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items in residential neighborhoods can increase the danger to children." 2. Many of the vending vehicles in Santa Ana, not only ice cream trucks, cater to children by offering toys and snack type items. As such, children, often unsupervised, purchase items from the vending vehicles. D. Accidents have occurred as a result of pedestrians crossing the street mid-block without regard for traffic to get to a vending vehicle. The risk to pedestrians crossing the street mid-block at night is increased due to the decreased visibility. E. The purpose of this ordinance is to regulate a business being operated within the City of Santa Ana; the purpose of this ordinance is not to regulate vehicular traffic except to protect the public safety and welfare of the residents as permitted by the Vehicle Code. F. Vending Vehicles are conducting businesses within primarily residential zones. This business creates impacts to the residential neighborhoods, such as increased traffic congestion, reduction in available parking, as well as safety concerns. 1. On order to address these impacts, the 90-minute time limit in any one location, and the separation of the vending vehicle (herein after "congestion management regulations") will reduce the impacts to parking in the neighborhood, and will provide a safer residential neighborhood. 2. Vending vehicles are typically wider than a standard vehicle, which causes them to encroach into traffic lanes. This encroachment can create visibility hazards for vehicles exiting the driveways, as well as a more dangerous situation for other vehicles and bicycles. 3. The Legislature, in adopting California Vehicle Code Section 22456(e)(3), determined that potential danger to children requires that a vehicle stopped to vend ice cream must have a minimum unobstructed view of the highway in both directions of 200 feet. In Santa Ana, children purchase from the type of vending vehicles regulated by this ordinance in addition to purchasing from ice cream trucks; for example, the September 25, 2005 Los Angeles Times article on this subject states that in Santa Ana, "parents feel comfortable sending their children to buy items [from mobile food vendors]. Remedios Arias, 32, sent her 11-year-old son to buy 10 eggs for $1 on a recent morning." 4. The use of these congestion management regulations will restrict the number of visibility-impacting vehicles on the street and thereby reduce the number of times that opposing vehicles and bicycles must enter or cross traffic lanes as they pass the vending vehicles. Ordinance No. NS-2701 Page 6 of 8 11A-6