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<br /> <br />(2) The term “targeted picketing” means picketing activity that is directed at a <br />particular residential dwelling or one or more occupants of a particular residential <br />dwelling, and that occurs at a particular location and/or which proceeds on a <br />definite course or route in front of or around that particular residential dwelling. <br />Section 3. Chapter 10, Article 1, Sections 10-111 and 10-112 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code <br />shall be hereby added as follows: <br />Sec. 10-111.- Distance Restrictions for Targeted Residential Picketing <br />(a) No person shall engage in picketing activity that is targeted at and is within three <br />hundred feet (300’) of the residential dwelling that is the subject of the targeted <br />picketing. <br />(b) For purposes of this Section, the distance shall be measured from the outer walls <br />of the residential structure. An attached garage shall be considered part of the <br />residential structure. <br />(c) This section shall not be interpreted to preclude picketing or general marching in <br />or through a residential area that is not targeted at a particular residential dwelling. <br />Sec. 10-112.- Penalties. <br />A. Any person violating the provisions of this section shall be guilty of a <br />misdemeanor, punishable by a fine not to exceed $1,000 and/or shall be sentenced <br />to imprisonment in the county jail for a period not to exceed six months. Each and <br />every day such a violation exists shall constitute a separate and distinct violation <br />of those sections. <br />B. The remedies provided by this section are in addition to any other legal or <br />equitable remedies. <br />SECTION 4. California Environmental Quality Act. The City Council finds that this <br />Ordinance is not subject to the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) pursuant to <br />Sections 15060(c)(2) because the activity will not result in a direct or reasonably foreseeable <br />indirect physical change in the environment and 15060(c)(3) because the activity is not a project <br />as defined in Section 15378 of the CEQA Guidelines, California Code of Regulations, Title 14, <br />Chapter 3, because it has no potential for resulting in physical change to the environment, <br />directly or indirectly and so is not a project. <br />SECTION 5. Severability. Should any provision of this Ordinance, or its application to any <br />person or circumstance, be determined by a court of competent jurisdiction to be unlawful, <br />unenforceable or otherwise void, that determination shall have no effect on any other provision <br />of this Ordinance or the application of this Ordinance to any other person or circumstance and, to <br />that end, the provisions hereof are severable. <br />SECTION 6. Effective Date. This Ordinance shall become effective thirty (30) days following <br />its adoption.