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ORDINANCE NO. 1843 SERIES 2022 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE PROVIDING FOR A TEMPORARY MORATORIUM ON THE SUBMISSION, ACCEPTANCE, PROCESSING, OR APPROVAL OF ANY LAND USE APPLICATION, OR ISSUANCE OF ANY SPECIAL USE PERMIT, RELATED TO THE USE OF PROPERTY WITHIN THE CITY AS A GASOLINE SERVICE STATION OR AN AUTOMOBILE SERVICE STATION WHEREAS, the City of Louisville is committed to protecting the health, safety, and welfare of its citizens, and safeguarding the environment and wildlife resources; and WHEREAS, the City Council believes it has not only the authority but the responsibility to plan for and regulate the use of land within the City in order to best protect and promote the health, safety, and welfare of present and future inhabitants and residents of the City, and to guide future growth, development, and distribution of land uses within the City; and WHEREAS, the City regulates the use of land by those ordinances codified in Title 17 of the Louisville Municipal Code; and WHEREAS, the City regulates the construction of buildings and other structures within the City by those codes adopted in Title 15 of the Louisville Municipal Code; and WHEREAS, on October 24, 2022, the City Clerk approved the form of an initiative petition for an Initiative Ordinance that, if approved by the City Council or the City's electors, would prohibit gasoline service stations and automobile service stations in all zone districts within the City and prohibit issuance of a building permit for construction of a gasoline service station within 2.5 miles of an existing gasoline service station; and WHEREAS, as of October 1, 2022, the Colorado Energy Office reports there are 66,599 electric vehicles (EVs) registered in Colorado, 11.71 per 1,000 people, and 9,198 EVs in Boulder County, 27.1 EV's per 1,000 people; and WHEREAS, according to the Colorado Energy Office, EV ownership is currently increasing both statewide and in Boulder County, and in the past six months 8.62% of new vehicle registrations in Boulder County were for EVs; and WHEREAS, the City Council recognizes this trend in EV sales will likely impact the continued viability of gasoline service stations within the City, and thus impact the appropriate mix of land uses within the City; and WHEREAS, the City Council finds and determines it is of critical importance to the City and its residents that the City Council examine the important policy considerations presented by gasoline service stations and automobile service stations in the overall mix of land uses within the Ordinance No. 1843, Series 2022 Page 1 of 5