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CITY COUNCIL MEETING DATE:
REQUEST FOR
COUNCIL ACTION
CLERK OF COUNCIL USE ONLY:
AUGUST 21, 2006
TITLE:
ORDINANCE AMENDING CHAPTER 36
OF THE SANTA ANA MUNICIPAL CODE
ESTABLISHING SPEED LIMITS FOR
CITY STREETS
APPROVED
o As Recommended
o As Amended
o Ordinance on 1 st Reading
o Ordinance on 2nd Reading
o Implementing Resolution
o Set Public Hearing For
CONTINUED TO
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FILE NUMBER
RECOMMENDED ACTION
Adopt an ordinance amending Chapter 36 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code
establishing speed limits on certain streets and portions of streets in
the City.
ENVIRONMENTAL AND TRANSPORTATION ADVISORY COMMITTEE (ETAC) RECOMMENDATION
Accept the Citywide Speed Limit Study and recommend to City Council that
an ordinance amending Chapter 36 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code
establishing speed limits on certain streets and portions of streets in
the City be adopted; by unanimous vote at the meeting of July 13, 2006.
DISCUSSION
To enforce speed limits on City streets using radar, the
Vehicle Code requires that the City conduct new speed surveys
years. The prior study was approved in 2001, based upon
surveys. Last year, the City hired a consultant, Albert
Associates, who has completed this 2006 study according to
set forth by the State.
California
every five
2000 speed
Grover and
regulations
The study has recommended speed limits based upon four major factors: (1)
the geometric characteristics of the roadways (including pedestrian and
bicycle activity), (2) speed surveys using radar, (3) accident rate
comparisons of actual versus the average accident rates that typically
occur for each type of roadway in the City, and (4) any roadway
characteristics not readily apparent to motorists.
For this study, approximately 177 segments within the City's arterial and
collector (also referred to as commuter) street network were surveyed
based on the Federal Highway Functional Classification Map. This map
determines which street should or shouldn't be included in the speed
survey.
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Ordinance Amending Chapter 36
Of Santa Ana Municipal Code
August 21, 2006
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In order for the courts to uphold speeding tickets written by the Santa
Ana Police Department (SAPD), each ticket must be able to withstand the
scrutiny of the courts. This study report contains and documents
sufficient information in compliance with State law to justify the posted
speed limit.
Based upon the study results, no change in the posted speed limits is
recommended at 140 locations of the 177 locations studied throughout the
City. The speed limit is recommended to be decreased at 16 locations,
increased at 20 locations, and newly established at one location as shown
in Table 1. The study and recommendations have been reviewed and are
supported by SAPD. Once the ordinance is amended, the corresponding
changes to the posted speed limits on the affected streets will be
modified.
ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT
There is no environmental impact associated with this action.
FISCAL IMPACT
Funds for the installation of speed limit signs estimated at $10,000 are
available in the Maintenance Division's account for Operations
Improvements (account no. 11-623-6391).
APPROVED AS TO FUNDS AND ACCOUNTS:
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Finance & Mgmt. Services Agency
James G. Ross
Executive Director
Public Works Agency
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Alton Avenue Susan and Greenville 40 45 Increase
Edinger Avenue West City Limit E/O Euclid and Richardson 40 45 Increase
Santa Ana River and Fairview 40 45 Increase
First Street Townsend and Flower 35 40 Increase
Flower and Birch 35 40 Increase
Birch and Standard 35 40 Increase
Limit 35 40 Increase
Fourth Street Mortimer and McCla 30 35 Increase
Greenville Street Edinger and Warner 35 30 Decrease
Warner and Sunflower/Wimbledon 40 35 Decrease
Lake Center Drive Harbor and Susan 35 40 Increase
Main Place Drive Bedford and Broadway 30 35 Increase
Main Street MainPlace/Memory and 17th 35 30 Decrease
I st and Chestnut 30 35 Increase
Chestnut and Edinger 30 35 Increase
Edinger and Warner 40 35 Decrease
Warner and Goetz 45 40 Decrease
Goetz and MacArthur 45 40 Decrease
MacArthur and Sunflower 45 40 Decrease
