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<br />7 <br /> <br />neutrality to make informed land use decisions or beneficial to the City into the development <br />process. Require the completion of this analysis in mixed-use land use designations and in proposed <br />conversion of commercial uses to residential or mixed-use projects. Agency/Time Frame: PBA & CDA/2022 <br />Promote Health. Action LU-3.19, Page LU-72 <br />Partner with local organizations (e.g., OC Health Care Agency, Latino Health Access, Santa Ana Unified School <br />District, Garden Grove Unified School District, Orange County Environmental Justice, and the Coalition of <br />Community Health Centers) to increase blood lead testing, outreach, education, and referral services through <br />a ‘promotora’ or community peer outreach model that addresses the root causes of elevated blood lead levels <br />impacting Santa Ana residents, with special focus in environmental justice communities and for children living <br />in pre-1978 housing. Agency/Time Frame: PBA/2022 & Ongoing <br /> <br />Prevention Education. Action LU-3.21, Page LU-72 <br />Collaborate with local organizations such as Orange County Health Care Agency, and State Environmental <br />Protection Agency, and community-based environmental justice organizations to identify funds and to create <br />a Santa Ana Prevent Lead Poisoning Education Program, with special focus on disadvantaged communities <br />and pre-1978 housing stock. Agency/Time Frame: PBA/2022 & Ongoing <br /> <br />Public Health Outcomes. Action LU-3.22, Page LU-72 <br />Support the Orange County Health Care Agency in their role in investigating public complaints regarding <br />unsafe lead work practices and lead hazards wherein children are present, through enforcement of local <br />housing standards to assure healthy outcomes including for individuals and households presenting with <br />concerns about lead exposure and/or with confirmed lead levels of >3.5 ug/dL, which the Centers for Disease <br />Control and Prevention indicates as the threshold for follow-up and case management in children. <br />Agency/Time Frame: PBA/2022 & Ongoing <br /> <br />Engage EJ Communities. Action LU-3.25, Page LU-72 <br />Work with community serving organizations, neighborhood leaders, and residents to form an Ad Hoc <br />Environmental Justice Action Committee to develop ongoing EJ Community Engagement programs for existing <br />and new disadvantage EJ communities, including multilingual communication protocols. Host biannual or <br />quarterly Roundtable meetings with local stakeholders to guide and evaluate implementation of <br />environmental justice policies. Agency/Time Frame: PBA/2022 <br /> <br />Health Conditions. Action LU-3.26, Page LU-72 <br />Work with state agencies including the Department of Toxic Substances Control and South Coast Air Quality <br />District, Orange County Health Care Agency, and local stakeholders including Orange County Environmental <br />Justice and UC Irvine Public Health to identify baseline conditions for lead soil and air contamination in Santa <br />Ana, routinely monitor indicators of lead such contamination, and measure positive outcomes. Collaborate <br />with these organizations to secure grant funds for soil and air testing, and remediation (e.g., bioremediation, <br />covering, removing, air filtration), and prevention activities for residential properties in proximity to sites <br />identified with high soil lead levels of soil pollution (including sites identified with soil lead levels of 80 ppm or <br />higher), and air pollution, with a focus on Environmental Justice census tracts communities disproportionally <br />affected by soil contamination. Agency/Time Frame: PBA/2022-2024 Ongoing <br /> <br />Tenant Protections. Action LU-3.28, Page LU-73 <br />Provide information to residential tenants regarding Landlord Tenant Laws in the State, such as AB 1481, and <br />Santa Ana’s Just Cause for Tenant Eviction and Rent Stabilization ordinance that provide protections against <br />evictions for those who seek action to improve substandard housing and hazardous conditions. Agency/Time <br />Frame: PBA/2022 & Ongoing <br /> <br />