City Traffic Commission - Regular Meeting

Allegiance that will be led by commissioner Redding. You can all stand, please.

Please rise and join me in the pledge of allegiance. I pledge allegiance

to the flag of The United States Of America and to the republic for which it stands, one nation under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all. Great. Thank you. With that, we'll move on to item 1.2, which is the roll call.

We'll begin roll call. Vice Chair Ritchie, Commissioner Barbato. Present. Commissioner Chavarria. Present. Commissioner Redding? Present. Commissioner Freeman? Here. Commission and vice and chair, Felice?

And I'm here as well.

A quorum is present with vice chair Ritchie absent.

Great. Thank you. With that, we'll move on to item two, which is public comments. Right now, it's an opportunity for members of the public to address the Traffic Commission on matters not listed on the agenda within the subject matter jurisdiction of the commission, provided that no action may be taken on off agenda items unless authorized by law. Public comments are limited to three minutes. Do we have any public comments? This is on an off agenda item, so not an item on the

agenda? Yes,

permitted parking for I forget the exact thing is on the agenda. Not any areas, just a particular area. Thank you. Any others? Seeing none, I'll go ahead and close the public comments in and we'll move.

Okay, and you already filled out a card, correct?

Yes.

Great. If you could pronounce your name for us since we don't have it up on this section, that would be great.

I will be speaking on two other items, but I I would like to bring the attention of some I think it's AB four, the daylight parking 20 feet minimum. AB four one three, I realized passed this last year, and that says we need 20 feet distance before an approachable side for all crossing areas. It on Cypress and Almond, on the north and the south side, there is a huge amount of red lined non available parking,

and I would like to bring that

to the attention so that we can see if there is any way to reduce the 40 feet on each side where there is no, hydrant, or anything else that appears to be why there is such a long, stretch of red curbing so that no one can park on those north and south sides of Almond at the corner of Cypress. Okay. Thank you.

Great. Thank you. Anyone else? Seeing none, we'll go ahead and close the public comments, and we'll bring it back. For item three, which is the consent calendar, excuse me. All matters under the consent calendar are considered routine by the city traffic commission and will be enacted by one motion. There will be no separate discussion of the items unless the member of the commission staff or the public requests an item to be removed from the consent calendar. Anyone want to remove anything? Probably not. Seeing none, can I get a motion to approve the consent calendar?

Move to approve.

Commissioner Barbado first. Need a second?

I'll second.

Commissioner Does she ever have second? You got to go to agenda or on the floor. All right. With that, I'll go ahead and call for the motion. Or for the vote.

All right, with that, the motion passes unanimously. Great, We'll move on to item 4.1, which is a request for permit parking on both sides of Olive Street from Almond Avenue to Palmyra Avenue. We'll go ahead and go with the staff report.

Good evening, Chairman and members of the Traffic Commission. Item 4.1 is a request to implement permit parking on both sides of Olive Street from Almond Avenue to Palmyra Avenue. A property owner on the affected block of Olive Street submitted a request to implement permit parking. The subject street is outlined and shown on the area map. The city's neighborhood permit parking program provides a mechanism for protecting residential streets from external parking overflow when certain criteria is satisfied.

To streamline the permit parking application process in certain highly parked areas, the city council established seven permit parking opportunity areas. These are subject to different criteria and procedures. Specifically, the application fee and parking occupancy study are waived, and the required neighborhood support level is reduced from 75% to 55%. Since Olive Street qualifies for permit parking and is in a designated permit parking opportunity area, it does not need to meet a minimum parking occupancy level, but must receive sufficient support from property owners before a permit parking recommendation can be made. Staff circulate petitions to residents on Olive Street.

Permit parking opportunity areas are required to have 55% of votes in favor for permit parking to be considered. The table shows the results of the petition process with Olive Street achieving the required support. The aerial illustrates the proposed permit parking limits on Olive Street based on the petition results. Staff recommends the traffic commission approve the request for permit parking on both sides of Olive Street from Almond Avenue to Palmyra Avenue and forward this on to the City Council for final action. This concludes my report and I'm available to answer any questions at this time.

Great. Thank you. Any questions for staff at this time? Alright. Seeing none, I will go ahead and open up the public portion of this. First up, we have Andy Weil, and then after Andy, we have Devin McLarry.

Hello. Good evening.

My name is Andy Weil, and I live at 253 South Olive Street. Before I begin, I'd like to note today that holds a special meaning for my family. Seven years ago today, my wife and I bought our home on Olive Street. It has been our home, our neighborhood, community, and that's exactly why I'm standing here tonight. I wanna thank the City of Orange Traffic Commissioner for the opportunity to speak today.

We and my fellow neighbors are in support of the paid parking program in Old Town. We're in support of the paid parking program in Old Town. It generates revenue for the city and turns over parking more efficiently for our local businesses. That is a good thing, but it has a direct and significant consequence on our street. All Street has always attracted overflow parking that has that was manageable, but since the paid meters went in, it has become nearly impossible for residents to find a spot in front of their own homes.

Not a day goes by that we don't watch someone jump out of their car in a restaurant work apron rushing to their shift or return to their cars with bags of antiques, or simply sitting parked for hours listening to music, often smoking. Our residential street, has become a free alternative to the paid parking. What has been equally surprising is the boldness of some of these drivers. Block driveways and fire hydrants are no longer rare. They're routine. When we ask people to move, we hear things like, sorry. I'm late for work, or they can still probably get out. I'm not blocking the whole drive These aren't isolated incidents. They are the new normal on our block. My wife regularly parks blocks away and has to walk carrying groceries with our six year old.

This shouldn't be the reality for a resident in front of their own home. The residents of All Street have spoken loudly and clearly. The vote was 13 to one in favor of permit parking. It's not a close call. There's a neighborhood unified around a real and pressing need. We appreciate the commission. We appreciate this process. We very much hope that you'll support the permit plan tonight. Thank you.

Great. Thank you.

Up next is Devin. And then after Devin, we have Christopher Boy.

Hello. Thank you again for letting me speak. I am a owner of a property on Lemon, but we are in favor of Olive. We also have experienced direct impact from the paid parking. I have a 12 unit apartment building with 40 residents. And unfortunately, on Lemon, there is a higher impact to this because there are a higher number of residents in apartment buildings. And so the challenge is is that within the small square footage of

a

multifamily unit space, taking six free parking spots just over the you know, over on Almond affects a lot more people on Lemon, which is why I was also, asking you about the red lining on the Almond Street. So as you consider passing the permits for Olive, I will also be asking for the traffic commission to be doing a, what did you call it, questionnaire for the owners of the, all the properties and also to be speaking and reaching out to not just the owners, but also the residents, who are on Lemon between Almond and Palmyra. We are in favor. We also have had to circle around, and sometimes, unfortunately, sorry, we have had to park on Olive Street just to get parking, and we have to walk blocks away. Thank you again.

We appreciate it, and we are in favor.

Thank you. Up next is Christopher and then after Christopher is Vicky Lawson.

