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ZOA No. 2024-02 & AA No. 2024-03 (Transit Zoning Code Amendments Supplemental <br />Staff Report to February 24, 2025 Planning Commission Staff Report) <br />March 6, 2025 <br />Page 2 <br />3 <br />3 <br />6 <br />7 <br />BACKGROUND <br />On February 24, 2025, the Santa Ana Planning Commission held a duly noticed public <br />hearing on amendments proposed for the Transit Zoning Code (TZC), ZOA No. 2024-02, <br />the companion Zoning Map amendment, No. 2024-03, and the Addendum to TZC SD-84 <br />Final EIR. Upon hearing all testimony, the Commission closed the public hearing, held <br />discussion, provided direction to staff, and continued the item to a special meeting <br />scheduled for March 6, 2025. The Commission requested that staff conduct and provide <br />certain deliverables for their further consideration of the proposed amendments, in order <br />to render a recommendation to the City Council on the proposed TZC amendments. The <br />three requested actions for staff were as follows: <br />1) Conduct an additional community meeting collectively, with interested parties in <br />attendance at the hearing, including residents, businesses, and property owners, <br />to facilitate further input on the proposed amendments; <br />2) Prepare a financial analysis to address potential impacts to the City as a result of <br />adopting the proposed amendments; and <br />3) Provide a legal briefing related to potential challenges that may result from <br />adoption of the proposed amendments. <br />DISCUSSION <br />The actionable items requested by the Commission have been addressed by staff and <br />are summarized below. <br />Community Meeting – March 3, 2025 <br />Staff held the requested additional community meeting with interested parties, including <br />business owners, property owners, residents and others, on Monday, March 3, 2025, from <br />5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Santa Ana Regional Transportation Center (SARTC) First <br />Floor Conference Room (1000 E. Santa Ana Blvd.) to garner additional feedback about <br />the proposed changes. For a summary of the meeting, meeting format, and conclusions <br />from the meeting, please refer to Exhibit 1. <br />As a result of the input received at that meeting, combined with the prior analysis of the <br />proposed amendments as outlined in the February 24, 2025, Planning Commission staff <br />report, staff proposes making clarifying edits as well as text edits to the Ordinance <br />presented to the Planning Commission on February 24, 2025, as provided in Exhibit 2 <br />(Clarifications to ZOA No. 2024-02). Specifically, the clarifications address typographical <br />errors as well as the emergent themes from the March 3rd community meeting related to <br />hours of operation and clarifying that nonconforming and “legal” nonconforming are one <br />and the same term for the purposes of implementing the TZC. <br />  <br />Planning Commission 1 – 2 3/6/2025 <br />