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AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF
SANTA ANA REPEALING, RENUMBERINGf AMENDINGt AND
ADDING TO, PORTIONS OF CHAPTER 41 OF SAID CODE
TO REQUIRE MINOR EXCEPTION PERMIT IN PLACE OF
CONDITIONAL USE PERMITS FOR ESTABLISHMENTS SELLING
LIQUOR OR BEER FOR CONSUMPTION ON THE PREMISES
WHICH ARE TO BE LOCATED OR OPERATED WITHIN THREE
HUNDRED FEET OF ANY PROPERTY ZONED OR USED FOR
RESIDENTIAL OR AGRICULTURAL PURPOSES.
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DOES ORDAIN
AS FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1. Chapter 41, Section 41-365 of the Santa Aha
Municipal Code is hereby amended by adding a minor exception
permit requirement to subsection (c)-(10), and by removing
subsection (c) - (16) - (v) and renumbering subsection (c)-(16)-
(vi) to subsection (c)-(16)-(v) as follows:
Sec. 41-365. Uses permitted.
Permitted uses are:
(a)
(b)
(c)
Administrative and professional offices.
Any wholly retail store, trade or service but
excluding sheet metal shops, body-fender works,
automobile paint shop, repair garages, and any
activity which includes the processing, treatment,
manufacturing, assembling, or compounding, of any
product other than that which is clearly and tradi-
tionally incidental and essential to a particular
retail activity.
Other retail or service uses including but not limited
to the following:
(1) Automobile parking lots and parking garages.
(2) Automobile sales lots, both new and used but ex-
cluding trailers, boats and tractors (semitrucks).
(3) Buildings of public assemblage limited to churches,
chapels, mortuaries and theaters.
(4) Clubs, fraternal organizations and unions.
(5) Hospitals, clinics, sanitariums, including animal
hospitals.
(6) Motels and hotels.
(7) Nurseries.
(8) Gynmasiums, outdoor miniature golf courses, regu-
lation golf courses and driving ranges.
(9) Public buildings and public utility structures in-
cluding electric distribution and transmission
substations.
(10)Restaurants, cafes, cocktail lounges and drive-in
eating establishments; provided that no such es-
tablishment selling liquor or beer for consump-
tion on the premises may locate or operate within
three hundred (300) feet of any property zoned or
used for residential or agricultural purposes with-
out first obtaining a minor exception permit. No
minor exception permit shall be required when any
property within three hundred (300) feet of a then
existing restaurant, cafe, cocktail lounge, or
drive-in eating establishment, selling liquor or
beer for consumption on the premises is subsequently
zoned or used for residential or agricultural pur-
poses.
(11) Schools and studios operated for commercial and
public purposes.
(12) Dwelling units when erected above the ground floor
of a commercial structure when the ground floor is
devoted exclusively to nonresidential use.
(13) Rest homes, convalescent homes, old-age homes and
day nurseries.
(14) Signs as follows:
(i) One single-faced nonflashing sign not more than
twenty-four (24) square feet in area pertain-
ing only to the sale, lease or hire of the
particular building, lot or premises upon
which displayed.
(15)
(16)
(ii)
Single-faced or double-faced flashing or non-
flashing signs pertaining only to business
conducted on the premises.
(iii)
(iv)
Structural alterations and additions may be made
to existing residential uses provided that such
alterations and additions will in no way increase
the number of dwelling units contained on the lot.
The following uses subject to the issuance of an
approved conditional use permit.
(i) Trailer parks.
(ii) Bill boards and advertising structures per-
taining to a business or produc not conducted
or sold on the lot upon which said sign is
displayed.
Outdoor and indoor recreational uses not set
forth in subsection (c), paragraph (8) herein-
above.
Temporary directional signs.
Adult book stores.
SECTION 2. Chapter 41, Section 41-377 of the Santa Ana Munici-
pal Code is hereby amended by adding a minor exception permit require
ment to subsection (g) thereof to read as follows:
Sec. 41-377. Uses permitted.
Permitted uses are:
(a) All uses permitted in the
(c)
(d)
(e)
(f)
(g)
C1 district but subject to
the conditions, restrictions and limitations of this
district.