McFadden Avenue Newhope and Harbor 45 40 Decrease
Harbor and Fairview 45 40 Decrease
Fairview and Raitt 40 35 Decrease
Raitt and Bristol 40 35 Decrease
Bristol and Flower 35 30 Decrease
Newho e Street Westminster and 1st 35 40 Increase
Pullman Street 35 40 Increase
35 40 Increase
Ritche Street 35 40 Increase
Santa Ana Boulevard Raitt and Bristol 40 35 Decrease
Bristol and Flower 40 35 Decrease
Flower and Ross 40 35 Decrease
Santa Clara A venue Lincoln and Grand 40 35 Decrease
Seventeenth Street Fairview and Buena/East Ci Limit N/A 40 Establish
Warner Avenue Grand and SR-55 40 45 Increase
SR-55 and Redhill 40 45 Increase
Westminster Avenue Euclid and Newhope 40 45 Increase
Newho e and Clinton 40 45 Increase
Table 1
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ORDINANCE NO. NS-
AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA
REVISING THE PRIMA FACIE SPEED LIMITS
FOR STREETS IN THE CITY AS SET FORTH IN
ARTICLE VII OF CHAPTER 36 OF THE SANTA
ANA MUNICIPAL CODE
THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA DOES ORDAIN AS
FOLLOWS:
SECTION 1: That Article VII, consisting of sections 36-227 through 36-279, of
Chapter 36 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code, as revised by Ordinance No. NS-2486, is
hereby repealed.
SECTION 2: That the Santa Ana Municipal Code is hereby amended by adding
a new Article VII, consisting of sections 36-227 through 36-271, to Chapter 36 of the
Santa Ana Municipal Code, which said article reads as follows:
ARTICLE VII. PRIMA FACIE SPEED LIMITS
Sec. 36-227. Prima facie speed limits in general.
The City Council of the City of Santa Ana determines and declares, upon the
basis of engineering and traffic surveys made on or after January 17, 2006, which
surveys are public records on file in the offices of the Public Works Agency of the city,
that the prima facie speed limits specified in those sections are reasonable, safe and
most appropriate to facilitate the orderly movement of traffic upon the streets and
portions of streets specified in those sections, which streets and portions of streets
would otherwise be subject to the prima facie speed limits established in the California
Vehicle Code.
These prima facie speed limits shall be effective when appropriate signs giving
notice thereof are erected upon the streets and portions of streets to which they pertain.
The provisions of this article shall not apply to any twenty-five (25) mile per hour
prima facie speed limit which is applicable when passing a school or the grounds
thereof.
Sec. 36-228. Alton Avenue.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Alton Avenue is
as follows:
Between Susan Street and Greenville Street
Between Greenville Street and Bristol Street
Between Main Street and Standard Avenue
45
45
40
Ordinance
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Sec. 36-229. Bear Street.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Bear Street are
as follows:
Between Sunflower Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard
Between MacArthur Boulevard and Alton Avenue
Between Alton Avenue and Segerstrom Avenue
40
40
40
Sec. 36-230. Bristol Street.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Bristol Street are
as follows:
Between Hesperian/SR 22 EB On-Ramp & Santa Clara Ave. 45
Between Santa Clara Avenue and Seventeenth Street 45
Between Seventeenth Street and Civic Center Drive 40
Between Civic Center Drive and Walnut Street 35
Between Walnut Street and McFadden Avenue 40
Between McFadden Avenue and Edinger Avenue 40
Between Edinger Avenue and Warner Avenue 40
Between Warner Avenue and Segerstrom Avenue 40
Between Segerstrom Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard 40
Between MacArthur Boulevard and Sunflower Avenue 40
Sec. 36-231. Broadway and Broadway Place
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Broadway and
Broadway Place are as follows:
Between MainPlace Drive and Seventeenth Street
Between Seventeenth Street and Civic Center Drive
Between Civic Center Drive and First Street
Between First Street and McFadden Avenue
Between McFadden Avenue and Edinger Avenue
Between Edinger Avenue and Main Street
(250 feet North of Warner Avenue)
40
35
35
30
30
30
Sec. 36-232. Cabrillo Park Drive.
The speed limit (in miles per hour) for the following portion of Cabrillo Park Drive
is as follows:
Between Seventeenth Street and Fourth Street
35
Sec. 36-233. Cambridge Street.
