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ROH 09/03/13 ORDINANCE NO. NS-2848 AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA AMENDING CHAPTER 41 OF THE SANTA ANA MUNICIPAL CODE TO ADOPT THE CITY'S REGULATION OF EMERGENCY SHELTER AND TRANSITIONAL AND SUPPORTIVE HOUSING THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DOES ORDAIN AS FOLLOWS: Section 1. The City Council of the City of Santa Ana hereby finds, determines and declares as follows: A. That the City of Santa Ana seeks to be in compliance with the State of California's regulations for the allowance of emergency homeless shelters as required by State Senate Bill 2 (SB2). B. That the State of California Legislature passed SB2 (effective January 1, 2008) modifying State Housing Element law to require local planning and zoning regulations to facilitate homeless shelters. Specifically, SB2 requires all cities and counties to provide at least one zoning category in which emergency shelters can be located without discretionary approval from the local government. The zoning category must be identified in the locality's housing element, and include sites with sufficient capacity to meet the local need for emergency shelter. C. That after a thorough period of research and public involvement the following standards have been developed in order to allow emergency homeless shelters as required, while maintaining those regulations necessary to provide for public health, safety and welfare. D. The Request for Council Action for this ordinance dated August 5, 2013 shall by this reference be incorporated herein, and together with this ordinance, any amendments or supplements and the oral testimony before the City Council at this meeting, shall additionally constitute the necessary findings for this ordinance. E. All provisions of the Santa Ana Municipal Code which are repeated herein are repeated solely in order to comply with the provisions of Section 418 of the City Charter. Any such restatement of existing provisions of the Code is not intended, nor shall it be interpreted, as constituting a new action or decision of the City Council, but rather such provisions are repeated for tracking purposes only in conformance with the Charter. Ordinance No. NS-2848 Page 1 of 7