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<br />ORDINANCE NO. NS-2695 <br /> <br />AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY <br />OF SANTA ANA ADOPTING A CITYWIDE VENDING <br />PREFERENTIAL PARKING PROGRAM <br /> <br />THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DOES ORDAIN AS <br />FOLLOWS: <br /> <br />Section 1. The City Council of the City of Santa Ana hereby, finds, determines <br />and declares as follows: <br /> <br />A. Section 22507 of the Vehicle Code of the State of California authorizes a <br />city to prohibit stopping, parking or standing of vehicles on certain streets <br />and to establish a permit system exempting certain vehicles from the <br />prohibition. <br /> <br />B. Vending Vehicles are conducting businesses within primarily residential <br />zones. This business creates impacts to the residential neighborhoods, <br />such as increased traffic, pedestrian congestion, and litter accumulation. <br />The citywide vending permit parking district is necessary in order to <br />protect neighborhood integrity against excessive intrusion of vending <br />vehicles which are parked in these residential neighborhoods throughout <br />the day and night. <br /> <br />C. The City Council hereby desires to adopt a citywide preferential parking <br />program pursuant to California Vehicle Code Section 22507. The <br />preferential parking program shall be referred to as the vending permit <br />parking district. <br /> <br />D. The parking restrictions imposed pursuant to the Santa Ana Municipal <br />Code, Chapter 36, Article XI, and this Ordinance shall apply to any <br />vending permit parking area so designated by appropriate signage. <br /> <br />E. The executive director of the planning and building agency or his designee <br />is hereby authorized by this ordinance to select appropriate vending <br />permit parking locations and to establish up to 150 individual vending <br />permit parking districts within the City of Santa Ana. Each individual <br />vending permit parking district shall only be large enough to accommodate <br />one vending vehicle. The executive director of the planning and building <br />agency in the selection of the individual vending permit parking districts <br />should be guided by the following: <br /> <br />1. The property owner(s) immediately behind the vending permit <br />parking district should be permitted a reasonable time frame in <br /> <br />50A-22 <br /> <br />Ordinance No. NS-2695 <br />Page 1 of 4 <br />