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AGENDA ORDER Council considered Agenda RESOLUTION 78-5 17TH STREET Item 81, Petition for Delay PARKING RESTRICTIONS - CONTINUED of Parking Restrictions on Seventeenth Street, follow- ing a motion by Councilman Garthe, seconded by Councilman Ortiz, to depart from the order of the Agenda. The motion carried 5:1, with Councilman Bricken dissenting. Eugene Katnik, Attorney, 1205 North Broadway, requested Council to continue for 60 days the following resolution, which would prohibit parking on both sides of Seventeenth Street from the Santa Ana Freeway to Tustin Avenue, to become effective 180 days after adoption: RESOLUTION 78-5 - A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA PROHIBITING PARKING ON SEVENTEENTH STREET BETWEEN THE SANTA ANA FREEWAY AND TUSTIN AVENUE. CA 18 He stated that the continuance would give the businessmen affected an opportunity to make their own analysis and obtain recommenda- tions from traffic experts which would then be presented to the City Council. Resolution No. 78-5 and its related report, dated January 9, 1978, prepared by Joe Foust, were continued to March 20, 1978 on the motion of Councilman Garthe, seconded by Councilman Ortiz, and carried 5:1, with Councilman Yamamoto dissenting. REQUEST FOR REVIEW OF Vice Mayor Ward announced RESOLUTION NO. 77-140 ABORTION that in response to a NO ACTION written request dated January 5, 1978 from Paul Blachowski, 1641 West Tenth Street, Council had allotted this time to listen to residents' comments regarding Council's adoption on December 19, 1977, of Resolution No. 77-140, opposing the practice of abortion. The following people spoke against the resolution: Lyn Walker, 615 S. Main Street Richard Sharp, 809 West Myrtle Mindy Friedman, M.D., 1641 W. 10th Drucina L. Cornell, 1127-1/2 Third Street Norma Chinchilla, 401 E. Bishop The opponents to the resolution stated that women's rights and health care were not adequately considered by Council prior to adoption of the resolution; that there have always been abortions but they were only for the rich; that by adopting the resolution Council has decided that the opportunity to have abortions should be denied to poor, working and minority women, and it is an attack on their rights; that the resolution should be rescinded in favor of supporting the right of all women to have abortions at their choice; that restrictive abortion laws only eliminate the practice of legal abortion and do not eliminate the widespread practice of abortion; that legalization of abortion, under decision of the U.S. Supreme Court, has resulted in a decline in abortion deaths, reduction in maternal mortality, improvement in maternal health, lowered perinatal mortality rates and a decrease in high risk out-of-wedlock births. Many of the speakers are affiliated with abortion clinics, social services and counseling centers and spoke of their first-hand knowledge and experience with the subject. CITY COUNCIL MINUTES 29 JANUARY 16, 1978