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• SB2 should designate location for volunteer groups that bring in services <br />• Mobile medical—how best to provide and where? <br />• Have multi -service center for services, should be permitted in close proximity to shelters <br />• Would a micro -business (sandwich shop, retail, etc.) be allowed to operate near shelter? <br />• What percent of building will be administrative? <br />• Provide storage for belongings during day <br />• Shelters generate large amounts of trash—how should trucks, enclosures, setting <br />standards, recycling be dealt with? <br />• Are sewers and similar infrastructure already in place? <br />• What are the environmental safety issues? <br />• Has there been a meeting with business and industrial owners? <br />GROUP #3 (Facilitator: Scott Kutner, Scribe: Christina Hon) <br />1. Homeless Shelter Locations: <br />The City's adopted Housing Element calls for the creation of an overlay in the Light <br />Industrial zone and select Commercial zones to permit Emergency Shelters by right. How <br />best can the City implement these zone changes to serve the homeless, evhile maintaining <br />compatibility with surrounding existing uses? <br />• Where are homeless currently concentrated in the City? <br />• Are there any emergency shelters in Santa Ana now? What zones do they exist in now? <br />• Concern for homeless congregating in parks because lack of facilities/amenities <br />o Are the locations where people sleep and where people hang around the same? <br />• Need facilities/ places where homeless can stay all the time <br />• Transportation concern in M-1 zone to be able to move them toward services and move <br />them back to shelters <br />• Need for community acceptance - M-1 zones will mean convincing businesses and <br />meeting their resistance; residential may also resist emergency shelters <br />• Debate over the definition of emergency shelter <br />o Which homeless parties are we addressing? Thinking of specific examples like <br />those that need immediate temporary assistance vs. those that congregate around <br />the S.A. Civic Center <br />o Is it okay to be a 24 -hours emergency shelter facility? <br />Someone suggested that they must be away from residential areas <br />• In #2, someone mentioned that the hours of operations (required to leave <br />in emergency shelters in morning) encourages people to do job -searching <br />or take advantage of services <br />4 M:\WP51\SB2\Stakeliolders\Break0titNotesAilMay232012Final.doo <br />