Hi. My name is CJ and I'm here on behalf of Riccadonna Salon, so right on the corner of Almond And Orange Or Olive. We support the residential parking permits. We feel like it's gonna help a lot. I mean, we work over there. We see people all the time, you know, parking and just, you know, not really caring for the the space of the residents. They're they're taking up extra space like, you know, a couple other people said. We do very well at the salon and with that comes a lot of increased traffic, a lot of extra foots, foot traffic. You know, we have a lot of clients come in. So that's what that was going to come, increased parking demand.

All we're asking is for maybe, you know, a couple parking permits for our court like openers and closers, some of our employees. So they come really early and then they tend to leave really late in the evening.

Thank you. Vicki?

Good evening. My card my speaker card says I oppose this permit parking, but it's to the exclusion of the other blocks. I live on the 300 block of South Olive, and I am in a high dense, multiunit conversion type block. And the only thing that's gonna happen here is it's gonna push the traffic to where we already don't have parking. And so as Devin said, I agree, maybe we before this is finalized and becomes a problem on the other blocks, that the same questionnaire goes out to the quad area around around the 200 block of South Olive.

I'm happy for my neighbors, and I do see it's a problem. It's a problem on my street too. So I just see it becoming a worse problem for the outlying blocks. That's what I would like you to consider. Thank you.

Thank you. Any other speakers on this item? You can come up, state your name, then when you're done sitting, after you speak for the three minutes on this item, if you could fill out a speaker card so we can document it properly.

Okay. I didn't really hear you, but my name is Glenn Stern, and I live at 252 South Olive Street. And I'm for the parking permits, but definitely not for the salon is, we've had problems with their their workers there. This gentleman's very nice. It but but the the problem is is I don't know how many chairs that they were, approved for, but they I I believe from what I was told, have way more chairs in the salon, and they have been specifically told to their workers not to park in their parking their own parking place.

And, some of the problems that you've heard, including kitting other vehicles because so they could squeeze in and only hang this much over on on the driveway. And I don't wanna sound negative, but I'm I'm telling you what the need is for our street. And so you can take one problem at a time. And I don't the approval for multiunit facilities and for commercial is a big problem. And if you would please not do that in the future or the city council or planning commission.

Thank you.

Thank you. All right.

Go ahead

and come.

If you could just state your name and then after you're done speaking, you could get a card from Francisco just so he could document it.

Hello, my name is Zachary Jones. I live at 253 South Lemon Street. That's the apartment complex that's owned by this nice lady right here, Devin. Our apartment complex is the only apartment complex on South Lyman Street that does not have dedicated parking. And so we have no choice but to park on the street.

And as the other nice lady mentioned who lives on South Olive, on the weekends or when it's particularly busy in the circle and overflow parking is particularly bad or even sometimes just when I get off work at five and get home at 05:30, I have to park on her block or I have to park on Olive. And so we're talking about removing parking at the end of South Lemon Street where there's extending that red line that's going to eliminate another parking spot. Adding permanent parking means that in all likelihood, anytime that I get home from work, I'm going to have to park two blocks away from my house. So I hope my apartment. And so I hope that going forward, if you are going to help these nice property tax paying folks out by approving permit parking for their block, that you will extend the same courtesy to folks who have no option but to park onto the Street.

Thanks.

All right. Thank you. All right. You've already spoken, so I can't have you speak again on that item. Are you going to speak on the same item, ma'am? Please come.

Hello. My name is Andrea and I live at 122 West Almond, which I noticed is one of the only places that's excluded off of the permit parking. And then everything across from me is gonna be paid parking, and the ones right in front of us are gonna turn and there's only, like, three or four spots. And they're right now, they're just free parking, but everybody parks there. So I just wanna know, would my units be included in the permit parking?

What was your address?

122 West Allman.

Is that one included in the or is that as included as the exclusion?

122 West Allman would not be included. There are no unit or addresses on West Almond being considered right now.

Even though the one, the house right next to us is approved?

So the frontage that will have permanent parking implemented, assuming that the the process continues, will be Olive Street.

I was just wondering why 124 Almond is on there and then not 122. I'm just wondering.

If you guys could pause speakers' time. Yeah. Public speaking isn't for back and forth discussion. It's for you delivering a public comment, then hopefully, they can We're gonna discuss it and staff can write down.

I think we

we were

just trying

to clarify the the address. Mhmm. So we'll we'll bring that back in in our portion because I do have a similar question on why that was, but I think we can answer that relatively quickly.

Okay, perfect. Thank you. Already filled this out. Where would I

do All right. With that, I'm going

to go ahead

and close the public portion and bring it back to the commissioners. Oh, sorry.

My name is Patrick Colliber and I live at 203, which is kind of like a duplex. So that kind of answers the question for the other person there. The house itself is connected. And I live in the front portion, which is 203 South Olive address. And then Stephanie Crowder lives in the back part of the duplex. So hopefully that will clear up the question.

Thank you. All right. Normally, don't do it this way, but I feel it's important that all of your voices get heard, especially since this is going to impact areas. So we want to make sure that everyone's heard.

Thank you so much. My name is Elizabeth Angel, and I live at 139 West Palmyra Avenue in a four unit apartment complex on the corner of Palmyra And Olive. I read the notice that was forwarded to me from my landlord, and I mostly had questions on the language that the notice included. The number of permits is one per bedroom at an address, and I was curious if our apartment complex, each unit would be considered individually. And then I also had comment on the $30 fee for three years, but only one replacement per year.

The language seemed very restricting, and I am anxious to see what the council decides to do and thank you for allowing me to participate.

Great. Thank you. All right. With that, I'm going to go ahead and close the public comments at this time and bring this item back to the commission for questions and discussion. And I'll kind of kick it off just for clarification and remind me it's been a little bit since we've done the per compartment and some new laws have come into play. And as the lady just spoke about, it's one parking pass per bedroom. Correct?

One per bedroom up to a maximum of five.

Per unit? Per unit. Correct. Okay. Great. Thank you. Any other questions for staff? None? Alright. Seeing none, we can entertain a motion.

And if the maker of the motion can just read the full title just for the record, that would be great. Alright. I'll go ahead and make a motion to approve the permit parking for on both sides of Olive Street from Almond Avenue to Palmyra Avenue. If we get a second. One second. Okay. Got it. Alright. With that, I will go ahead and call for the vote.

I'm sorry. Who who second?

Cheber. Yeah. With that, the motion passes unanimously. All right. With that, we'll move on to Item 4.2, which is a modification of an existing red curb in front of 292 South Lemon Street.

Mr. Chairman, members of the commission, I'd just like to take a moment to introduce Junie Vong. Junie is somewhat new to traffic, but she has been an employee at the City of Orange for over a decade serving in various capacities from the water division to development services and now traffic. She's done a lot for the city. We're happy to have her aboard and she will present a request for Red Curb.

Great. Thank you. Welcome to this end

of the city.

Good evening Chairman and members of the Traffic Commission. I'm Junie Vaughn. I'm an associate in the Traffic Engineering Division. Item 4.2 is a request to modify the existing red curb in front of 292 South Lemon Street so that there will be 30 feet of continuous red curb on Lemon Street. The subject area is on the 200 block of South Lemon Street near the Northwest corner of Lemon Street and Palmyra, and it is outlined on and shown on the area map.