Advertising signs and structures including billboards.
Carnivals and circuses, provided, however, that no
such use shall locate or operate longer than ten (10)
days within a six-month period on the same recorded
parcel.
Automotive garages including body and fender repair,
painting, and engine replacement.
Blueprinting, photoengraving, including all types of
reproduction processes.
Enclosed storage.
Nightclubs, bowling alleys, dance halls, skating rinks,
sports stadiums, arenas and outdoor theaters; provided
that no such establishment selling liquor or beer for
consumption on the premises may locate or operate with-
in three hundred (300) feet of any property zoned or
used for residential or agricultural purposes without
first obtaining a minor exception permit. No minor
exception permit shall be required when property with-
in three hundred (300) feet of an existing nightclub,
bowling alley, dance hall
(h)
(±)
(j)
(k)
(1)
(m)
(n)
skating rink, sports stadium, arena or outdoor theater,
selling liquor or beer for consumption on the premises
subsequently is zoned or used for residential or agri-
cultural purposes.
Equipmental rental yards for light machinery.
Metal shops.
Tire recapping.
Wholesale establishments as follows:
(1)
{2)
(3)
(4)
(5)
(6)
(7) Office equipment and supplies.
Truck, trailer, tractor and boat sales, both new and
used.
Research institutions and laboratories.
The following uses stlbject to the issuance of an
approved conditional use permit.
(1) All uses permitted in the Cl district that are
subject to a conditional use permit.
Automotive equipment, including parts and supplies
for machinery.
Drugs, chemicals and allied products excluding ex-
plosives and industrial chemicals.
Dry goods and apparel.
Food products.
Farm products.
Electrical and plumbing supplies.
SECTION 3. Chapter 41, Section 41-395 of the Santa Ana Municipal
Code is hereby amended by adding a minor exception permit requirement
to subsection (b) thereof to read as follows:
Sec. 41-395. Uses permitted.
Permitted uses are:
(a) Any wholly retail, wholesale or service use including
any use permitted in the P, C1, and C2 districts.
(b) Any place of assemblage for purposes of meeting,
worshipping, eating, drinking or entertainment, pro-
vided that no such establishment serving liquor or beer
for consumption on the premises be located or operated
within three hundred (300) feet of any property zoned
or used for residential or agricultural purposes with-
out first obtaining a minor exception permit. No
minor exception permit shall be required when any pro-
perty within three hundred (300) feet of a then existing
place of eating, drinking, or entertainment selling
liquor or beer for consumption on the premises is sub-
sequently zoned or used for residential or agricultural
purposes.
(c) Any advertising structure.
(d) The following uses subject to the issuance of an
approved conditional use permit:
(1) Adult bookstore.
SECTION 4. Chapter 41, Section 41-412 is hereby amended by adding
a minor exception permit requirement to read as follows:
Sec. 41-412. Uses permitted.
Permitted uses are any wholly retail structure, business,
office or service, provided that no such establishment
serving liquor or beer for consumption on the premises be
located or operated within three hundred (300) feet of any
property zoned or used for residential or agricultural
purposes without first obtaining a minor exception permit, and
except that an "adult bookstore" use shall require the
issuance of an approved conditional use permit. No minor
exception permit shall be required when any property
within three hundred (300) feet of a then existing permitted
use selling liquor or beer for consumption on the premises is
subsequently zoned or used for residential or agricultural
purposes.
SECTION 5. Chapter 41, Section 41-424 of the Santa Ana
Municipal Code is hereby amended by adding a minor exception permit
requirement to subsection (c)-(8) to read as follows:
Sec. 41-424. Uses Permitted.
Permitted uses are:
(a) Administrative and professional offices.
(b) Any wholly retail store, trade or service but exclud-
ing nurseries, sheet metal shops, body~fender works,
automobile paint shop, repair garages, and any acti-
vity which includes the processing, treatment, manu-
facturing, assembling, or compounding of any product
other than that which is clearly and traditionally
incidental and essential to a particular retail acti-
vity.