The speed limit (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Cambridge Street
is as follows:
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Between the North City Limit (NCL)/Route 22
and Fairhaven Avenue
40
Sec. 36-234. Chestnut Avenue.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Chestnut Avenue
are as follows:
Between Main Street and Standard Avenue
Between Standard Avenue and Grand Avenue
Between Grand Avenue and the East City
Limit (ECL)/Elk Lane/Main Street
30
35
35
Sec. 36-235. Civic Center Drive.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Civic Center
Drive are as follows:
Between Fairview Street and Bristol Street
Between Bristol Street and Flower Street
Between Flower Street and Broadway
Between Broadway and French Street
Between French Street and Poinsettia Street
35
35
35
35
25
Sec. 36-236. Dyer Road.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Dyer Road are as
follows:
Between Flower Street and Main Street
Between Main Street and Halladay Street
Between Halladay Street and Route 55 Freeway
Between Route 55 Freeway and Barranca
Parkway/Red Hill Avenue
40
40
40
40
Sec. 36-237. Edinger Avenue.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Edinger Avenue
are as follows:
Between the West City Limit (WCL) east of
Euclid Street and Richardson Street
Between Santa Ana River (WCL) and Fairview Street
Between Fairview Street and Raitt Street
Between Raitt Street and Bristol Street
Between Bristol Street and Flower Street
Between Flower Street and Main Street
45
45
35
35
40
40
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Between Main Street and Standard Avenue
Between Standard Avenue and Ritchey Street
Between Ritchey Street and the East City Limit (ECl)
40
45
45
Sec. 36-238. Euclid Street.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Euclid Street are
as follows:
Between Westminster Avenue and First Street
Between First Street and the South City Limit
(SCl)/lenhardt Avenue
45
45
Sec. 36-239. Fairhaven Avenue.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Fairhaven
Avenue are as follows:
Between Lincoln Avenue and Grand Avenue
Between Grand Avenue and Linwood Avenue
Between Linwood Avenue and Greengrove Street
East City Limit (ECl)
35
40
45
Sec. 36-240. Fairview Street.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Fairview Street
are as follows:
Between Route 22 EB Off-Ramp and Fifth Street
Between Fifth Street and Edinger Avenue
Between Edinger Avenue and Warner Avenue
Between Warner Avenue and Alton Avenue
Between Alton Avenue and Sunflower Avenue
45
45
45
45
45
Sec. 36-241. Fifth Street.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Fifth Street are
as follows:
Between Euclid Street and Harbor Boulevard
Between Harbor Boulevard and Fairview Street
Between Fairview Street and Hawley Street
35
35
35
Sec. 36-242. First Street.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of First Street are
as follows:
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Between the West City Limit (WCl) west of
Euclid and Newhope Street
Between Newhope Street and Harbor Boulevard
Between Harbor Boulevard and Townsend Street
Between Townsend Street and Flower Street
Between Flower Street and Birch Street
Between Birch Street and Standard Avenue
Between Standard Avenue and Tustin Avenue/the East
City Limit (ECl)
40
40
40
40
40
40
40
Sec. 36-243. Flower Street.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Flower Street are
as follows:
Between Seventeenth Street and Santa Ana Boulevard 35
Between Santa Ana Boulevard and Bishop Street 35
Between Bishop Street and Warner Avenue 35
Between Warner Avenue and Sakioka Drive/Sunflower Avenue 40
Sec. 36-244. Fourth Street.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Fourth Street are
as follows:
Between Mortimer Street and McClay Street
Between McClay Street and Route 5 Freeway
Between Interstate 5 Freeway and Route 55 Freeway
35
35
40
Sec. 36-245. Grand Avenue.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Grand Avenue
are as follows:
Between the North City Limit (NCl)/ SR 22
Ramps and Fairhaven Avenue
Between Fairhaven Avenue and Santa Clara Avenue
Between Santa Clara Avenue and Seventeenth Street
Between Seventeenth Street and First Street
Between First Street and McFadden Avenue
Between McFadden Avenue and Edinger Avenue
Between Edinger Avenue and Warner Avenue
Between Warner Avenue and Dyer Road
40
40
40
40
45
45
45
45
Sec. 36-246. Greenville Street.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Greenville Street
are as follows:
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Between Edinger Avenue and Warner Avenue
Between Warner and Sunflower/Wimbledon
30
35
Sec. 36-247. Halladay Street.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Halladay Street
are as follows:
Between Warner Avenue and Dyer Road
Between Dyer Road and Alton Avenue
35
35
Sec. 36-248. Harbor Boulevard.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Harbor Boulevard
are as follows:
Between Westminster Avenue and Fifth Street
Between Fifth Street and First Street
Between First Street and a point six hundred (600) feet
south of Kent Avenue
Between the city limits of Santa Ana at Santa Ana River
(N/O Warner) and Segerstrom Avenue
Between Segerstrom Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard
45
40
40
45
45
Sec. 36-249. Hazard Avenue.