The 200 block of South Lemon Street is a two lane roadway with a width of 44 feet. Parking is currently permitted on both sides of the street. Adjacent land uses include single family and multifamily residential. Staff received a request to remove the 18 feet of red curb that is shown in front of 292 South Lemon Street on the claim that it was installed without proper authorization. Staff found record that the red curb was indeed authorized and approved by City Traffic Commission at the 02/09/2000 meeting.

The approval was for the installation of 30 feet of parking restrictions at all approaches to the Lemon Street and Palmer intersection. During this research, staff found that sometime between 2015 and 2017, part of the original red curb was removed but never restored. Staff also found that back in November 2023, in response to visibility concerns over vehicles parking in front of the curb ramps. The city installed red curb within the pedestrian curb ramp at all four corners of the intersection. This new curb was not connected to what remained of the original red curb from 2000.

You can see, there is a 16 foot gap of unmarked curb that was left between the two red curbs. Staff has observed parked vehicles in this gap, likely due to a demand for parking on Lemon Street. This slide illustrates the proposed red curb. As you can see, it is 30 feet of continuous red curb, starting from the curb ramp with markings after it. The proposed red curb preserves the original intent of City Traffic Commission action from 2000 and does not take away from parking.

To restore the 30 feet of red curb originally approved by Traffic Commission while balancing out the neighborhood parking needs, staff recommends that the City Traffic Commission approve the modification of the existing red curb in front of 292 South Lemon Street. This concludes my report and I'm available to answer any questions at this time.

Great. Thank you. And before we jump into this one, Larry, if you wouldn't mind explaining the daylight law and where that comes into play and what triggers it or what criteria is needed to to trigger that?

Sure. I'm gonna do my best, but I may call my friend here, Lieutenant Plogg, to provide some more official clarification from a law enforcement's perspective. So the daylight law as staff understands it is basically a vehicle code provision that restricts parking within 20 feet of an approach to an intersection. The goal of which was to increase visibility for motorists as they approach the intersection. It is something that's enforceable without any additional curve markings or any action by city traffic commission.

Great.

Thank you. I don't think we need any more detail on that. Any other questions for staff at this time? No, seeing none, we'll go ahead and open this up to the public portion. Devin, you're up again.

This is directly going to affect the parking on Lemon. And what I would, 2000, I imagined that's twenty six years ago that 30 feet was, requested and being as the law in California was passed that would say 20 feet was great for adding visibility at all corners. I would ask that instead of 30 feet of red curbs in front of 292 South Lemon, that you would modify it to be the 20 feet that is in, get the law, that would suffice AB four thirteen. Thank you.

Great. Thank you. Anyone else on this item? Come back up again. You could just state your name again just so My name

is Glenn Stern, and I understand the problem with parking. And I'm kind of like for solutions is there's if you put up it's a very dangerous intersection because a lot of drivers don't know that there isn't it isn't a four way stop or they think that there is no stop. And so just if you put two stop signs in, and then you can move the red so it's easier for them to park, and then you still keep the safety. Okay? Great.

Thank you. Alright. With that, we will go ahead and close the public portion and bring it back to the commission. You just state your name and then after, if you could please fill out a card.

My name is Melissa Medina, and I am a resident of Lemon Street. I have been a resident for over fifteen years, and I have seen how this has all of the parking changes have affected our street. I'm not opposed to all of the safety, but I would like to second, miss Devin's request in maybe changing it to 20 feet instead of 30 feet because already losing that one spot, again, we are oozing out onto the other streets, and I understand, know, again, the safety, but parking is a real issue. And I love living in Orange, and we would all love to also be able to park where we live. So thank you.

All right. Anyone else? Final call. Seeing none, I'll bring it back to the Commission for discussion and entertain a motion. Commissioner Reading?

I'm just wanting to ask staff a question. Is the 30 feet, is that an arbitrary number or is that something that we're bound to? If it is not, then I do support the Speaker, Devin, and the other Speaker, I would be in support of 20 feet, which would reclaim 10 additional feet back to the community.

Can I ask kind of a part question to that? Would the reduction that 10 feet gain in actual additional parking spot? Sure.

Redding, you are not bound by the 30 feet. However, I would remind you that your predecessors did approve the 30 feet based on a recommendation from staff back in I think 2000. That was based on a fuel conditions at the time, fuel conditions that the geometry of the intersection has not changed. And so I would say the 20 feet that is described in AB413 is more of a generic dimension, whereas the 30 feet that the commission approved back in 2000 was specific to the intersection geometry at the time. And so staff does not recommend, I'm going to say, reducing that dimension arbitrarily simply because once you put in the red curb, I think there has to be a very compelling reason to remove it or to reduce it.

That said, Mr. Chairman, to answer your question, based on the result, the current configuration that's being proposed, is honoring the 30 feet that that was originally approved, but shifting it closer to the intersection. That results in 70 feet of unmarked curb. Depending on the size of the vehicles, you can fit three, maybe four cars. If we reduce the 30 to 20, that 70 that remains becomes 80. That's more of a four car length. So you may gain a car depending on how large the vehicles are. So there would be a pickup. But yes, I don't necessarily recommend doing so without further analysis. Thank you.

Any other questions? Alright. I will anyone else wants to make the motion or I'm happy to make the motion to approve the red curve? Anyone wants to second it? Second.

Emotions. You beat me. Francisco was slow on the draw there. You want to correct the motion? I motioned. Okay, removed. There you go. Perfect. All right. I'll go ahead and call for the vote.

Great. With that, the motion passes. All right. With that, we'll move on to item 4.3, which is the two hour time to parking in designated sections of the Orange Library parking lot.

Mr. Chairman, members of the commission, if it pleases the commission, I'll deliver the staff report. As everyone is aware, the Old Town Paid Parking Program went into effect in February. So far, the program has been successful in achieving the program's intent of increasing parking turnover and accessibility. However, one of the side effects is that some of the visitors looking for free parking are turning to the main library parking lot, notwithstanding remaining availability in the parking structure and other periphery lots.

Occupancy in the main library lot is noticeably higher post paid parking as you'll see on the next slide. However, implementing time limited parking can discourage non library visitors from maybe overwhelming that park library parking lot. Specifically, staff recommends implementing parking time limits in the non ADA spaces of the western side of the library lot as as shown in this this yellow polygon. Doing so would render the spaces closest to the plaza less attractive to folks who have a destination in the plaza, creating more parking opportunities for short term Discussions with library management resulted in a proposed time limit of two hours, which would be adequate for most library visits while discouraging that long term use that we're starting to see. The remainder of the lot would be would remain unrestricted and continue to be available to library users who require more time than the two hours.

If implemented, the city's parking management contractor, Ace Parking, would monitor and actively enforce the time limits. And lastly, included in the recommended action is a provision authorizing staff to modify the time limits anywhere between fifteen minutes to three hours in the future depending on how future needs shape up. That concludes my presentation. I'd be happy to answer any of your questions.

I have a

question Larry. With

the implementation of this paid parking, we have to install kiosks for the library. So you're saying it's under the management of ACE?

