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ZOA No. 2022-04 (Outdoor Dining) & ZOA No. 2022-05 (Mobile Food Trucks) November 14, 2022 Page 2 3 0 5 3 On June 14, 2020, the City Council signed Resolution No. 2020-055 amending EO No. 5- 2020 and temporarily allowing mobile food trucks to operate on private properties. In addition, the “Take It Outside” guidelines were updated to include operational standards for mobile food trucks. On December 15, 2020, the Orange County Board of Supervisors awarded a $500,000 grant to the City for the use of developing safe outdoor dining opportunities for businesses operating along or within 500 feet of First Street and Seventeenth Street. The City utilized these funds to retain a vendor to design, construct, and install 22 outdoor dining patios for eating establishments located on private property. On May 3, 2022, the City Council directed staff to prepare an outdoor dining ordinance to create a regulatory and permitting process that expands outdoor dining opportunities on private properties citywide in order to enhance the user experience, to create healthy, sustainable, and vibrant neighborhoods, and to support the local economy. In addition, the City Council directed staff to evaluate best practices and present the City Council with options and recommendations on permanent regulations for the operation of mobile food trucks on private property prior to December 31, 2022. ZOA No. 2022-04 for Outdoor Dining Chapter 41 of the SAMC currently regulates outdoor dining areas as an ancillary use to eating establishments and requires that such area provide off-street parking at a rate of eight parking spaces per 1,000 square feet of gross floor area if the area of outdoor dining exceeds 25 percent of the gross floor area of the eating establishment or 1,000 square feet, whichever is smaller. This current parking requirement can make outdoor dining costly and infeasible for small businesses. No additional specific outdoor dining regulations are currently prescribed within Chapter 41 of the SAMC. ZOA No. 2022-04 proposes to establish a streamlined administrative permit process and flexible regulations pertaining to the placement, development, and operation of outdoor dining areas that benefit eating establishments and enhance the pedestrian ambiance of the City. In addition, it proposes provisions to ensure that such areas do not adversely impact adjacent uses, properties, and surrounding neighborhoods. The proposed regulations build upon those regulations established by the Take It Outside guidelines. In addition, ZOA 2022- 04 proposes to reduce the off-street parking requirements for outdoor dining areas. Table 1 on the following page illustrates the proposed regulations which would be applicable to all new permanent outdoor dining areas citywide. 11/14/2022 Planning Commission 3 – 2