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<br /> <br />SECTION 2. Chapter 10, Article 1, Section 10-110 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code shall be <br />hereby amended and restated to read as follows: (new language is underlined and deleted <br />language is stricken): <br />Sec. 10-110. - Picketing of private residences. <br />(a)It is unlawful for any person to engage in picketing before of about the residence or dwelling <br />of any individual, where such picketing is focused on that particular residence or dwelling.(b)In <br />enacting this section, the city council finds and determines as follows:(1)The protection of the <br />well-being, tranquility and privacy of the home is a significant government interest.(2)Picketers <br />who focus upon a particular residence or dwelling generally do not seek to disseminate a <br />message to the general public but to intrude upon the targeted resident and to do so in an <br />especially offensive way.(3)Such picketers inherently and offensively intrude on residential <br />privacy.(4)The purpose of this section is to protect and preserve the home through assurance that <br />members of the community enjoy in their homes and dwellings a feeling of well-being, <br />tranquility and privacy. <br />Sec. 10-110- Targeted Residential Picketing. <br />(a) Definitions <br />For purposes of this Chapter, the following definitions shall apply. <br />(1) The term “residential dwelling” means any permanent building situated in the <br />City of Santa Ana that is being used by its occupants solely for non-transient <br />residential purposes. <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 />Section 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 of <br />the residential structure. An attached garage shall be considered part of the residential <br />structure. <br />(c) This section shall not be interpreted to preclude picketing or general marching in or <br />through a residential area that is not targeted at a particular residential dwelling.