Sure, yes. So the library lot would not be metered. So there's no payment required. It's just that we're going to implement the time limits, which ACE will

enforce. Understood. Thank you.

Mr. Shapiro?

I have a couple

of questions about this. What's going to keep people from just moving to the back part of the parking lot now since that's an open parking space? That was the first question. Then on the backside of the library, could we make at least that road that abuts the building a permitted parking for staff and volunteers? Because the other thing I've heard from people over there is at busy times, staff can't even get in there to park. So I would like to see something with that. Then I do have another question after that.

Okay. Sure. Commissioner Freeman, could there be displacement potentially? I think the idea is that the folks who would want to utilize long term parking would be a little bit further from their destination making it less attractive. And I don't expect this to make a 100 of the overflow go away. I think one of the things that we would achieve is at least some short term parking for library patrons. The idea of staff parking was discussed with library staff. They did not identify a need at the moment, but it doesn't mean we can't revisit that in the future.

Because I think if they're already going to the library to park, another few more feet to go to the back area is not going to be that much different for them. So it's almost like a whack a mole, are we just chasing them down? It's like the same problem we're having with parking in the neighborhoods.

Sure. Yes. And you bring up a very good point. It's when we're trying to project what these footprints ought to look like and what the chain effect might be. We're dealing a lot with human behavior uncertainties and so we've got to start somewhere. And this is where I think we're recommending to start. But yes, you're absolutely right in the future the limits of these boundaries can be amended very similar to what you're describing and just based on evolving needs.

Yes, what I've noticed I do have another question, but what I've noticed too is the bigger problem is not only people parking from downtown, but St. John's using it as their private parking pickup spot. And not always being the friendliest people when they want to use that space. The other question I had though is that parking lot is listed as no parking from 11PM to 5AM. I'm wondering, can we modify that?

Because the library does not open until 10AM Monday through Saturday. If we change the parking lot to a 09:30, make it less desirable for people that are coming in for work downtown or for breakfast, it really doesn't impact the library patrons because why do they need to get there very early before the library opens? And maybe that would be another area it won't solve the problem, but another area that could be helped with that condition. Because I tried to drive by the other day just to see how many cars are in the parking lot at or 09:15, there's a lot of cars in the parking lot.

Sure. And I think it's something we're happy to look at. I think separately from this particular action. So I do believe that maybe what we're discussing kind of deviates a little bit from what was advertised in the agenda.

But I would like to have that looked at because I think that that's another tool we have to keep people from just getting there early in the morning and planting themselves for the day. There's no need. It's a parking lot designed for the library's use. And the library is not open to public, so why would we have it available? That's just thank you.

I have a couple

of quick questions, if I could.

I'll go last.

Expanding on what was just said, I was wondering, do we think about who's actually parking there? The librarian I talked to today said frequently he'll get there before the library opens and the lot's full, which leads me to believe employees are using that for businesses in Old Town. He wasn't aware that we had a parking structure that was free. So it makes me wonder, are we emphasizing the depot free parking that if they're walking to a business, maybe they could park on the other side of?

When you say employee, a city employee or a business of a local business?

Local business.

Got it. Yeah. I think in all of the public outreach that we've done with the PIOs office and with our program manager, we've been very diligent in encouraging people to use the free parking around the perimeter. Now whether they choose to do so or not, that's a little bit of our control. But yes, we push that message as often as we can.

I guess

we all have questions for this one. My question really isn't about protecting the library patrons. That's obvious. That's what we want to do. It's really if I and this is if I understood it correctly. It seems like there's some latitude for staff to later change the limit from anywhere from fifteen minutes to three hours. Is that something that would need to come back to commission where we need to spend the time and energy? Or do you have the leverage to make those decisions on your own?

Right. So if you approve that provision that delegates that authority to staff, then it would not have to that would not have to come back to the commission.

Okay. Thank you.

All right. Thank you, Commissioner Edding. I did catch that, so I did want to emphasize that as well. If we do approve this, it would not come back to the Commission for that. Would be up to staff's discretion at that time. I think this is a very interesting one. I think tonight we've seen a lot or actually almost every item is a result of the paid parking. I think we're going to continue to see items as this. And I think this one with the library seems to be kind of an important one. I'm kind of not in favor of moving this forward tonight.

I think overall, the entirety of the lot needs to be looked at and seen Timeframe imposed, I'm assuming it's nine to six, the same as for the enforcement of parking. Is it nine to six similar to

Oh, you mean the two hour restriction?

Two hour restriction? I don't think I saw that and maybe I missed it, but I don't think I saw that

in the Yeah, so if the enforcement hours are not specified, it defaults back to code. I apologize, I don't remember exactly, but it's very close to the hours I think that you

just think it may be eight, I think is what the municipal code may say, if I recall. It's been a long time since I've looked at that one. So that's kind of where I'm sitting on this one. I feel like there needs to be a little bit more kind of review of the entire lot in that situation. I know that there's available parking for staff over over here in these lots. It's kind of intended where staff parking probably for the library as well. Just curious from the library staff, what kind of was their feedback? You briefly mentioned it, no impact to them. They're getting lots of requests from their patrons.

Thank you for asking, Mr. Chairman. I was going to jump in and remind the commission that proposal was not developed arbitrarily by public works staff. It was done in conjunction with community services department, library staff, library management. There's no one size fits all solution and we felt at this time that what's being presented best balances the current needs. Again, knowing that this can continue to evolve and if we need to do something more dramatic than just adjusting the time intervals, we can always bring something back to this commission. Great. Thank you.

Any other comments? Any other motions? Can you bring back up that map again?

The

overview map of that block. I don't know why it's not showing. It's weird. Yeah. It's weird, it's not on my screen. It's not on our screens. Even if we hit view agenda. It's granny kiss, don't worry about it. And just to reiterate again, Larry, they don't think that they should be expanded any further. They feel like this is sufficient?

At the moment based on the current information they have, the current observations that they're making, this is the recommendation of the library department. If it pleases a commission, there could be maybe an approval for this and with the idea that we revisit this within a certain number of a certain timeframe. But I think it's important right now to get some parking created for those library patrons that now may be discouraged from coming to the library simply because they can't find convenient parking.

And just to follow-up on that real quick. If we were to approve this today, could we have you bring back time modification to that as well, if we did direct that as well? Just to make sure if the municipal code is not in line with the current paid parking?

Yes, that's the Commission's prerogative.

Great, thank you.

What's the timeframe? If we were to approve this, it goes to council then?

No, this does not go to council.

So what would be the timeframe for this to be enacted?

If you approve the time limit parking, it would be enacted as soon as the signs go up.

Okay. I'm so concerned that we're just going to be moving. Do we have any idea of who the cars are? Do we see the same cars every day? Do we have been tracking that type of stuff? And will we be able to as part of the study, not that we're going to be signing them or anything like that right now. The study sees those cars move to other parts of the parking lot just so we can see how we're getting an impact on there. I do agree it's great to have some space for people to come in midday and still have spaces, but I'm not sure this is going to 100% fix it. So I know we have to keep revising it. And I'd still like to, as part of the revision, look at the time limit on the parking in general.

