(a) It is hereby declared to be the public policy of the City in the exercise of its police power for the protection of the public safety, public health and general welfare, for the maintenance of business and good government and for the promotion of the City's trade, commerce and manufacturing, to provide all of its residents equal opportunity in the sale, purchase, lease, rental and financing of housing accommodations, or real property. Equal opportunity in the areas of employment, public accommodations, housing accommodations and real property is hereby declared to be a human right or civil right of all persons without regard to sex, age, race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, blindness or physical handicap.
(b) The denial of these rights to properly qualified persons by reason of race, religion, color, national origin, ancestry, sex, age, blindness or physical handicap is contrary to the principles of freedom and equal opportunity and is destructive to a free and democratic society.
(c) Upon the effective date of this section, this article is amended in its entirety, to be read in pari materia with this section so as to include the physically handicapped within the protection from discriminatory practices afforded the other various classes of persons whose identity is specifically set forth herein.
(Ord. 84-18. Passed 12-3-84.)