ord. 60-70. Passed 10-3-60.)