Sure. At this moment, we don't have actual data on composition, just anecdotal evidence of who might park there during the course of a day. And as I said, and I think the Chairman alluded, a lot of the time limits in the paid parking footprint have been or well be were intended to be an iterative process. But you got to start somewhere and this is where we feel as a logical.

I agree that we have to do something to start, It's not going to end here properly. Sure.

All

right. With that, I would like to make a motion to approve this comment. Did we do public comment? Did we skip that? And you guys are not keeping me honest.

I wasn't going to let you make a motion.

Man, we got to open the public comment first. You want to come forward. Apologize for that. We all missed it. Thank you for catching that.

Just want to make a couple of comments that might be helpful to the council. In looking at the map, the east side, the horizontal east side is where the employee entrance is. That is where most of your employees park. You have long term parking in where it's highlighted in the area. There is a pass through right there and that's why you're probably there's probably a lot of parking for employees from the rest businesses in the circle.

So the area selected would be beneficial in deterring those employees, but the back the North Side is not ideal to park with and families won't park there. So you are going to have a problem with the people parking in the areas that aren't set for permit yet and I'm surprised the library hasn't spoken up about it. The plan will in time, I foresee, needing to expand that quite a bit because, as I said, the employee parking is on the North Side or East Side and the parking in the North Side is a very dark is an area that if I was going with children, I wouldn't want to park to attend the library, which I love very much. Thank you.

Thank you. And did you fill a card? Did she fill out a card? Okay, great. Thank you. Anyone else on this item? Seeing none, I'm going to close the public comments and bring it back. So with that, I would like to make the motion to approve the time limit parking in the areas designated. As part of my motion, I would like for to direct staff to bring back the time frame and then also a plan for the remainder of the lot as time to parking as well.

Just to clarify, mister chairman, when when you say

time frame, you mean to evaluate? To evaluate the time frame of when the parking enforcement should occur.

Okay. Understood.

A question follow-up question to your motion, just so I understand. Would the motion still leave the authority to staff to change the time in the future? Or would you want it to come back to commission?

If we do approve it, it would only be for that portion. So, if they expand beyond that, it would come back to us. It's not untypical for these items that staff will have the flexibility to modify these. I'm comfortable with staff's expertise in this, and it would also be something that could be implemented in a much faster rate than having to come back to the commission.

Because I think if you approved it as is, that's the way it would That's stand, correct. Just to clarify, that's I'm with you.

I'm going leave my motion as is. We do have a second on that. Alright, I'll go ahead and call for the vote. All right. With that, the motion passes. Great. With that, we will move on to adjournment. The next regular city traffic commission meeting will be held on Wednesday, 06/10/2026 at 05:30 here in Council Chambers. Thanks everyone.

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Hi. We're with the Orange County Peg Channel, and we're interested

in learning more about the street fair and your booth. What are y'all's names? I'm Joseph.

I'm Gabby. I'm Mia.

And would you all be able

to tell us about what you're doing here? Sure.

So I'm manning the girl here at our booth. We're from Saint John Marin Church. We're just down Chapman On Street. Flower Street. Every year, we come out here and we make shawarma, chicken, beef, falafel, and fries, and we'll have a good time.

Yeah. How many years have you guys been doing this? I think it was

the past five, six years, maybe?

At least. Maybe around like seven or eight. Yeah.

People love it. They seem to love it. I mean, they always come. They're eager to learn about the culture a little bit more when you're out. Because I'm a cashier, they're always chatting there with me. People are always they're always coming, like, I love the food, great people, amazing environment. So

Is this a family business? Or

So it's it's run by our church. The church has been in Orange about, I'd say, past decade or so. We were originally in Anaheim, but the previous church had burned down. So we moved here. We made our place here at a at an old I think it was a hospital on off of Flower Street. And we started coming here to set up a booth. And for the past six or so years, we've

been pretty successful. So it's been awesome for the church.

That's awesome. Thank you guys so much. You

have a great day.

Kelsey, can you tell us a little bit about your booth?

Sure. I'm the owner of Kelsey's Corner. We're a local laser engraving business. We do 40 ounce cups. We do a wallet. We also do amazing Bluetooth speaker tumblers.

How long have you guys been engraving?

Three years now, and this is our third time at the street fair.

Third time? Wow.

Has been this

has been good?

You guys take care of us every year. We appreciate everybody returning year after year.

Yeah. What do you think sells the best? What engravings are people usually looking for?

So this year, the fan favorite is definitely the Awala brand. This is like the new It tumbler. Everybody wants one. Also, the Bluetooth speaker tumblers, those are always a fan favorite. You heard that right. A Bluetooth speaker tumbler, a cup with a detachable rechargeable speaker on it. And lastly, how

did you

guys find out about the street fair? Did it coincide with your business?

So actually, I attended Cal State Fullerton when I was in college many years ago and just thought it'd be really fun to return as a vendor.

Awesome. Thank you so much, Kelsey. What's your favorite thing about this weekend?

I just like the diversity. I like that you can get so many

different types of food in one area. I love seeing our friends, supporters come by and say hi. So it's a and it gives the chance for the girls in our youth group

to bond. So Yeah. Can you tell us a little bit more about your youth group?

Sure. So we are Orange Assembly of the International Order of

the Rainbow for Girls.

It's a Masonic youth organization. And so our sponsoring lodge is the Orange Grove Masonic Lodge over there on the corner.

And this is a girl's youth group.

It's a service oriented youth group that teaches girls how to be the leaders of tomorrow. Awesome.

And what are they learning today?

So today, they're learning about just the management of the booth, running, making a schedule, learning how to fry funnel cakes, learning how to talk to customers and manage finances, manage money, and then keep track of sort of the data that we acquire during the day, How many funnel cakes, how many dipping sauces, how many waters to help us plan and prepare for the future years.

And finally, what's the secret to a good funnel cake?

It's all about the batter. If the batter is cold, your funnel cake is gonna come out awesome. If your batter is too wet or too warm, it's a bad funnel cake.

We've got mayor Dan Slater here with us to talk a little bit about the street fair. So you've been living in Orange your whole life. Is that correct?

Pretty much. I lived for a portion of North Santa Ana, but my family's been Orange since the eighteen hundreds and I've been most of my life in the sand.

So how long have you been going to the street fair?

Since I was 17 and I'm 66 now. So whatever that math is.

It's a long time. How has it changed in all these years?

It really hasn't changed much and that's what people like. The Orange doesn't like a lot of change and that's something I'm dealing with but street because I love the Europe.

My name is Adam Jebic, and I'm honored to be the thirty sixth police chief for the city of Orange. At OPD, we believe that public safety is the backbone of a thriving economy. Businesses flourish when its employees, customers, and owners feel secure. We're here at the outlets of Orange to highlight our decrease in crime. Many of our crime reduction strategies start right here where we can make an impact on property crimes such as retail theft.

One of our strategies is relationships. We engage with our community and businesses with free services such Neighborhood Watch and Business Watch through our crime prevention unit. We have a full time crime analyst and meet weekly to address crime trends and deploy resources where we can make the most impact. We maximize and utilize laws like prop 36 to take physical custody of offenders. We're here in the Santiago Creek near Hart Park to highlight our efforts to address quality of life issues such as homelessness.