The speed limit (in miles per hour) for the following portion of Hazard Avenue is
as follows:
Between Euclid Street and Harbor Boulevard
35
Sec. 36-250. Lake Center Drive.
The speed limit (in miles per hour) for the following portion of Lake Center Drive
is as follows:
Between Harbor Boulevard and Susan Street
40
Sec. 36-251. Lincoln Avenue.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portion of Lincoln Avenue
are as follows:
Between Fairhaven Avenue and Santa Clara Avenue
Between Santa Clara Avenue and Seventeenth Street
Between Seventeenth Street and Washington Avenue
35
35
35
Ordinance
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Sec. 36-252. Lyon Street.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portion of Lyon Street are as
follows:
Between First Street and McFadden Avenue
Between McFadden Avenue and Edinger Avenue
Between Edinger Avenue and Saint Andrew Place
35
35
35
Sec. 36-253. MacArthur Boulevard.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portion of MacArthur
Boulevard are as follows:
Between the West City Limit (WCl) at
Harbor Boulevard and Fairview Street
Between Fairview Street and Main Street
Between Main Street and the East City Limit (ECl)
at SR 55
40
40
40
Sec. 36-254. Main Place Drive.
The speed limit (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Main Place Drive
is as follows:
Between Main Street/Owens Drive and Bedford Street 35
Between Bedford Street and Main Street/Town & Country Road 35
Sec. 36-255. Main Street.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Main Street are
as follows:
Between the North City Limit (NCl) at SR 22
and Seventeenth Street
Between Seventeenth Street and First Street
Between First Street and Chestnut Avenue
Between Chestnut Avenue and Edinger Avenue
Between Edinger Avenue and Warner Avenue
Between Warner Avenue and Goetz Avenue
Between Goetz Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard
Between MacArthur Boulevard and Sunflower Avenue
30
35
35
35
35
40
40
40
Sec. 36-256. McFadden Avenue.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of McFadden
Avenue are as follows:
Ordinance
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Between the Sail Street/West City Limit (WCl)
and Euclid Street
Between Euclid Street and Newhope Street
Between Newhope Street and Harbor Boulevard
Between Harbor Boulevard and Fairview Street
Between Fairview Street and Raitt Street
Between Raitt Street and Bristol Street
Between Bristol Street and Flower Street
Between Flower Street and Main Street
Between Main Street and Standard Avenue
Between Standard Avenue and Grand Avenue
Between Grand Avenue and the East City Limit (ECl)
45
45
40
40
35
35
30
35
35
35
35
Sec. 36-257. Memory Lane.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Memory lane are
as follows:
Between Santa Ana River/West City Limit (WCl)
and Bristol Street
Between Bristol Street and Flower Street
Between Main Street and the North City Limit (NCl)/
Parker Street
40
35
35
Sec. 36-258. Newhope Street.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portion of Newhope Street
are as follows:
Between Westminster Avenue and First Street
Between First Street and Edinger Avenue
40
35
Sec. 36-259. Pullman Street.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portion of Pullman Street are
as follows:
Between Warner Avenue and Dyer Road
Between Dyer Road and Garry Avenue
40
40
Sec. 36-260. Raitt Street.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Raitt Street are
as follows:
Between First Street and Willits Street
Between Willits Street and McFadden Avenue
Between McFadden Avenue and Edinger Avenue
30
35
40
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Between Edinger Avenue and Saint Gertrude Place
Between Saint Gertrude Place and Warner Avenue
Between Warner Avenue and Segerstrom Avenue
Between Segerstrom Avenue and Alton Avenue
Between MacArthur Boulevard and Sunflower Avenue
40
40
40
40
35
Sec. 36-261. Ritchey Street.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Ritchey Street
are as follows:
Between McFadden Avenue and Edinger Avenue
Between Edinger Avenue and Wright Street
40
40
Sec. 36-262. Santa Ana Boulevard.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Santa Ana
Boulevard are as follows:
Between Raitt Street and Bristol Street
Between Bristol Street and Flower Street
Between Flower Street and Ross Street
Between Ross Street and French Street
Between French Street and Santiago Street
Between Santiago Street and Grand Avenue
35
35
35
30
35
35
Sec. 36-263. Santa Clara Avenue.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Santa Clara Avenue are
as follows:
Between Lincoln Avenue and Grand Avenue 35
Between Grand Avenue and Wright Street 40
Between Wright Street and Tustin Avenue 40
Between Tustin Avenue and East City Limit (ECL)/Route 55 40
Sec. 36-264. Segerstrom Avenue.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Segerstrom
Avenue are as follows:
Between Santa Ana RiverlWest City Limit (WCL)
and Spruce Street
Between Spruce Street and Flower StreeUDyer Road
40
40
Sec. 36-265. Seventeenth Street.
