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Demand to Stop the Unlawful Discrimination Against Individuals with Disabilities and Request for Reasonable Accommodation Page 9 of 97 C. Violation of the Welfare and Institutions Code Section 5120 The City of Santa Ana also discriminates against people with mental health disabilities by violating Welfare and Institutions Code section 5120. Per Section 5120, the City cannot discriminate "in the enactment, enforcement, or administration of any zoning laws, ordinances, or rules and regulations between the use of property for the treatment of general hospital or nursing home patients and the use of property for the psychiatric care and treatment of patients, both inpatient and outpatient." This provision, as codified in The Lanterman-Petris-Short Act, was aimed at ending the longstanding involuntary commitment of people with disabilities by ensuring that they were provided treatment and services in the least restrictive settings and in local communities instead. Welf. & Inst. Code § 5001; Welf. & Inst. Code § 5120. Here, the City's lawsuit is directly at odds with the stated intent of the Act because it seeks to prevent MHA-OC from providing mental health treatment and services at the South Main Street Site, which is part of the local community. Notably, the City itself has long recognized that the South Main Street Site is a program that is a psychiatric treatment or mental health clinic program within the meaning and intent of Welfare and Institutions Code §5120 and the Site has written confirmation from the City of Santa Ana.15 D. The South Main Street Site Does Not Violate the City's Zoning Code The City also alleges that the South Main Street Site is a multiservice center, and as such, cannot operate in a C2 General Commercial zoning district per the zoning code embodied in the Santa Ana Municipal Code. However, the City misstates its own zoning laws and the zoning for the South Main Street Site, The South Main Street site is a center that provides mental health treatment in a clinic setting. The Site is permitted by right in a C2 zone, as C2 zone incorporates, under Sec. 41-377(a), all uses permitted in the C1 district.16 The 35 April 24, 2002 City of Santa Ana letter issue confirming the application of Welfare & Institutions Code §5120 to the South Main Street Site. Attached as Ex. A. " "Uses Permitted in the C2 district.... (a) All uses which are permitted in the C1 district pursuant to section 41-365." Section 41-377(a), C2 General Commercial of the City of Santa Ana Planning and Building Agency, Planning Division (emphasis omitted). Available online at: httos://www.santa- ana.org/sites/default/files/Documents/C2 Opddf.