Item 22 - Transit Zoning Code Amendments Resolution

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ZOA No. 2024-02 & AA No. 2024-03 (Transit Zoning Code Amendments) April 1, 2025 Page 5 Senate Bill (SB) 1000 went into effect in 2016, requiring local governments to address pollution and other hazards that disproportionately impact low-income and communities of color within their jurisdiction to proactively plan for and address environmental concerns when developing and updating components of the General Plan. The City and community worked to ensure that the new General Plan included SB 1000 requirements of addressing EJ through facilitating transparency and public engagement in the planning and decision -making processes, reducing harmful pollutants and the associated health risks in disadvantaged communities, and promoting equitable access to health -inducing benefits such as healthy housing options. Of note, the City's new General Plan mixed - use land use designations in the TZC area were largely left intact, including those in the Lacy and Logan neighborhoods, when the General Plan Update was adopted in 2022. Environmental Justice/Disadvantaged Communities (DACs) Profile: Logan and Lacy Neighborhood Impacts For the Logan and Lacy neighborhoods, incompatible land uses allowed from past zoning decisions, including the industrial overlay zones, have perpetuated the practices of locating industrial uses or other noxious and unwanted uses near communities of color. The Logan and Lacy neighborhoods have a population of 5,907 within 1,564 households, a median household income of $56,864, average household size of nearly four persons, median age 27 years, and per -capita income of $23,495. Seventy-four percent are renter - occupied units based on demographic forecasts for 2023. Nearly 25% of the population is under 14 years of age, and 14% are 55 years of age and older. Nearly 3% of the population attended up to 121h grade with no diploma, over 31 % are high school graduates, and nearly 97% of the working population over 16 years of age are employed.' This data illustrates that the Logan and Lacy neighborhoods are within the second and third highest scored census tracts in Santa Ana, each with a composite score of 90% or greater, ranking in the 90th percentile or greater of census tracts in the State, and identified as "disadvantaged communities" by the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) in its CalEnviroScreen model. Failure to address ongoing irreconcilable land use conflicts that are the target of this proposed ordinance will further exacerbate the ongoing demographic and environmental justice challenges that these two neighborhoods within the TZC have grappled with since their founding. Code Enforcement and Immediate Ongoing Issues In the past 12 months, the Code Enforcement Division conducted investigations at over 35 commercial and industrial properties within the TZC. Currently, the City's Code Enforcement Division has 21 active open cases that have been issued Notices of ' ESRI Community Analyst summary data, which utilizes U.S. Census Bureau sources (2017-2021 American Community Survey & 2020 Decennial Census Data), enhanced by ESRI's forecasts and aggregations, covering demographics like population, income, age, and employment.