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<br />REQUEST FOR <br />COUNCIL ACTION <br /> <br />~ <br />~ <br /> <br />CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE: <br /> <br />CLERK OF COUNCIL USE ONLY: <br /> <br />SEPTEMBER 6, 2005 <br />TITLE: <br />ADOPT AN ORDINANCE TO REGULATE <br />VENDING VEHICLES AND ESTABLISHING <br />A CITYWIDE VENDING PREFERENTIAL <br />PARKING PROGRAM <br /> <br />APPROVED <br /> <br />D As Recommended <br />D As Amended <br />D Ordinance on 151 Reading <br />D Ordinance on 2nd Reading <br />D Implementing Resolution <br />D Set Public Hearing For <br /> <br />~~ <br /> <br />CIT MANAGER <br /> <br />CONTINUED TO <br /> <br />j <br /> <br />.-/ <br /> <br />FILE NUMBER <br /> <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br /> <br />Adopt an ordinance regulating the operation of vending vehicles and <br />establishing a citywide vending preferential parking program pursuant to <br />California Vehicle Code Section 22507. <br /> <br />DISCUSSION <br /> <br />On July 6" 2004, an ordinance was approved establishing regulations for <br />the operation of mobile vending vehicles within Santa Ana. The ordinance <br />established hours of operation, noise restrictions, prohibited vending <br />within 500 feet of schools, parks, community centers or playground <br />facilities and established requirements for controlling trash generated <br />by sales from the vending vehicles. Although the 2004 regulations have <br />proven successful in resolving some of the problems that led to the <br />adoption of the 2004 vending ordinance, additional issues remain that <br />should be addressed. <br /> <br />While vending vehicles provide a valuable service to the residents of <br />Santa Ana, vending vehicles also create traffic hazards as well as <br />special dangers to the public safety and welfare of children and <br />residents of the City of Santa Ana. Vending vehicles not only are <br />patronized by adults, but by children as well. Many vending vehicles are <br />presently concentrated on certain streets and in certain neighborhoods. <br />This concentration of vending vehicles creates visibility problems for <br />drivers and pedestrians. Many of the vending vehicles remain in one <br />location throughout the day. In addition to the safety concerns, these <br />vending vehicles create not only parking shortages, but are also creating <br />aesthetic impacts to the residential neighborhoods such as deteriorated <br />parkways. Parkways become barren due to customers of the trucks walking <br />or standing in these parkways while purchasing goods from the vending <br />vehicles. Property owners have complained that the vending vehicles <br />refuse to move their vending vehicles to allow the parkway landscape to <br />regenerate. <br /> <br />50A-1 <br />