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20'1 ORDINANCE NO. NS- 2397 AN EMERGENCY ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA EXTENDING THE PROHIBITION ON THE CONVERSION OR ESTABLISHMENT OF ANY NEW RESIDENTIAL HOTEL The City Council of the City of Santa Ana finds, determines and declares as follows: 1. Provisions of Chapter 41 of the Santa Aha Municipal Code ("Code") that regulate hotels and motels, including but not limited to sections of the Code regulating zoning and land uses for hotels and motels, need review, study and possible revision in order to respond to recent concerns relating to impacts created by residential hotels. The current Code fails to provide for protection from the potential adverse impacts of such residential hotels, including parking, landscaping, appropriate use districts, development standards and security issues, and fail to address the needs of the City and its residents today and in the future. For this reason, on June 7, 1999, the City Council adopted Ordinance No. NS-2393 as an emergency ordinance ("the emergency ordinance") which by its own terms expires 45 days from the date of its adoption, unless otherwise extended. 2. Given these concerns, the Planning Department has requested that a review be undertaken of the current provisions of Chapter 41 of the Code as it relates to those facilities that may be defined as residential hotels. The Planning Department has expressed concerns that the aforementioned uses are not provided for in the current Code and significantly contribute to crime, health and safety concerns due to unregulated, long term occupancies. 3. The Police Department has also expressed concern that the current Code does not regulate residential hotels. Within the last year the Police Department has shown that these uses experience a significant higher numbers of calls for service, compared to those facilities which would not be residential hotels as defined in this ordinance. 4. The City Council has held a public hearing, considered all of the written and oral testimony offered concerning whether to extend the emergency ordinance, including extensive studies undertaken by other public entities. 5. Without extension of the emergency ordinance, properties in the City could quickly convert or establish themselves as residential hotels, despite the fact that the City Council has determined that the Code is in need of updating and has directed that a study be done to recommend new standards and revised Code sections to address these concems.