(c) Other retail or service uses including but not limited
to the following:
(1) Automobile parking lots and service stations but
excluding the sale or storage of automobiles,
trucks, trailers, boats, tractors, both new or
used.
(2) Buildings of public assemblage limited to churches,
chapels, mortuaries and theaters.
(3) Clubs, fraternal organizations and ~nions.
(4) Hospitals, clinics, sanitariums, excluding ani-
mal hospitals.
(5) Motels and hotels.
(6) Miniature golf courses but excluding all other
outdoor recreational facilities including carni-
vals and circuses.
(7) Public buildings and public utility structures
including electric distribution and transmission
substations.
(8) Restaurants, cafes, cocktail lounges and drive-in
eating establishments; provided that no such
establishment selling liquor or beer for consump-
tion on the premises may locate or operate within
three hundred (300) feet of any property zoned or
used for residential or agricultural purposes with-
out first obtaining a minor exception permit. No
minor exception permit shall be required when any
property within three hundred (300) feet of a then
existing restaurant, cafe, cocktail lounge, or
drive-in eating establishment, selling liquor or
beer for consumption on the premises is subsequent-
ly zoned or used for residential or agricultural
purposes.
(9) Schools and studios operated for commercial and
public purposes.
(10) Dwelling units when erected above the ground floor
of a commercial structure when the ground floor
is devoted exclusively to nonresidential use.
(ll) Rest homes, convalescent homes, and day nurseries.
(12) Signs permitted in the C-1 district.
(13) The printing, publishing and circulation of a
newspaper, including plant and office.
(14) Adult book store, subject to the issuance of an
approved conditional use permit.
(d) Structural alterations and additions may be made to
existing residential uses provided that such alterations
and additions will in no way increase the number of
dwelling units contained on the lot.
SECTION 6. Chapter 41, Section 41-442 of the Santa Ana Muni-
cipal Code is hereby amended by adding a minor exception permit re-
quirement to subsection (a) (1) to read as follows:
Sec. 41-442. Uses permitted.
(a) The following uses are permitted in this district,
pursuant to the provisions of section 41-444 (site development
standards):
(1) Retail sales conducted entirely within enclosed build-
ings, provided that no such establishment serving
liquor or beer for consumption on the premises may
locate or operate within three hundred (300) feet of
any property zoned or used for residential or agricu-
tural purposes without first obtaining a minor excep-
tion permit. No minor exception permit shall be
required when property within three hundred (300) feet
of a then existing retail sales establishment conducted
entirely within an enclosed building,, selling liquor or
beer for consumption on the premises/~ubsequently zoned
or used for residential or agricultural purposes.
(2)Professional offices.
(3)Personal services.
(4)Dwelling units.
(5) Resident managers' offices devoted solely to the rental
of dwelling units on the site, providing that said
offices, surrounding grounds, and any related sign
shall retain a residential character if located within
residential use areas of the site.
(6)Related uses wholly subsidiary to the above uses.
(7) Adult book stores, subject to the issuance of an ap-
proved conditional use permit.
(b) Gasoline service stations, but no other automotive re-
pair or service facilities, may be permitted by conditional use
permit, providing such service stations are integrated into the
larger site plans and providing they are accessible from the
adjacent arterial street or highway only by way of the planned
limited access serving the property as a whole.
SECTION 7. Chapter 41, Section 41-472 of the Santa Ana Munici-
pal Code is hereby amended by adding a minor exception permit require-
ment to subsection (h) (10) thereof to read as follows:
Sec. 41-472. Uses permitted.
