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<br />Ordinance No. NS -XXXX <br />Page 2 of 8 <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the TZC provides new mixed-use zoning for properties contained <br />within its boundary while creating industrial overlay zones allowing properties being <br />used as industrial uses at the time of its adoption to continue to be governed by <br />industrial zoning districts until such time that properties were converted to the mixed - <br />use zones allowed by the TZC; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, Senate Bill (SB) 1000 went into effect in 2018, requiring local <br />governments to identify environmental justice communities, called “disadvantaged <br />communities”, in their jurisdictions and address environmental justice in their general <br />plans through facilitating transparency and public engagement in the planning and <br />decision-making processes, reducing harmful pollutants and the associated health risks <br />in disadvantaged communities, and promoting equitable access to health-inducing <br />benefits such as healthy housing options; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the City of Santa Ana completed a comprehensive update of its <br />General Plan in April 2022; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the Office of the Attorney General of the State of California was <br />actively involved in ensuring Santa Ana’s General Plan update complied with all aspects <br />of SB 1000 prior to its adoption; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, as required by SB 1000, update of the General Plan and its <br />associated land use plan identified and addressed long standing environmental justice <br />issues throughout all of its elements, which include 77 implementation actions aimed at <br />reducing harmful pollutants and associated health risks in disadvantaged communities ; <br />and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, numerous policies of the General Plan are inconsistent with the <br />present, irreconcilable land use pattern of the TZC. Specifically, these policies include <br />Policy LU-1.1 (Compatible Uses), Policy LU-3.8 (Sensitive Receptors), Policy LU-3.9 <br />(Noxious, Hazardous, Dangerous, and Polluting Uses), Policy LU-3.11 (Air Pollution <br />Buffers), Policy LU-4.3 (Sustainable Land Use Strategies), Policy LU-4.6 (Healthy Living <br />Conditions), Policy CM-3.2 (Healthy Neighborhoods), Policy EP-1.9 (Avoid Conflict of <br />Uses), and Policy CN-1.5 (Sensitive Receptor Decisions), which are targeted at <br />correcting past land use planning practices that have placed an unequitable <br />environmental and health burden on certain neighborhoods now termed disadvantaged <br />communities; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the industrial overlay zones in the TZC perpetuate past planning <br />practices of locating industrial uses, or other noxious and unwanted uses, in close <br />proximity to communities of color; and <br /> <br />WHEREAS, the Logan neighborhood is the oldest Mexican and Mexican - <br />American neighborhood in Santa Ana and one of the oldest in Orange County, and one <br />of the few places where Mexicans and those of Mexican descent were allowed to buy