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ORDINANCE NO. NS -2471 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DELETING Section 8-120, ADDING SectionS 41-54, 41-139 AND 41-690.1 THROUGH 41-690.4 AND AMENDING SectionS 41-77 AND 41-121 OF THE SANTA ANA MUNICIPAL CODE RELATING TO THE ESTABLISHMENT, OPERATION AND AMORTIZATION OF LONG-TERM STAY BUSINESS OR TRANSIENT/RESIDENTIAL HOTELS IN THE CITY THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA ORDAINS AS FOLLOWS: Section 1: The City Council hereby finds, determines and declares as follows: On June 7, 1999, the City Council adopted Ordinance No. NS-2393 as an emergency ordinance, which banned establishment of new transient/residential hotels in the City. On July 19, 1999, the City Council adopted Ordinance No. NS-2397 as an emergency ordinance to extend the provisions of Ordinance No. NS-2393. Ordinance No. NS-2397 by its own terms expired 10 months, 15 days from the date of its adoption, unless otherwise extended. On May 16, 2000, the City Council adopted Ordinance No. NS-2429 extending the moratorium for an additional one year. In the year prior to the adoption of Ordinance No. NS-2393 the Police Department has shown that transient/residential hotel uses, as defined herein, experience a significant higher numbers of calls for service, compared to those facilities which are not transient/residential hotels. Subsequent police data, covering the two years since the adoption of this Ordinance, have confirmed this fact. Reports and news articles have demonstrated the deleterious effect that living in such hotels have had on children. The City's zoning code does not differentiate currently between hotels catering to long-term stay business guests or transient/residential hotels. The City Council desires to update the zoning code to provide, in limited circumstances and on a case-by-case basis, for the possible establishment of new long-term stay business hotels in the City catering to guests for longer than a few days but for up to a month or more, together with design and development standards for such hotels. Any existing hotels in the City that would qualify as long-term stay business hotels would be unaffected by this ordinance, except as provided pursuant to the existing standards of Article VI of Chapter 41 of the Code, any such existing hotel would have to obtain a CUP and be included in a SD or SP zoning district before Ordinance No. NS-2471 Page 1 of 10