(a) The compounding, processing, packaging or treatment
of such products as candy, cosmetics, drugs, perfumes,
pharmaceuticals, toiletries, and food products, except
the rendering and refining of fats and oils;
(b) The manufacture, compounding, assembly of articles or
merchandise from the following previously prepared
materials: aluminum, bone, brass, cellophane, camel-
back, canvas, cloth, cork, copper, feathers, felt,
fibre, fur, glass, hair, horn, latex, lead, leather,
paint, paper, plastics, precious or semi-precious
metals or stone, shell, rubber, tin, iron, steel, to-
bacco, wood and yarns:
(c) The manufacture of pottery, figurines or similar ce-
ramic products using only previously pulverized clay
and kilns fired only by electricity or gas;
(d) Foundry casting lightweight, non-ferrous metal;
(e) Petroleum and gas storage;
(f) Planing mill;
(g) machine shop or other metal working shops;
{h) The following non-industrial uses:
(1) Accessory commercial uses which are necessary
yet incidental to a permitted use under this
section:
(2) Signs shall be permitted in the manner prescribed
in Article IV of this chapter;
(3) Kennels;
(4) Laundry and dry cleaning establishments and dye
works;
(5) Public buildings and structures and public utility
buildings and electric distribution and transmis-
sion substations;
(6) Research, experimental or study laboratories;
(7) Service stations and garages;
(8) Storage and warehousing, both open and enclosed,
but specifically prohibiting wrecking yards,
junk yards and salvage yards;
(9) Wholesale distributing plants;
(10) Restaurants and employee cafeterias; provided that
no such establishment selling liquor or beer for
consumption on the premises may operate or locate
within three hundred (300) feet of any property
zoned or used for residential or agricultural purposes
without first obtaining a minor exception permit.
No minor exception permit shall be required when
any property within three hundred (300) feet of
an existing restaurant or employees cafeteria
selling liquor or beer for consumption on the
premises subsequently is zoned or used for resi-
dential or agricultural purposes.
(11) Administrative and professional offices;
(12) Structural alterations and additions to existing
residential uses p~ovided that such alterations
and additions will in no way increase the number
of dwelling units contained on the lot;
(13) The following uses subject to the issuance of an
approved conditional use permit as prescribed in
Article V of this chapter:
(a) Any retail or service use permitted in any
commercial district;
(b) Adult book store;
(c) Any storage or temporary location of new or
used buildings or houses.
SECTION 8. Chapter 41, Section 41-489 of the Santa Ana Munici-
pal Code is hereby amended by adding a subsection C3] thereto to read
as follows:
Sec.
41-489. Uses permitted.
Permitted uses are:
(a) Any use unconditionally permitted in the Mi district.
(b) Any other industrial or non-industrial use not in con-
flict with any other ordinance of the city regulating
nuisances and not listed as a conditionally permitted
use set forth in subsection (c) of this section. Noth-
ing contained herein is to be construed to permit the
use of any property for residential subdivision or any
other residential use other than permanent quarters for
a guard, custodian or caretaker.
(c) The following uses subject to the issuance of an ap-
proved conditional use permit as prescribed in article
v of this chapter.
(1) Any professional, retail or service use permitted
in the professional or commercial districts.
(2) Acid manufacturing.
(3) Automobile-wrecking yards and salvage yards.
(4) Cement, lime gypsum or plaster of paris manu-
ture.
(5) Distillation of bones.
(6) Explosives, manufacture or storage.
(7) Fat rendering and refining.
(8) Fertilizer manufacture.
(9) Garbage, offal or dead animals reduction or dumping.
(10) Gas manufacturing, including acetylene manufacture.
(11) Glue manufacture.
(12) Petroleum refining.
(13) Smelting of tin, copper, zinc or iron ores.
(14) Stockyards.
(15) Slaughter of animals.
(16) Tannery or the curing or storage of raw hides.
(17) Adult book store.
(d)
Restaurants and employee cafeterias; provided that no such
establishment selling liquor or beer for consumption on
the premises may operate or locate within three hundred
(300) feet of any property zoned or used for residential
or agricultural purposes without first obtaining a minor
~xception permit. No minor exception permit shall be
required when any property within three hundred (300)
feet of an existing restaurant or employees cafeteria
selling liquor or beer for consumption on the premises
subsequently is zoned or used for residential or agricul-
tural purposes.
(d) I SECTION 9. Chapter 41, Section 41-506 of the Santa Aha Munici-
pal Code is hereby amended by adding a minor exception permit require-
ment to subsection (a) thereof to read as follows:
Section 41-506. Uses permitted.
