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EXHIBIT 1 community as a whole that the City consider regulations to protect affordable housing withinthe City, including, but not limited to, rent stabilization regulations applicable to residential real property and mobilehomes. S.The Request for Council Action for this ordinance dated September21,2021, shallbe incorporated hereinby this reference, and together with this ordinance, any amendments or supplements, and oral testimony,shall constitute the necessary findings for this ordinance. T.The City Council finds, determines and declares that the current and immediate threat to thepublic health, safety and welfare of the City and its residents necessitates the immediate enactment of the ordinance. The facts constituting such urgencyare set forth in this Section 1, paragraphs A-S,of this ordinance. Section 2.The recitals andstatements of fact set forth in the preamble to this ordinance are true and correct, constitute a substantive part of this ordinance, and are incorporated herein by this reference. Section 3.Section8-1998of the Santa Ana Municipal Code isdeleted inits entirety. Section 4.Division 5 is hereby added to Article X (Property Maintenance)of Chapter 8 (Buildings and Structures) of the Santa Ana Municipal Code to read as follows: Division 5.RENT STABILIZATION Section 8-1998.1Prohibited Increases. (a)Increases in rent on residential real property or mobilehomespaces in the City of Santa Ana in excess of three percent (3%), or eighty (80%) of the change in the Consumer Price Index, whichever is less, and more than one rent increase in any twelve(12) month period, are prohibited, unless expressly exempt under the Costa-Hawkins Rental Housing Act codified in Dbmjgpsojb!Djwjm!Dpef section 1954.50, et seq., or the Mobilehome Residency Lawcodified in Dbmjgpsojb!Djwjm!Dpef sections 798, et seq. If the change in the Consumer Price Indexis negative, no rent increase is permitted.The term Consumer Price Index means, at the time of the adjustment calculationcompleted by the City pursuant to subsection (b), the percentage increase in the United State Consumer Price Index for all Urban Consumers in theLos Angeles-Long Beach-Anaheim Metropolitan Area published by the Bureau of Labor Statistics, not seasonally adjusted, for the most recent twelve (12) month period ending prior to the calculation pursuant to subsection (b).A violation of this section occurs upon the service of notice or demand for a prohibited increase in rent.