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CUP No. 2025-02 – Ole City Market ABC License (1623 W. Seventeenth Street) April 14, 2025 Page 6 of 9 4 9 6 9 customers. Additionally, the introduction of the new grocery market will also strengthen the commercial viability and enduring success of the establishment. Goal EP-1 promotes a dynamic local economy that provides and creates employment opportunities for all residents in the City. Policy 1.2 encourages new job-producing businesses and retention of existing job-producing businesses that provide living-wage employment opportunities. The project is consistent with Goal EP-1 and Policy 1.2, as the proposed use and proposed improvements would help generate additional economic growth and stability in the City by further activating an underutilized site and helping generate sales tax revenue. Furthermore, the proposed project would help create a job-producing establishment thereby providing employment opportunities to Santa Ana residents. Goal EP-3 promotes a business friendly environment where businesses thrive and build on Santa Ana’s strengths and opportunities. Policy 3.7 promotes a solution-based customer focus in order to facilitate additional development and investment in the community. Moreover, Policy 3.8 encourages a balance of fiscal and qualitative community benefits when making land use decisions. The project would be consistent with Goal EP-3 and Policies 3.7 and 3.8, as it provides for a new grocery store tenant at an existing underutilized commercial center and promotes a use that would provide services to the community and visitors. Moreover, proposed use is anticipated to improve economic growth by generating additional sales tax revenue. This additional revenue would improve the financial health of the business itself and contribute to the broader economic sustainability of the City. Lastly, the sale of alcohol beverages for off-premises consumption at this site will provide an additional location in Santa Ana where residents can purchase alcohol, which will ensure local spending. Public Convenience or Necessity Analysis PCN requests are governed by Section 41-645.5 of the SAMC and Section 23958.4 of the Business and Professions Code. A PCN determination is required for this project because Ole City Market is located in a census tract where the ratio of existing retail off-premises alcohol licenses to population in the census tract exceeds the ratio of retail off-premises alcohol licenses to population in the county, resulting in an over concentration as determined by ABC. Ole City Market is located in Census Tract No. 753.02, which ABC allows a maximum of two off-premises alcohol licenses, while there are currently four active licenses per ABC. Per ABC, an “undue concentration” would occur if more than two off-premises licenses were within this census tract. Table 3 below and Exhibit 5 identify the location of the existing off-premises alcohol licenses. The licensed establishments are located intermittently throughout the census tract, with all four of the licensed premises located approximately less than 0.3 miles from the proposed Ole City Market. Table 3: Off-Premises ABC Licenses within Census Tract No. 753.02 Premises Location License Type Distance (1) Parks Dairy 1927 W. Seventeenth Street Type 20 0.3 miles (2) Target 1441 W. Seventeenth Street Type 21 0.2 miles (3) Smart & Final 1523 W. Seventeenth Street Type 21 0.1 miles (4) CVS 1545 W. Seventeenth Street Type 21 0.1 miles PCN requests are governed by Section 41-645.5 of the SAMC, and certain findings must be made in order to grant the PCN. Conversely, the inability to make these findings would result in a denial.