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by a vote of 5-Ayes, it was continued from the meeting of November 25, 1980, at the request of staff, and it is now in order to adopt the ordinance.- It was moved by Councilmember Kephart, and seconded by Councilmember Wood, that Ordinance No. 946, amending Title IV by adding Chapter 9 (Noise Regulation) and amending Title I, Chapter 1, Section 1-1.15 making violations of that chapter an infraction, be adopted. The roll call vote was as follows: AYES: Councilmembers Butler, Kephart, Mohr, Wood, and Mayor Mercer NOES: None ABSENT: None ~.option of Ordinance No. 953~. ~mending Title IV~ ~bap~er 2~ Article 7~ Section 4-3.18 limiting card rooms to one and Section 4-3.28 limitin~ card rooms to one already in existence (Contd. from 12-9-80) Mayor Mercer stated that Ordinance No. 953 was introduced on December 9, 1980, by a vote of 4-Ayes, 1-Absent, and that it was now in order to adopt the ordinance. The City Attorney stated that since the introduction of this Ordinance on December 9, 1980, an application had been received for a card room permit. He advised that Council should adopt Ordinance No. 953 on an urgency basis, based on the following findings: WHEREAS, the operation of card rooms attracts gamblers and bertors from outside of the community, increases the potential for police problems, encourages gambling by many who can least afford it, contributes heavily to police work load during nighttime hours when police surveillance is severely limited (thereby reducing the police services in other areas of the city), and is a nuisance to neighboring uses; and WHEREAS, the operation of card rooms has been reviewed several times by the City of Pleasanton, at which times the recommendation from the police depart- ment and other staff has been to eliminate card rooms as legal uses be- cause of the adverse effects such operations have on the community, but at which times the City Council has adopted regulations which prohibit any additional card rooms in the City while allowing the two existing card rooms to remain in operation; and WHEREAS, the existing ordinance allows two card room permits in the City, the number of card rooms in existence upon adoption of the ordinance, so as to not allow any expansion of card rooms but also to not require abate- ment of uses then lawfully in existence; and WHEREAS, one of the two card room permits has lapsed and the card room is not presently in operation~ and WHEREAS, the intent of the existing card room ordinance is to prohibit any new card rooms in the City, allowing only those in existence to remain so; and WHEREAS, amending the ordinance by reducing the number of allowable permits to one is consistent with the spirit of the ordinance itself by limiting the number of permits to the number of card rooms in existence, there being only one card room currently operating in the City; and 8. 12/23/80