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<br />clarify new regulations and document impacts like noise and illegal dumping. The City <br />also conducted community engagement in the Logan and Lacy Neighborhoods including <br />an Environmental Justice ber 3, <br />2025, and presentations to Garfield Elementary parent leaders and over 50 community <br />leaders at a KidWorks Family Town Hall on November 6 and November 18, 2025, <br />respectively. Feedback from these sessions highlighted a need for better tools to monitor <br />industrial operations near schools and residential areas and clear guidance for residents <br />to report quality-of-life concerns. <br />In response, staff is developing a dual-track reporting strategy that empowers residents <br />by training them to use the mySantaAna app to report immediate quality-of-life concerns <br />while connecting them directly with external agencies like the Southern California Air <br />Quality Management District (SCAQMD) and the Department of Toxic Substances <br />Control (DTSC), two agencies with the legal authority to investigate industrial permit <br />violations or other compliance issues. <br />To inform future implementation activities, the City released a Request for Proposals <br />(RFP) for a "Noxious Uses" Study, which will establish a three-phase technical framework <br />to identify nonconforming businesses that meet the "noxious use" definition, rank those <br />businesses based on their objective impacts on the environment and resident quality-of- <br />life, and conduct a detailed economic evaluation to establish a formal amortization period. <br />This data-driven approach creates the necessary legal groundwork to systematically <br />phase out high-impact industrial operations while maintaining an accountable process for <br />sion, the City will integrate these findings with <br />updated legal mechanisms to initiate the amortization process for a priority noxious use <br />business - marking a major milestone in resolving historical land-use inequities and <br />restoring the quality of life for Santa Ana residents. <br /> Cool Pavement Program <br />To mitigate the impacts of the urban heat <br />island effect, the City used $125,000 in <br />Community Development Block Grant <br />funding to launch a "Cool Pavement" <br />program. The Neighborhood Initiatives and <br />Environmental Services Division <br />collaborated with the Public Works <br />Park Services Section to rehabilitate 41,400 <br />square feet of the Madison Park parking lot <br />»Above: Picture of a crew coating asphalt to prepare <br />and 10,400 square feet of the Campesino <br />for the installation of cool pavements. <br />Park parking lot. Completed in 2025, these <br />improvements replaced traditional asphalt with advanced paving materials to reflect solar <br />energy and reduce surface temperatures, while also upgrading ADA compliance and <br />restriping both areas. <br />16 <br /> <br /> <br />