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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 <br />land due to restrictions and covenants based on race during the first half of the 20th <br />century and <br />WHEREAS, the construction of Santa Ana (1-5) Freeway through Santa Ana in <br />the 1950s resulted in a number of families being displaced through the demolition of <br />single-family homes in the northeastern portion of the Logan neighborhood; and <br />WHEREAS, in the 1970s a proposed expansion of an arterial highway along <br />Civic Center Avenue would have demolished a significant portion, if not all, of the Logan <br />neighborhood; and <br />WHEREAS, the Logan and Lacy neighborhoods are within the second and third <br />highest scored census tracts in Santa Ana, each with a composite score of 90 percent <br />or greater, ranking in the 90th percentile or greater of census tracts in the State, and <br />identified as "disadvantaged communities" by the Office of Environmental Health <br />Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) in its CalEnviroScreen model; and <br />WHEREAS, Assembly Bill (AB) 686 requires local jurisdictions to take deliberate <br />actions to explicitly address, combat, and relieve disparities to disadvantaged <br />communities, such as Logan and Lacy neighborhoods, resulting from past patterns of <br />segregation, disinvestment, and planning practices; and <br />WHEREAS, the updated land use plan in the Land Use Element of the General <br />Plan does not designate any properties within the TZC, including the Logan or Lacy <br />neighborhoods, as industrial; rather, are designated as varying intensities of District <br />Center or Urban Neighborhood land use designations —both of which are inconsistent <br />with industrial uses; and <br />WHEREAS, there are pressing and growing code enforcement complaints <br />stemming from the irreconcilable land use conflicts in the TZC. Specifically, in the Logan <br />and Lacy neighborhoods, the City's Code Enforcement Division has investigated over <br />33 commercial and industrial properties in the past nine months and currently has 17 <br />active open cases that have been issued Notice of Violations and administrative <br />citations for the following types of violations: illegal storage, land use, zoning, property <br />and landscape maintenance, unpermitted work, business license, and certificate of <br />occupancy. The close proximity of active open industrial cases during a short period of <br />time is creating a public nuisance that is draining City resources and that is harming <br />public health, safety, and general welfare of the TZC's existing and new residential <br />neighborhoods from the concentration of open code enforcement cases nearby; and <br />WHEREAS, in the Logan neighborhood, 52 industrial facilities (automotive, <br />warehouse/storage, crematory, towing yards, construction) are presently in close <br />proximity to sensitive uses monitored by external regulatory agencies such as South <br />Ordinance No. INS - 3063 <br />Page 3 of 8 <br />