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Section 5: The City Council declares a moratorium on the issuance of any approvals, permits or licenses for medical marijuana dispensaries, and any modifications of existing uses to include a medical marijuana dispensary, in all zoning districts in the City, including any site, facility, location, use, cooperative or business that distributes, sells, exchanges, possesses, transports, stores, delivers, gives away, allows on-site consumption of, or cultivates marijuana for medical purposes, pursuant to the California Health and Safety Code SS 11362.5and 11362.7 or implementing State statutes or regulations, as may be amended. Section 6: The City Council will allow any person to apply for an exception from the provisions of this Ordinance based on economic hardship. Such application shall state the nature of the hardship and the reasons why an exception to this Ordinance is warranted. The application shall explain the relationship of the proposed medical marijuana dispensary to the character of its surroundings; the impact the proposed dispensary may have on surrounding properties and how such impacts will be mitigated. The application shall state why applying for and obtaining an approval, permit or license as set forth herein and/or why the delay in pursuing the use until the City completes its evaluation of the current zoning, and any future zoning proposal, and then makes any amendments, revisions or modifications to the Municipal Code as the City Council deems appropriate, would constitute a taking in contravention of the law. Any such hardship application shall be first considered before the Planning Commission as an application for a conditional use permit pursuant to Chapter 18.124 of the Pleasanton Municipal Code, and upon the recommendation of the Planning Commission shall then also be considered by the City Council pursuant to the provisions of Chapter 18.144 of the Pleasanton Municipal Code. Section 7: A summary of this ordinance shall be published once within fifteen (15) days after its adoption in The Valley Times, a newspaper of general circulation published in the City of Pleasant on, and the complete ordinance shall be posted for fifteen days in the City Clerk's Office at 123 Main Street, Pleasanton, within fifteen (15) days after its adoption. Section 8: This urgency ordinance shall be effective immediately upon adoption and shall extend the existing moratorium for an additional twelve (12) months. INTRODUCED and ADOPTED at a regular meeting of the City Council of City of Pleasant on on July _, 2006 by the following vote: AYES: NOES: ABSENT: ABSTAIN: Exhibit A Page 6 of7