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C. The City Council hereby desires to adopt a citywide preferential parking program pursuant to California Vehicle Code Section 22507. The preferential parking program shall be referred to as the vending permit parking district. D. The parking restrictions imposed pursuant to the Santa Ana Municipal Code, Chapter 36, Article XI, and this Ordinance shall apply to any vending permit parking area so designated by appropriate signage. E. The executive director of the planning and building agency or his designee is hereby authorized by this ordinance to select appropriate vending permit parking locations and to establish up to 150 individual vending permit parking districts within the City of Santa Ana. Each individual vending permit parking district shall only be large enough to accommodate one vending vehicle. F. All vending vehicles parked in a permit parking district shall be subject to the Santa Ana Municipal Code, with the exception of the time limits established in Section 36-57. G. No person shall park any vehicle at any time on any portion of any street within the citywide vending permit parking district which signs have been erected indicating the application of permit parking restrictions, except persons and vehicles exempted from such parking restrictions. The signs may provide for the towing of vehicles parked in violation of the parking restrictions. H. The executive director of the planning and building agency is authorized to promulgate eligibility criteria for the issuance of vending parking permits to vendors, and to issue or deny such permits in accordance therewith; and to establish written rules for the vending permit parking districts. Such rules shall be designed to minimize the impacts upon the residential neighborhoods. Such impacts include but are not limited to: increased traffic, pedestrian congestion, parking shortages, litter accumulation and damage to the public parkways. Such rules may be revised from time to time, as circumstances require. Section 11. The executive director of the planning and building agency on his own authority and at his sole and absolute discretion may establish a Vending Permit Parking Advisory Committee to assist in the selection of the 150 individual Vending Permit Parking Districts and/or the implementation of this ordinance. Section 12. In adopting the amendments set forth in Sections 1 through 9 above, the City Council of the City of Santa Ana hereby finds, determines and declares as follows: A. Vending vehicles within the City of Santa Ana present public safety and welfare concerns to the residents of Santa Ana, especially the children. B. California Vehicle Code Section 22455(b) permits cities to adopt additional requirements for vending vehicles for public safety. Ordinance No. NS-2695 Page 6 of 9 50A-9