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WHEREAS, the City of Santa Ana has consistently demonstrated leadership in access to alternative means of acquiring household groceries and food through deliveries, pickup, mobile vending, food delivery, and to -go ordering by enacting legislation that permits and regulates these activities, specifically: a. Ordinance No. NS-1654 (1982), as amended and updated from time to time, allowing and regulating home occupations through the home occupation permit process, with continued compliance with Assembly Bill (AB) 1616, the California Homemade Food Act of 2012, commonly referred to as the "Cottage Food Law"; and b. Ordinance No. NS-2133 (1991), as amended and updated from time to time, allowing and regulating pushcarts to vend food on sidewalks in a safe and responsible manor, the first of its kind in Orange County; and c. Executive Order 5-2020 and City Council Resolution No. 2022-055, which authorized outdoor dining in accordance with the "City of Santa Ana: Guide for Outdoor Business Operations" and that allowed for mobile food vending in certain city -owned parking lots; and Ordinance No. NS-3033 (2022), allowing and regulating outdoor dining on permanently private property, following the sunset of temporary COVID-19 regulations allowing the same; and e. Ordinance No. NS-3034 (2022), allowing and regulating mobile food trucks on private property subject to certain standards for time, place, and manner; and WHEREAS, the progressive nature of these policies and programs have cultivated a dynamic, local entrepreneurial climate and promote economic opportunities in the Santa Ana community; and WHEREAS, the presence of multiple disadvantaged, at -risk, and vulnerable communities in Santa Ana, as identified by the General Plan Update of 2022, necessitates the City's obligation to ensure that food products, including freshly -prepared foods, is safely produced and sold in a manner that does not exacerbate community health concerns; and WHEREAS, the Santa Ana community's reduced access to healthcare and health services through traditional policy coverage, access to medical clinics, medical professionals, and treatment necessitates the City's obligation to ensure that food products, including freshly -prepared foods, is safely produced and sold; and NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The Recitals set forth above are true and correct. Resolution No. 2023-012 Page 5 of 7