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PUBLIC HEAi~ING - (Continued) Mr. Joe Gilmaker, 308 'West Fourth street, spoke in opp0siti~on tO the adoption of the ordinance, stating he commended the City on attempting to upgrade its buildings, however, he believed that an ordinance denying a prOperty 6wn~er or citizen right to appeal to the City Council before the removal of his building was not goo~; that he thought there were a.lqt of differences in 'the new ordinance--that the old ordinance consists of approximately three pages and the new one twenty-~0ur'pages;~ t~t it Was considerably expanded; and that sometimes p,eople were unable to corn, ply with the code for financial or other reasons. The Mayor closed the public hearing. ORDINANCE NS-1148'-ADDING T© CHAPTER'8 OF THE SANTA ANA MUNiCiPAL'cODE By ADOPTING vOLUME:IV OF 'TH~ UNIFORM BUILDING COI~E, DANG~,i~OUS BUIlDinGS 1970'EDITION was kdopted on motion of Councilman l~tterson, seconded by Co~nc¢lman Yarnamoto, and carried on the follOWing r011' call:vote: AYES: Patterson, Yamamoto, Villa, Griset NOES: Evans, Herrln, Markel ABSENT: None Prior to Voting~ d'°Uncilman Evins sia[ed tha~ he C°ul~d'n~)t SUpport'the proposed: ordinance Without'pr6vi~ions fbr appe~!ing tli~'b6ard's deC{sion to C dunciL ' PUBLIC ~{EARING BUS STOPS · The Mayor ripened ~he public hearing to consider any objec- tions to the bus stops recqm- mended by the Orange'County Trarrsit 'District; and requested 'a staff report 'and r~ecorn~endation. The clerk reporte.d that Council had received copies of ail Written corm~unicatlon~ recelve~ m-the matteT; The Director of Public Works stated on ~uly 24, 1972, an agreement had been approved by the City and the Orange County Transit District which p~vided in part that the City would provide necessary bus stops and maintain them; and that his department had been working with the Transit District to establish these stops; that on November 6, 1972, Council had a~proved the expansion of a number of bus routes and the re-alignment of some existing routes' and ~that'~De6~mber il; '-1972', was 'the proposec~ ,date for the initiation of the new service; that 321 bu~ s'tOps would Be es'tallish,ed, 21~6 of which were new stops; that a letter had been prepared and sent out to every business ~r home that would Be affected~by the bus stops pointing' out the 'need for servicing the cit'i~ens of the City 5y reducing %raffic congestion and air po lluti0,n, and urging the People to go along, with the stops, for the benefit of the community; He fur[her stated~that Out of 216 locations, ~)nlY 36 objections had been received; that those Objecting had been personally .contacted and in many cases adjustments were made leaving only24 locations where the'appr0v~l of'the property owne~ tenant had not been received; that no consideration-had'been gi~ren to m,.erety moving a particular stop 100 feet away in the hope of finding someone who would not object, since every effort had been made to place bus stops at locations that would provide a minimum of disturbance; that 16 of the 24 CItY COUNCI~'MINUTES 452 DEcEMBEi{ 4, 1972