Item 20 - Second Reading of Zoning Ordinance Amendment (ZOA) No. 2024-02

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Ordinance No. NS-XXX Page 5 of 8 6. HE5.C - Healthy Neighborhoods Initiatives. Update the City’s zoning code development and operational standards for industrial zones to address incompatibility with adjacent uses, including minimum distance requirements to buffer heavy industrial uses from sensitive receptors. Conduct a study to evaluate and establish appropriate minimum distances and landscape buffers between polluting industrial uses from sensitive receptors such as residences. 7. HE44.A - Fair Housing. Ensure all City programs and activities relating to housing and community development are administered in a manner that affirmatively furthers fair housing. K. On February 24, 2025, the Planning Commission held a duly noticed public hearing to consider this Ordinance, where all interested persons were given an opportunity to be heard, and after closing the public hearing, continued taking any action on this Ordinance to a special meeting held on March 6, 2025, whereby the Planning Commission recommended approval of the Ordinance to the City Council. L. On April 1, 2025, the City Council held a duly noticed public hearing to consider this Ordinance, but the item was not heard and was continued to a date certain, May 6, 2025; M. On May 6, 2025, the City Council held a duly noticed public hearing to consider this Ordinance, but the item was not heard and was continued to a date certain, June 3, 2025; and N. On June 3, 2025, the City Council held a duly noticed public hearing to consider this Ordinance, where all interested persons were given an opportunity to be heard. Section 3. The City Council of the City of Santa Ana hereby adopts and approves the Amendment to the Official Zoning Map of the City of Santa Ana, as shown in Exhibit “A,” attached hereto and incorporated herein by reference. This decision is based upon the evidence submitted at the above said hearing, which includes, but is not limited to: the Request for City Council Action dated June 3, 2025, and exhibits attached hereto; and the public testimony, written and oral, all of which are incorporated herein by this reference. Section 4. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordinance. The City Council of the City of Santa Ana hereby declares that it would have adopted this ordinance and each section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more sections, subsections, sentences, clauses, phrases, or portions be declared invalid or unconstitutional.