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Planning and Building Agency <br />www.santa-ana.org/planning-and-building <br />Item # 53 <br />City of Santa Ana <br />20 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, CA 92701 <br /> Staff Report <br />June 6, 2023 <br />TOPIC: Zoning Ordinance Amendment (ZOA) No. 2023-01 (Noxious Uses, Massage <br />Establishments, CUP Suspension, and Other Edits to Address Internal Inconsistencies) <br />AGENDA TITLE <br />Public Hearing: Zoning Ordinance Amendment (ZOA) No. 2023-01: Amendments to <br />Various Sections of Chapter 41 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code (SAMC) Related to <br />Increasing the Conditional Use Permit (CUP) Separation Requirement of Noxious Uses <br />from Sensitive Receptors, Update Massage Establishment Regulations, Establish a <br />CUP Suspension Process, and Other Edits to Address Internal Inconsistencies. <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />Approve first reading of an ordinance approving Zoning Ordinance Amendment No. <br />2023-01 to amend various sections of Chapter 41 (Zoning) of the SAMC. <br />EXECUTIVE SUMMARY <br />Following direction to address City Council points of discussion and requests to analyze <br />increasing the separation requirements of noxious uses from sensitive receptors and <br />creating additional regulations for massage establishments, staff has prepared Zoning <br />Ordinance Amendment (ZOA) No. 2023-01, which proposes to amend sections of <br />Chapter 41 (Zoning) of the Santa Ana Municipal Code (SAMC). The proposed <br />amendments would increase the CUP separation requirement of noxious uses from <br />sensitive receptors from 500 linear feet to 1,000 linear feet, provide updates to the City’s <br />massage ordinance to require a separation requirement from residentially zoned or <br />used properties and regulations for legal nonconforming establishments, establish a <br />CUP suspension process, and provide conforming, clarifying, and non-substantive edits <br />to typographical errors and various internal inconsistencies. <br />Planning Commission Action <br />At its regular meeting on May 8, 2023, the Planning Commission voted 7:0 to <br />recommend that the City Council adopt an ordinance approving Zoning Ordinance <br />Amendment (ZOA) No. 2023-01. Following the Planning Commission’s <br />recommendation of approval, staff have added additional, minor clarifying edits to the <br />noxious uses section to assist with implementation of the ordinance; the edits do not <br />alter the substance of the Planning Commission’s approval.