Permitted uses are:
(a) Any use unconditionally permitted in the M-1 District,
provided that no such establishment serving liquor or
beer for consumption on the premises be located or
operated within three hundred (300) feet of any property
zoned or used for residential or agricultural purposes
without first obtaining a minor exception permit.
No minor exception permit shall be required when any
property within three hundred (300) feet of a then exist-
ing use unconditionally permitted in the M-1 District,
selling liquor or beer for consumption on the premises,
is subsequently zoned or used for residential or agri-
cultural purposes.
(b) Any professional use unconditionally permitted in the
P District.
(c) Any other use which, in the opinion of the planning
commission, will prove compatible with the afore~
mentioned permitted uses; except that for an adult
book store use an approved conditional use permit must
be obtained.
SECTION 10. Chapter 41, Section 41-521 of the Santa Ana Munici-
pal Code is hereby amended by adding a minor exception permit require-
ment to subsection (a) thereof to read as follows:
Sec.41-521. Uses permitted.
Permitted uses are:
(a) Any retail or service use permitted in the C-3
District
provided that no such establishment serving liquor or
beer for consumption on the premises be located or
operated within three hundred (300) feet of any pro-
perty zoned or used for residential or agricultural
purposes without first obtaining a minor exception
permit. No minor exception permit shall be required
when any property within three hundred (300) feet of
a then existing retail or service use permitted in
the C-3 District selling liquor or beer for consumption
on the premises is subsequently zoned or used for resi-
dential or agricultural purposes.
(b) Beverage manufacture including bottling works.
(c) Building materials sales yard including the sale of
rocks, sand, gravel and cement mixing.
(d) Commercial laundry and dry cleaning works.
(e) Contractor's equipment storage and rental.
(f) Freight or truck terminal.
(g) Ice cream manufacture.
(h) Ice manufacture and cold storage plant.
(i) Manufacture and maintenance of billboards and other
advertising structures.
(j) Retail lumberyard including mill and sash work if
conducted entirely within an enclosed building.
(k) Veterinary hospitals and kennels.
(1) Wholesale warehouse, storage buildings and yards ex-
cluding auto wrecking and salvage yards.
(m) Woodworking shops including cabinet shops and furniture
repair shops.
(n) Handicraft manufacture.
(o) Ceramic manufacture.
(p) Pipe storage.
SECTION 11. Chapter 41, Section 41-632 is hereby amended by
adding (k) to subsection (a) (3) to read as follows:
Sec. 41-632. CONDITIONAL USE PERMIT, VARIANCE AND MINOR EXCEP-
TION APPLICATIONS-INITIATION, SCOPE
(a) In accordance with the procedures outlined in this
article, application may be made for:
(1)
(2)
(3)
Conditional use permit for a specific use of land or
buildings in a land use district wherein such use may
be so conditionally permitted.
Variance to use land or buildings in a manner at vari-
ance with the provisions of the zoning ordinance, or
in lieu of a variance.
Minor exception to obtain a waiver or modification of
those zoning ordinance provisions which pertain to the
following:
(a) Lineal dimension of yards. Modifications granted
shall not exceed by more than twenty per cent
(20%) the minimum requirements.
(b) Separation between buildings and other structures.
Modifications granted shall not exceed by more
than fifty per cent (50%) the minimum requirement.
(c) Lot coverage. Modifications granted shall not
exceed by more than twenty per cent (20%) the maxi-
mum coverage permitted.
(b)
Height of buildings. Modifications granted shall
not exceed by more than twenty-five per cent (25%)
the maximum height permitted.
(e) Signs. Area modifications granted shall not exceed
by more than twenty per cent (20%) the maximum
area permitted.
(f) Setback and future right-of-way lines.
(g) Off-street parking. Modifications granted for re-
ductions in required number of stalls shall not
exceed by more than twenty per cent (20%) the
minimum ordinance requirement.
(h) Operational standards. Modifications granted may
include minor exceptions to screening and land-
scape requirements but shall not include exceptions
to provisions pertaining to uses permitted in the
open.
(i) Walls and fences.
(j) Any other regulation that the planning commission
may from time to time declare.