Our dispatch center receives approximately 366 calls for service a month, which was almost 4,400 calls last year specific to homelessness. We regularly patrol our parks, libraries, and train depot to ensure our community's concerns are addressed. The homelessness issue is not going away, especially with the proximity to several hospitals, the resources offered by the Hub OC, and the safety and cleanliness of our parks. However, we are managing it and directing resources to it because we know this is a priority priority to our community. None of our successes could happen without our greatest asset, our people.

Twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, three hundred and sixty five days a year, our people are dedicated to service. Here are a few examples. Our dispatch handled over a 163,000 total calls. 46,000 of those were nine one one calls and handled within less than ten seconds 99% of the time. Our officers responded to over 82,000 calls for service.

We arrived at priority one calls within four and a half minutes. However, as staffing levels fluctuate and financial uncertainties exist within the city, the police department is making difficult decisions to ensure a quick response time and safe safeguard our community. To maintain patrol deployment, specialty units such as bikes, heart, motors, DUI, canine, and detectives have been reduced. Twenty twenty six numbers could look different, but our top priorities are to retain our people who serve our community and meet the expectations for service.

Hello. I'm Jared Hildenbrand, city manager for the city of Orange. Orange is open for business, and we're backing that up with action. A safe city is the starting point, and we're proud of the work our police and fire departments do every day to protect this community. But to keep Orange thriving, city hall has to do its part, remove friction, deliver responsive service, and help good projects move forward.

That's why we've aligned every department, from community development to public works to finance around one shared commitment. Seamless service for businesses and for entrepreneurs who want to bring new ideas to Orange. We've heard the feedback and we've made meaningful changes. We've modernized how we do business with the launch of our online Civic Portal so people can track applications, track progress, and save time. We've updated our codes to provide more flexibility, and we've taken a hard look at internal processes to cut unnecessary steps and reduce delays because your time matters.

Our message to the business community is straightforward. We will be responsive, practical, and we'll be a partner in your success. Orange is safe, Orange is helpful, and Orange is open for business.

Fourseven is the official mobile app of the city of Orange. Help for many common issues is just a touch away. Download Orange 20 fourseven directly from the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store, then sign up for an Orange twenty fourseven account. Once downloaded and signed in, select the topic that best fits your need from the main menu. If you need to provide photographs to illustrate your request, you can upload them directly from your device's library. Enter the location of the issue or request, choose your privacy level, hit submit, and

you're all set. It's that easy!

Hi. We're with the Orange County Peg Channel,

and we're interested in learning more about the street fair and your booth. What are y'all's names? I'm Joseph.

I'm Gabby. I'm Mia.

And would you all be able to tell us about what you're doing here?

Sure. So I'm Manning the Grill here at our booth. We're from Saint John Merrick Church. We're just down Chapman on off of Flower Street. Every year we come out here and we make shawarma, chicken, beef, falafel, and fries, and we all have a good time.

Yeah. How many years have you guys been doing this?

I think we're in the past five, six years maybe.

I believe. Maybe around like seven or eight. Yeah.

People love it. They seem to love it. I mean, they always come that you gotta learn about the culture a little bit more when you're up. Because I'm a cashier, so they're always chatting there with me. People are always they always come, I love the food, great people, amazing environment. So yeah.

Is this a family business? Or

So it's it's run by our church. The church has been in Orange about, I'd say, past decade or so. We're originally in Anaheim, but the previous church had burned down. So we moved here. We made our place here at a at an old I think it was a hospital off off of Flower Street, and we started coming here to set up a booth. For And the past six or so years, we've been pretty successful.

So it's been awesome for the church.

Yeah. That's awesome. Thank you guys so much. Thank

you. A great day.

Everybody wants one. Also, the Bluetooth speaker tumblers, those are always a fan favorite. You heard that right. A Bluetooth speaker tumbler, a cup with a detachable rechargeable speaker on it. And lastly, how did

you guys find out about the street fair?

Did it

coincide with your business?

So actually, I attended Cal State Fullerton when I was in college many years ago and just thought it'd be really fun to return as a vendor.

Awesome. Thank you so much Kelsey. What's your favorite thing about the street fair?

I just like the diversity. I like that

you can get so many different types of food in one area. I love seeing our friends and supporters come by and say hi. So it's a and it's it's the chance for the girls and our youth group to bond. So

Yeah. Can you tell us a little bit more about your youth group?

Sure. So we are Orange Assembly of International Order of the Rainbow for Girls. It's a Masonic youth organization. And so our sponsoring lodge is the Orange Grove Masonic Lodge, which is over

there on the corner. And this is a girls youth group. It's a service oriented youth group.

It teaches girls how to be the leaders of tomorrow.

Awesome. And what are they learning today?

So today, they're learning about just the management of the booth, running, making a schedule, learning how to fry funnel cakes, learning how to talk to customers and manage finances, manage money, and then keep track of sort of the data that we acquire during the day, how many funnel cakes, how many dipping sauces, how many waters to help us plan and prepare for future years.

And finally, what's the secret to a good funnel cake?

It's all about the batter. If the batter is cold, your funnel cake is gonna come out awesome. If your batter is too wet or too warm, it's a bad funnel cake.

We've got mayor Dan Slater here with us to talk a little bit about the street fair. So you've been living in Orange your whole life. Is that correct?

Pretty much. I lived for a portion North Santa Ana, but my family's been in Orange since the eighteen hundreds and I've been most of my life in the city.

So how long have you been going to the street fair?

Since I was 17 and I'm 66 now. So whatever that math is.

Long time. How has it changed in all those years?

It really hasn't changed much and that's what people like. The Norris doesn't like a lot of change and that's something I'm dealing with but the street fair has always been awesome and it has been tweaked here and there but for the most part it's the same.

Do you have a favorite booth here?

Well,

My name is Adam Jebic, and I'm honored to be the thirty sixth police chief for the city of Orange. At OPD, we believe that public safety is the backbone of a thriving economy. Businesses flourish when its employees, customers, and owners feel secure. We're here at the outlets of Orange to highlight our decrease in crime. Many of our crime reduction strategies start right here where we can make an impact on property crimes such as retail theft.

One of our strategies is relationships. We engage with our community and businesses with free services such as Neighborhood Watch and Business Watch through our crime prevention unit. We have a full time crime analyst and meet weekly to address crime trends and deploy resources where we can make the most impact. We maximize and utilize laws like prop 36 to take physical custody of offenders. We're here in the Santiago Creek near Hart Park to highlight our efforts to address quality of life issues such as homelessness.

Our dispatch center receives approximately 366 calls for service a month, which was almost 4,400 calls last year specific to homelessness. We regularly patrol our parks, libraries, and train depot to ensure our community's concerns are addressed. The homelessness issue is not going away, especially with the proximity to several hospitals, the resources offered by the Hub OC, and the safety and cleanliness of our parks. However, we are managing it and directing resources to it because we know this is a priority to our community. None of our successes could happen without our greatest asset, our people.

Twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, three hundred and sixty five days a year, our people are dedicated to service. Here are a few examples. Our dispatch handled over a 163,000 total calls. 46,000 of those were nine one one calls and handled within less than ten seconds 99% of the time. Our officers responded to over 82,000 calls for service.

We arrived at priority one calls within four and a half minutes. However, as staffing levels fluctuate and financial uncertainties exist within the city, the police department is making difficult decisions to ensure a quick response time and safeguard our community. To maintain patrol deployment, specialty units such as bikes, heart, motors, DUI, canine, and detectives have been reduced. Twenty twenty six numbers could look different, but our top priorities are to retain our people who serve our community and meet the expectations for service.

Hello. I'm Jared Hildenbrand, city manager for the city of Orange. Orange is open for business, and we're backing that up with action. A safe city is the starting point, and we're proud of the work our police and fire departments do every day to protect this community. But to keep Orange thriving, City Hall has to do its part, remove friction, deliver responsive service, and help good projects move forward.

That's why we've aligned every department from community development to public works to finance around one shared commitment. Seamless service for businesses and for entrepreneurs who want to bring new ideas to Orange. We've heard the feedback, and we've made meaningful changes. We've modernized how we do business with the launch of our online portal so people can track applications, track progress, and save time. We've updated our codes to provide more flexibility, and we've taken a hard look at internal processes to cut unnecessary unnecessary steps and reduce delays because your time matters.

Our message to the business community is straightforward. We will be responsive, we will be practical, and we'll be a partner in your success. Orange is safe, Orange is helpful, and Orange is open for business.

20 fourseven is the official mobile app of the city of Orange. Help for many common issues is just a touch away. Download Orange 20 fourseven directly from the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store, then sign up for an Orange twenty fourseven account. Once downloaded and signed in, select the topic that best fits your need from the main menu. If you need to provide photographs to illustrate your request, you can upload them directly from your device's library. Enter the location of the issue or request, choose your privacy level, hit submit, and

you're all set. It's that easy.

Alright. Hi. We're with the Orange County Peg Channel and we're interested in learning about the street fair and

your booth. What are y'all's names?

I'm Joseph. I'm Gabby. I'm Mia.

And would you all be able

to tell us about what you're doing here? Sure.

So I'm aiming to go here at our booth. We're from Saint John Maran Church with just on Chapman on off of Dollar Street. Every year, we come out here and we make shawarma, chicken, beef, falafel, and fries, and we all all have a good time.

Yeah. How many years have you guys been doing this?

I think for the

So

it's it's run by our church. The church has been in Orange for about, I'd say, the past decade or so. We were originally in Anaheim, but the previous church had burned down. So we moved here. We made our place here at a at an old I think it was a hospital on Buffalo Flower Street and started coming here to set up a booth. For the past six or so years, we've been pretty successful.

So it's been awesome for the church.

Yeah. That's awesome. Thank you guys so much. Yeah. You have a great day.

Kelsey, can you tell us a little bit about Mulu? Sure. I'm the

owner of Kelsey's Corner. We're a local laser engraving business. We do a 40 ounce cup. We do a wallace. We have two amazing Gucci speakers. Long have you guys been in Graydon? Three years now, and this is actually our third time at the street fair.

Third time? Wow. Has this been business been good?

You guys take care of us every year. We appreciate everybody returning year after year. Yeah.

What do you think sells the best engravings that people are usually looking for?

So this year,

the fan favorite is definitely the Awala brand. This is like the new It tumbler. Everybody wants one. Also, the Bluetooth speaker tumblers, those are always a fan favorite. You heard that right. A Bluetooth speaker tumbler, a cup with a detachable rechargeable speaker on it.

And lastly, how did you guys find out about the street fair? Did it coincide with your business?

So actually, I attended Cal State Fullerton when I was in college many years ago and, just thought it'd be really fun to return as a vendor.

Awesome. Thank you so much, Kelsey. Do think about the street fair?

I just like the diversity. I like that

you can get so many different types of food in one area. I love seeing our friends and supporters come by and say hi. So it's a and it gives the chance for the girls in our youth group to bond. So Yeah.

Can you tell us a little bit more about your youth group?

Sure. So we are Orange Assembly of the International Order of the Rainbow for Girls. It's a Masonic youth organization. And so our sponsoring lodge is the Orange Grove Masonic Lodge, which is over there

on the corner. And this is

a girls youth group. It's a service oriented youth group. It teaches girls how to be the

leaders of tomorrow. Awesome. And what are they learning today?

So today, they're learning about just the management of the booth, running, making a schedule, learning how to fry funnel cakes, learning how to talk to customers and manage finances, manage money, and then keep track of sort of the data that we acquire during the day. How many funnel cakes, how many dipping sauces, how many waters to help us plan and prepare for future years.

And finally, what's the secret to a good funnel cake?

It's all about the batter. If the batter is cold, your funnel cake is gonna come out awesome. If your batter is too wet or too warm, it's a bad funnel cake.

Long time. How has it changed in all these years? Do you have a favorite booth here?

Well, it's I'm torn between the Irish street mood because I love the music and the beer and Greek Street.

My name is Adam Jebic, and I'm honored be the thirty sixth police chief for the city of Orange. At OPD, we believe that public safety is the backbone of a thriving economy. Businesses flourish when its employees, customers, and owners feel secure. We're here at the outlets of Orange to highlight our decrease in crime. Many of our crime reduction strategies start right here where we can make an impact on property crimes such as retail theft.

One of our strategies is relationships. We engage with our community and businesses with free services such as Neighborhood Watch and Business Watch through our crime prevention unit. We have a full time crime analyst and meet weekly to address crime trends and deploying resources where we can make the most impact. We maximize and utilize laws like prop 36 to take physical custody of offenders. We're here in the Santiago Creek near Hart Park to highlight our efforts to address quality of life issues such as homelessness.

Our dispatch center receives approximately 366 calls for service a month, which was almost 4,400 calls last year specific to homelessness. We regularly patrol our parks, libraries, and train depot to ensure our community's concerns are addressed. The homelessness issue is not going away, especially with the proximity to several hospitals, the resources offered by the Hub OC, and the safety and cleanliness of our parks. However, we are managing it and directing resources to it because we know this is priority to our community. None of our successes could happen without our greatest asset, our people.

Twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, three hundred and sixty five days a year, our people are dedicated to service. Here are a few examples. Our dispatch handled over a 163,000 total calls. 46,000 of those were nine one one calls and handled within less than ten seconds 99% of the time. Our officers responded to over 80,000 calls for service.

We arrived at priority one calls within four and a half minutes. However, as staffing levels fluctuate and financial uncertainties exist within the city, the police department is making difficult decisions to ensure a quick response time and safeguard our community. To maintain patrol deployment, specialty units such as bikes, heart, motors, DUI, canine, and detectives have been reduced. Twenty twenty six numbers could look different, but our top priorities are to retain our people who serve our community and meet the expectations for service.

Hello. I'm Jared Hildenbrand, city manager for the city of Orange. Orange is open for business, and we're backing that up with action. A safe city is the starting point, and we're proud of the work our police and fire departments do every day to protect this community. But to keep Orange thriving, city hall has to do its part, remove friction, deliver responsive service, and help good projects move forward.

