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2O2 ORDINANCE NO. NS-2397 6. The City Council has directed that all studies be pursued as expeditiously as is practicable, and has directed staffto expeditiously pursue appropriate revisions to the Code. Since the adoption of the emergency ordinance, the Planning Department has undertaken extensive study of other public entities regulations of residential hotels for possible revisions to the Code. 7. In order to prevent the frustration of said studies and the implementation thereof, the public interest, health, safety and welfare require the immediate enactment of an ordinance extending the emergency ordinance. The absence of this ordinance would create a serious threat to the orderly and effective implementation of any Code amendments, general plan amendments or specific plan amendments which may be adopted by the City as a result of the studies, in that new or converted residential hotels within the City may be in conflict with or frustrate the contemplated updates and revisions to the Code, general plan or specific plans. Moreover, permitting residential hotels to be established during said studies and implementation would create impacts on the public health, safety and welfare that the City Council, in adopting this ordinance, has found to be unacceptable. 8. The City Council finds, determines and declares that the current and immediate threat to the public health, safety and welfare of the City and its citizens necessitates the immediate enactment of an ordinance extending the emergency ordinance. The facts constituting such an urgency are set forth in paragraphs 1-7, inclusive of this ordinance. 9. The City Council further finds that this is a matter of City-wide importance and is not directed towards nor targeted at any particular parcel of property or proposed use. NOW THEREFORE, THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DOES HEREBY ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1: Prohibition. No residential hotel shall be established nor shall any existing hotel or motel be converted to a residential hotel in the City of Santa Ana. A residential hotel shall be defined as any hotel or motel that rents, lets, or otherwise provides for compensation, 25 percent or more of the total number of rooms therein to any person, firm, partnership, corporation, association, or other business entity for occupancy which exceeds 28 consecutive days or 28 days in any 60 consecutive day period.