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• S132 zone should be for the most difficult to serve homeless population <br />Make is easier to conduct business by not over - regulating <br />Need flexibility <br />2. Best Practices: <br />Some Orange County cities have adopted SB2 Emergency Shelter ordinances (Table of OC <br />Emergency Shelter Ordinances provided). Based on your experiences, what would you <br />consider to be the "Best Practices" within these ordinances, for possible application in Santa <br />Ana? <br />• Should not make ordinance to prevent organizations from providing services <br />• S132 should not address all needs <br />• Organization should be part of neighborhood association <br />• Create communication and relationship with Police Department <br />• Need to connect clients with housing to end homelessness <br />• Reevaluate parking standards <br />• Need multiple locations and providers <br />• Cost - effective to have single location to serve larger number of homeless persons <br />• Have "open door" policy for public <br />• Need management plan <br />• Need emergency plan — short -term solutions for infrequent situations <br />3. Creating Community — Policies and Programs: <br />What other policy and programs would you suggest to address the City's Homeless Shelter <br />and Transitional /Supportive Housing needs? <br />Find ways for cities to do their "fair share" <br />Advocate for supportive housing <br />Put policy in place to protect clients where no oversight exists <br />GROUP #2 (Facilitator: Sergio Klotz, Scribe: Terry Eggars) <br />1. Homeless Shelter Locations: <br />The City's adopted Housing Element calls for the creation of an overlay in the Light <br />Industrial zone and select Commercial zones to permit Emergency Shelters by right. How <br />best can the City implement these zone changes to serve the homeless, while maintaining <br />compatibility with surrounding existing uses? <br />2 M:\ WP51\SB2\Stakeholders\BreakOutNote AllMay23 2012Final.doe <br />