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. . . J. from a parked vending vehicle attracts the attention of children and adults, oftentimes crossing mid-block without regard to traffic. Vending vehicles shall be located at least fifty feet (50') from a marked or unmarked crosswalk to protect pedestrians and to insure the safe flow of traffic. The separation distance from the crosswalk provides additional visibility to vehicles thereby enhancing the public safety for vehicles pedestrians and bicyclists on city streets. Vending Vehicles are conducting businesses within primarily residential zones. This business creates impacts to the residential neighborhoods, such as increased traffic, pedestrian congestion, and litter accumulation. 1. To help minimize these impacts, the vending vehicles will be equipped with on-board refuse containers large enough to contain all trash and refuse generated by the operation of the vehicle. Additionally, trash and refuse generated by the vending vehicle business will be picked-up within a fifty-foot (50') radius of the outside of the vehicle before such vehicle is moved. The Request for Council Action for this ordinance dated June 21, 2004, and the Chief of Police written recommendation dated June 16, 2004, shall by this reference be incorporated herein, and together with this ordinance, any amendments or supplements and the oral testimony before the City Council, shall constitute the necessary findings for this ordinance. The City Council has considered all of the written and oral testimony offered concerning whether to adopt this ordinance. Based upon this record the City Council finds that the standards set forth in this ordinance, and each of them, are necessary to protect the public safety and welfare of the children and residents of the City of Santa Ana associated with vending vehicles. The police power regulations, such as those employed in this ordinance, are legitimate, reasonable means of accountability to help protect the public safety and welfare of the children and residents of the City of Santa Ana. All provisions of the Santa Ana Municipal Code, which are repeated herein, are repeated solely in order to comply with the provisions of section 418 of the Charter of the City of Santa Ana. Any such restatement of existing provisions of the Code is not intended, nor shall it be interpreted, as constituting a new action or decision of the City Council, but rather such provisions are repeated for tracking purposes only in conformance with the Charter. In accordance with the California Environmental Quality Act, the recommended action is exempt from further review. Categorical Exemption Environmental Review No. 2004-157 will be filed for this project. K. 2. L. M. N. o. P. Q. Section 4. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion of this ordinance is for any reason held to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any court Ordinance No. NS-2655 Page 5 of 6