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ZOA No. 2024-02 & AA No. 2024-03 (Transit Zoning Code Amendments) <br />May 6, 2025 <br />Page 4 <br />driveway standards, lot dimensions, and parking alternatives. The amendment did not <br />include changes to land uses or permit types within the TZC. <br />When originally adopted, the TZC provided new zoning for all properties contained within <br />its boundary. However, some properties with existing M1 and M2 zoning and/or existing <br />industrial businesses, also received an overlay district designation which allowed for the <br />continuation of industrial land uses on those properties. The development of mixed -use <br />on these properties consistent with the new zoning they received as part of the TZC <br />adoption is at the discretion of the property owner. In support of the TZC, the City Council <br />also approved a General Plan amendment, establishing numerous mixed -use General <br />Plan land use designations for the entirety of the TZC. However, due to the continued <br />application of the industrial overlay zones within the TZC, the implementation of the new <br />General Plan land use designations immediately resulted in zoning inconsistencies and <br />land use conflicts with the new General Plan. <br />Since establishment of the TZC, and specifically in the Logan and Lacy neighborhoods, <br />industrial uses have remained, changed ownership, undergone expansions or <br />intensifications, and have continued to create numerous land use conflicts and <br />disturbances that affect surrounding residential communities. Specifically, in the Logan <br />neighborhood alone, these land uses create quality of life, health and safety, and other <br />trespass issues for residential properties that often directly abut these industrial land <br />uses. These issues include odors, dust, traffic, noise, vibrations, and other documented <br />impacts that have taken place for nearly a decade and a half despite the change to the <br />new General Plan land use designations. <br />Historically Disadvantaged Communities and Senate Bill (SB) 1000 <br />Prior to the adoption of the TZC, the City permitted industrial uses within the Logan and <br />Lacy neighborhoods in close proximity to sensitive land uses such as residences and <br />schools. The Logan neighborhood represents one of Orange County's oldest barrios, <br />established as early as 1886, and was one of the few areas where Mexicans and those <br />of Mexican descent could purchase land due to racially restrictive covenants during the <br />first half of the 20t" century. Further, as a neighborhood, the area was established before <br />the modern practice of separating or regulating impactful land uses, also known as <br />zoning. The Logan neighborhood itself was largely settled by 1900, before the practice of <br />zoning was enshrined by Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty Co. in 1926. By that time, the <br />neighborhood contained a mix of residential, industrial, commercial, and related land <br />uses, in some cases side -by -side, with issues further exacerbated by rail lines, fuel <br />storage depots, and the construction of the Santa Ana Freeway (1-5) between 1947 and <br />1956. <br />Comprehensive data analysis and mapping tools generated by the Office of <br />Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) and California Environmental <br />Protection Agency (CaIEPA), the Centers for Disease Control/Agency for Toxic <br />Substances and Disease Registry (CDC/ATSDR), the United States Environmental <br />Protection Agency (EPA), and California Healthy Places Index (HPI) reveal concerning <br />