(k) Any establishment serving liquor or beer for con-
s~mption on the premises to be operated or located
within three hundred (300) feet of any property
zoned or used for residential or agricultural pur-
poses.
Application for a conditional use permit, variance or
minor exception may be made by the owner or agent of
the owner of the property affected, or it may be initia-
ted by the planning department, planning commission or
council.
SECTION 12. Chapter 41, section 41-640 of the Santa Ana Munici-
pal Code is hereby amended by a~ending the procedure for review of
minor exceptions to read as follows:
Sec. 41-640. ZONING ADMINISTRATOR TO MAKE FINDING OF FACT-
REFERRAL TO PLANNING COMMISSION FOR HEARING.
In granting or denying a conditional use permit, variance
or minor exception, when authority to so act has been authorized
in the manner prescribed in section 41-630, subsection (b) of
this article, the zoning administrator shall make a written find-
ing which shall specify all facts relied upon in rendering his
decision and in attaching conditions and safeguards. A copy of
the decision together with th~ written finding of fact shall be
filed with the clerk of the ~ndil%, with the planning commission,
with the city planning department, and mailed to the applicant.
All decisions of the zoning administrator on applications for
conditional use permits and variances shall be reviewed by the
planning commission. All decisions of the zoning administrator
on applications for minor exceptions shall be final and need not
be reviewed by the planning commission, except that applications
for minor exceptions by establishments selling liquor or beer for
consumption on the premises to be operated or located within
three hundred (300) feet of any property zoned or used for resi-
dential or agricultural purposes, shall also be filed with the
Clerk of the Council and may be reviewed by the City Council
at its discretion and need not be reviewed by the Planning
Commission unless City Council requests that such decision be
first reviewed by the Planning Commission.
SECTION 13. If any section, subsection, sentence, clause
phrase or portion of this ordinance is for any reason held
to be invalid or unconstitutional by the decision of any
court of competent jurisdiction, such decision shall not
affect the validity of the remaining portions of this ordi-
nance. The City Council of the City of Santa Aha hereby
declares that it would have adopted this ordinance and each
section, subsection, sentence, clause, phrase or portion
thereof irrespective of the fact that any one or more sec-
tions, subsections, clauses, phrases or portions be dec-
lared invalid or unconstitutional.
SECTION 14. Neither the adoption of this ordinance
nor the repeal hereby of any ordinance shall in any manner
affect the prosecution for violation of ordinances, which
violations were committed prior to the effective date here-
of, nor be construed as affecting any of the provisions of
such ordinances relating to the collection of any such
license or penalty or the penal provisions applicable to
any violation thereof, nor to affect the validity of any
bond or cash deposit in lieu thereof, required to be posted,
filed or deposited pursuant to any ordinance, and all rights
and obligations thereunder appertaining shall continue in
full force and effect.
SECTION 15. The Clerk of the Council shall certify
to the passage of this ordinance and cause the same to be
published in some daily newspaper printed and published
in the City of Santa Ana.
SECTION 16. This Ordinance shall take effect thirty
(30) days from and after the date of its adoption.
PASSED AND ADOPTED by the City Council of the City
of Santa Ana at its adjourned regular meeting held on the
17%h day of July , 1972.
ATTEST:
MAYOR
CLERK OF THE COUNCIL
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
~ ~e~ttA°'r2~her s
STATE OF CALIFORNIA)
COUNTY OF ORANGE )
CITY OF SANTA ANA
SS
I, FLORENCE I. MALONE, do hereby certify that I am the
Clerk of the Council of the City of Santa Ana; that the fore-
going Ordinance was introduced to said Council at its regular
meeting hel~ on th? ~ day of__ Ju~y , 1972,
and was again considered by said Council at its meeting held
on the 17th day of Ju~¥ , 1972, and was at
said meeting passed and adopted by the following vote, to wit:
AYES~
NOES~
COUNCILMEN: Herrin~ Evans~ Markel~ Patterson,
Villa, Griset
COUNCILMEN: Yamamoto
ABSENT,
COUNCILMEN: None
CLERK OF THE COUNCIL
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
yA. WITHERS, CITY ATTORNEY