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The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Seventeenth
Street are as follows:
Between Fairview Street and East City Limit 40
Between Fairview Street and Bristol Street 40
Between Bristol Street and Flower Street 40
Between Flower Street and Main Street 40
Between Main Street and WrighUEastside Street 40
Between WrighUEastside Street and East City Limit (ECl) 40
Sec. 36-266. Standard Avenue.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Standard Avenue
are as follows:
Between First Street and Chestnut Avenue
Between Chestnut Avenue and McFadden Avenue
Between McFadden Avenue and Edinger Avenue
Between Edinger Avenue and Warner Avenue
30
30
30
35
Sec. 36-267. Susan Street.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Susan Street are
as follows:
Between Harvard Street and Pendleton Avenue
Between Warner Avenue and MacArthur Boulevard
Between MacArthur Boulevard and Sunflower Avenue
35
35
35
Sec. 36-268. Third Street.
The speed limit (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Third Street is as
follows:
Between lacy Street and Spurgeon Street
30
Sec. 36-269. Tustin Avenue.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Tustin Avenue
are as follows:
Between North City Limit (NCl)/Fairhaven Avenue
and Twentieth Street
Between Seventeenth Street and Fruit Street
Between Fruit Street and the South City Limit (SCl)
north of First Street
40
40
40
Ordinance
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Sec. 36-270. Warner Avenue.
The speed limits (in miles per hour) for the following portions of Warner Avenue
are as follows:
Between the West City Limit (WCL)/Santa Ana River
west of Harbor Boulevard and Fairview Street
Between Fairview Street and Raitt Street
Between Raitt Street and Bristol Street
Between Bristol Street and Flower Street
Between Flower Street and Main Street
Between Main Street and Grand Avenue
Between Grand Avenue and the Route 55 Freeway
Between the Route 55 Freeway and Red Hill Avenue
45
45
40
40
40
40
45
45
Sec. 36-271. Westminster Avenue
Between Euclid Street and Newhope Street
Between Newhope Street and Clinton Street
45
45
SECTION 3: 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 ordinance. The City Council of the City of Santa Ana hereby
declares that it would have adopted this ordinance and each section, subsection,
sentence, clause, phrase or portion thereof irrespective of the fact that anyone or more
sections, subsections, sentence, clauses, phrases, or portions be declared invalid or
unconstitutional.
SECTION 4: 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 hereof, nor be construed as
affecting any of the provisions of such ordinance relating to the collection of any such
license or penalty or the penal provision 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.
ADOPTED this
day of August, 2006.
Miguel A. Pulido
Mayor
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APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Joseph W. Fletcher, City Attorney
By:
Kylee Otto
Assistant City Attorney
AYES: Councilmembers
NOES: Councilmembers
ABSTAIN: Councilmembers
NOT PRESENT: Councilmembers
CERTIFICATE OF ATTESTATION AND ORIGINALITY
I, PATRICIA E. HEALY, Clerk of the Council, do hereby attest to and certify the
attached Resolution No. 2006- to be the original resolution adopted by the City Council
of the City of Santa Ana on
Date:
Ordinance
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Clerk of the Council
City of Santa Ana
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