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practices that have placed an unequitable environmental and <br />health burden on certain neighborhoods now termed <br />disadvantaged communities; and <br />•The industrial overlay zones in the TZC perpetuate past <br />planning practices of locating industrial uses, or other noxious <br />and unwanted uses, in close proximity to communities of color; <br />and <br />•The Logan neighborhood is the oldest Mexican and Mexican­ <br />American neighborhood in Santa Ana and one of the oldest in <br />Orange County, and one of the few places where Mexicans and <br />those of Mexican descent were allowed to buy land due to <br />restrictions and covenants based on race during the first half of <br />the 2oth century; and <br />•The construction of Santa Ana (1-5) Freeway through Santa Ana <br />in the 1950s resulted in a number of families being displaced <br />through the demol ition of single-fam ily homes in the <br />northeastern portion of the Logan neighborhood; and <br />•In the 1970s a proposed expansion of an arterial highway along <br />Civic Center Avenue would have demo lished a significant <br />portion, if not all, of the Logan neighborhood; and <br />•The Logan and Lacy neighborhoods are within the second and <br />third highest scored census tracts in Santa Ana, each with a <br />composite score of 90 percent or greater, ranking in the 90th <br />percentile or greater of census tracts in the State, and identified <br />as "disadvantaged communities" by the Office of Environmental <br />Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) in its CalEnviroScreen <br />model; and <br />•Assembly Bill (AB) 686 requires local juris dictions to take <br />deliberate actions to explicitly address, combat, and relieve <br />disparities to disadvantaged communities, su ch as Logan and <br />Lacy neighborhoods, resulting from past patterns of <br />segregation, disinvestment, and planning practices; and <br />•The updated land use plan in the Land Use Element of the <br />General Plan does not designate any properties within the TZC, <br />including the Logan or Lacy neighborhoods, as industrial; rather, <br />are designated as varying intensities of District Center or Urban <br />Neighborhood land use designations-both of which are <br />inconsistent with industrial uses; and <br />Ordinance No. NS-3064 <br />Page4of11 <br />  <br />  <br />City Council 10 – 32 4/1/2025