Resolution No. 2026-XXX
RESOLUTION NO. 2026-XXX
A RESOLUTION OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA
ANA ACKNOWLEDGING JUDGMENT IN CASE CHALLENGING
THE RENT STABILIZATION AND JUST CAUSE EVICTION
ORDINANCE
WHEREAS, on November 5, 2024, 57.63 percent of the voters of Santa Ana approved Measure CC, titled “An Ordinance of the People of the City of Santa Ana Adopting a Rent Stabilization and Just Cause Eviction Ordinance ,” Ordinance No. NS- 3073 (“Ordinance”); and
WHEREAS, on February 4, 2026, the Superior Court of California, County of Orange entered an Amended Judgment (“Judgment”) in the Orange County Apartment House Association, Inc. dba Apartment Association of Orange County v. City of Sa nta Ana, et al. case, Case No. 30-2023-01308094-CU-JR-CXC (“Litigation”), a case whereby plaintiff challenged the Ordinance on various constitutional grounds alleging four causes of action. The Judgment was entered as follows: 1) the Court granted plaintiff’s motion for summary adjudication on plaintiff’s first cause of action, and 2) the Court granted the City’s motion for summary adjudication as to the second, third, and fourth causes of action; and
WHEREAS, in granting summary adjudication as to plaintiff’s first cause of action, the Court ordered the last sentence of Section 8-3180(a) of the Santa Ana Municipal Code as stated in the Ordinance, establishing the composition of the Rental Housing Board, be severed from the Ordinance and the remainder of the Ordinance remain in effect;
NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED by the City Council of the City of Santa Ana as follows:
Section 1. City Council hereby acknowledges the Judgment entered on February 4, 2026 in the Litigation referenced above. A true and correct copy of Measure CC, Ordinance NS-3073, with strikethrough font as to the severed provision as ordered by the Court in the Judgment is attached hereto as Exhibit A. A true and correct copy of Measure CC, Ordinance NS -3073, with deletion of the severed provision as ordered by the Court in the Amended Judgment is attached hereto as Exhibit B.
Section 2. The City Clerk is hereby directed to update City records acknowledging the Court’s Amended Judgment in the Litigation and, as required by the Court, severing the last sentence of Section 8-3180(a) which read: “The Board Members of the Rental Housing Board shall be comprised of: 1) Three (3) Tenants, including at least one (1) Mobilehome Tenant; 2) Two (2) Landlords; and 3) Two (2) at-large Members with no financial interest in and no ownership of income-generating rental housing.” .
Resolution No. 2026-XXX
Section 3. This Resolution shall take effect immediately upon its adoption by the City Council, and the City Clerk shall attest to and certify the vote adopting this Resolution.
ADOPTED this _____ day of ____________, 2026.
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Valerie Amezcua
Mayor
APPROVED AS TO FORM:
Sonia R. Carvalho, City Attorney
By:
Andrea N. Garcia
Senior Assistant City Attorney
AYES: Councilmembers
NOES: Councilmembers
ABSTAIN: Councilmembers
NOT PRESENT: Councilmembers _
CERTIFICATION OF ATTESTATION AND ORIGINALITY
I, JENNIFER L HALL, City Clerk, do hereby attest to and certify the attached Resolution No. 2026-XXX to be the original resolution adopted by the City Council of the City of Santa Ana on _______________.
Date: ______________________ ________________________________ City Clerk
City of Santa Ana