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Council directs staff to modernize park rules to allow mobile vending, raise permit thresholds and update skate‑park language

Santa Ana City Council · February 18, 2026
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Summary

Councilmembers supported a councilmember‑requested item to update municipal code provisions governing vending in parks, permit thresholds for gatherings, and skate‑park usage (to include nonmotorized scooters), and asked staff to return with draft ordinance language and operational details on enforcement and trash management.

Councilmember Jesse Lopez introduced a request to modernize provisions of the Santa Ana Municipal Code (chapters 31 and 26) governing parks and park uses, urging changes that would allow mobile vendors (for example, paleteros), raise permit thresholds for small family gatherings and update skate park rules to…

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