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Shin, Richard <br />From: <br />Sent: <br />To: <br />Subject: <br />Good morning, <br />Miguel Lozano <MLozano@nationalcityca.gov> <br />Thursday, September15, 2022 12:10 <br />Shin, Richard <br />RE: Lifting Ban on Cruising <br />We do currently have an ordinance that bans cruising in our city. There has been push by the local low riding <br />community to repeal the ordinance. They have gone as far as creating a "low rider coalition" that has been working with <br />our city council to negotiate the repealing of the ordinance. Our city council came to an agreement back in May to do a <br />test run of allowing cruising on Friday's as a test pilot to see what issues may arise. The lowrider coalition was granted a <br />permit to cruise for a designated time frame during that day as well as one Friday each month for the next three <br />months. The permit was supposed to cover approximately 50 cars and about 100 spectators. The temporary use permit <br />did not have any police resources calculated into the permit. <br />The end result was the cruise was put on as planned and over 250 cars showed up to the event with more than 500 <br />spectators. Businesses complained that spectators took over their parking lots without contributing to the <br />business. Numerous vandalisms occurred to surrounding businesses, fights broke out, calls of 417 came in and traffic <br />was severely impacted well into 11 pm which was over 2 hours past the agreed upon time. <br />The city council went back to the negotiation table with the low rider coalition and laid out a plan that would use police <br />resources to provide extra security. There was a significant cost associated with the new permit rules up in the area of <br />515k. The coalition claimed the cost to put on a monthly cruise was too astronomical and went as far as reaching out to <br />the media and making a statement that the city and the police department were trying to gouge the low rider coalition. <br />National City has historically had issues with low rider back in the 90s. Since that time there have been measures taken <br />to curb the cruising by changing the environmental design as well as implementing the cruising. Some of the issues that <br />plagued the last event that was put on are similar to the ones that plagued the events in the 90s. <br />We had a certain member of local car club try to put on unauthorized cruising events back in 2020 at the peak of <br />Covid. Those events were put on in our Mile of Cars area where all the car dealerships are located. The event drew <br />large crowds as well as hundreds of vehicles that impacted the car dealerships and traffic well into our neighboring <br />city. We saw numerous issues with drinking in public, dui drivers and recreational marijuana use by the <br />spectators. One of the challenges we as a department face is that there are members on our city council that are <br />making the push for the repeal of the cruising ordinance and given its an election year the push has been a strong one in <br />order to garner votes. <br />I hope this helps you out. Please let me know if there is any other info I can provide to you. <br />Miguel Lozano <br />From: Shin, Richard [mailto:RShin@santa-ana.org] <br />Sent: Thursday, September 15, 2022 9:03 AM <br />To: Miguel Lozano <MLozano@nationalcityca.gov> <br />Subject: Lifting Ban on Cruising <br />1