That's why we've aligned every department from community development to public works to finance around one shared commitment. Seamless service for businesses and for entrepreneurs who want to bring new ideas to Orange. We've heard the feedback and we've made meaningful changes. We've modernized how we do business with the launch of our online Civic Portal so people can track applications, track progress, and save time. We've updated our codes to provide more flexibility, and we've taken a hard look at internal processes to cut unnecessary steps and reduce delays because your time matters.

Our message to the business community is straightforward. We will be responsive, we will be practical, and we'll be a partner in your success. Orange is safe, Orange is helpful, and Orange is open for business.

Fourseven is the official mobile app of the city of Orange. Help for many common issues is just a touch away. Download Orange 20 fourseven directly from the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store, then sign up for an Orange 20 fourseven account. Once downloaded and signed in, select the topic that best fits your need from the main menu. If you need to provide photographs to illustrate your request, you can upload them directly from your device's library. Enter the location of the issue or request, choose your privacy level, hit submit, and

you're all set. It's that easy.

Alright. Hi. We're with the Orange County Peg Channel, and

we're interested in learning more about the street fair and your booth. What are y'all's names?

I'm Joseph. I'm Gabby. I'm Mia.

And would you all be able

to tell us about what you're doing here?

Sure. So I'm Manning the Girl here at our booth. We're from Saint John Merritt Church. We're just down Chapman on off of Flower Street. Every year we come out here and we make shawarma, chicken, beef, falafel, and fries, and grill. Have a good time.

Yeah. How many years have you guys been doing this? Think in the

past five, six years, maybe. Think it's

been here like seven or eight. Yeah.

People Yeah. Love it. They seem to love it. I mean, they always come that you get to learn about the culture a little bit more when you're up. Because I'm a cashier, so they're always chatting it with me. People are always they always come, like, I love the food, great people, amazing environment. So Is

this a family business? Or

So it's it's run by our church. The church has been in Orange for about, I'd say, past decade or so. We were originally in Anaheim, but the previous church had burned down. So we moved here. We made our place here at a at an old I think it was a hospital off of Flower Street, and we started coming here to set up a booth. And for the past six or so years, we've

been pretty successful. So it's been awesome for the church.

Yeah. That's awesome. Thank you guys so much. Thank you.

You have a great day.

Kelsey, can you tell us a little bit about your booth?

Sure. I'm the owner of Kelsey's Corner. We're a local laser engraving business. We do 40 ounce cups. We do a wallets. We also do amazing Bluetooth speaker tumblers.

How long have you guys been engraving?

Three years now, and this is actually our third time at this repair.

Third time? Wow. This been this has been good?

You guys take care of us every year. We appreciate everybody returning year after year.

Yeah. What do you think sells the best? What engravings are people usually looking for?

So this year the fan favorite is definitely the Awala brand. This is like the new it tumbler. Everybody wants one. Also the Bluetooth speaker tumblers, those are always a fan favorite. You heard that right. A Bluetooth speaker tumbler, a cup with a detachable rechargeable speaker on it. And lastly, how did you guys find

out about the street fair? Did it coincide with your business?

So actually, I attended Cal State Fullerton when I was in college many years ago and just thought it'd be really fun to return as a vendor.

Awesome. Thank you so much, Kelsey. What's the favorite thing about this weekend?

I just like the diversity. I like that

you can get so many different types of food in one area. I love seeing our friends and supporters come by and say hi. So it's a and it gives the chance for the girls in our

youth group to bond. So Yeah. Can you tell us a little bit more about your youth groups?

Sure. So we are Orange Assembly of the International Order of the Rainbow for Girls. It's a Masonic youth organization. And so our sponsoring lodge is the Orange Grove Masonic Lodge, which is over there

on the corner. And this is a girls youth group.

It's a servant oriented youth group. It teaches girls how to be the leaders and more. Awesome.

And what are they learning today?

So today, they're learning about management of the booth, running, making a schedule, learning how to fry funnel cakes, learning how to talk to customers and manage finances, manage money, and then keep track of sort of the data that we acquire during the day. How many funnel cakes, how many dipping sauces, how many waters to help us plan and prepare for future years.

And finally, what's the secret to a good funnel cake?

It's all about the batter. If the batter is cold, your funnel cake is gonna come out awesome. If your batter is too wet or too warm, it's a bad funnel cake.

We've got mayor Dan Slater here with us to talk a little bit about the street fair. So you've been living in Orange your whole life. Is that correct?

Pretty much. I lived for a portion of North Santa Ana, but my family's been Orange since the eighteen hundreds, and I've been most of my life in the city. So

how long have you been going to the street fair?

Since I was 17, and I'm 66 now, so whatever that math is. Long

time. How has it changed in all those years?

It really hasn't changed much and that's what people like. They Norris doesn't like a lot of change and that's something I'm dealing with but street fair has always been awesome. And it's got some good treats here and there. It's the most part

of the same. Do you have a favorite nook here? Well,

I'm torn between the Irish street fairs because I love the music up there and the great cereal. I love the gyros.

My name is Adam Jebic, and I'm honored to be the thirty sixth police chief for the city of Orange. At OPD, we believe that public safety is the backbone of a thriving economy. Businesses flourish when its employees, customers, and owners feel secure. We're here at the outlets of Orange to highlight our decrease in crime. Many of our crime reduction strategies start right here where we can make an impact on property crimes such as retail theft.

One of our strategies is relationships. We engage with our community and businesses with free services such as Neighborhood Watch and Business Watch through our crime prevention unit. We have a full time crime analyst and meet weekly to address crime trends and deploy resources where we can make the most impact. We maximize and utilize laws like prop 36 to take physical custody of offenders. We're here in the Santiago Creek near Hart Park to highlight our efforts to address quality of life issues such as homelessness.

Our dispatch center receives approximately 366 calls for service a month, which was almost 4,400 calls last year specific to homelessness. We regularly patrol our parks, libraries, and train depot to ensure our community's concerns are addressed. The homelessness issue is not going away, especially with the proximity to several hospitals, the resources offered by the Hub OC, and the safety and cleanliness of our parks. However, we are managing it and directing resources to it because we know this is a priority to our community. None of our successes could happen without our greatest asset, our people.

Twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, three hundred and sixty five days a year, our people are dedicated to service. Here are a few examples. Our dispatch handled over a 163,000 total calls. 46,000 of those were nine one one calls and handled within less than ten seconds 99% of the time. Our officers responded to over 82,000 calls for service.

We arrived at priority one calls within four and a half minutes. However, as staffing levels fluctuate and financial uncertainties exist within the city, the police department is making difficult decisions to ensure a quick response time and safeguard our community. To maintain patrol deployment, specialty units such as bikes, heart, motors, DUI, canine, and detectives have been reduced. 2026 numbers could look different, but our top priorities are to retain our people who serve our community and meet the expectations for service.

Hello. I'm Jared Hildenbrand, city manager for the city of Orange. Orange is open for business, and we're backing that up with action. A safe city is the starting point, and we're proud of the work our police and fire departments do every day to protect this community. But to keep Orange thriving, city hall has to do its part, remove friction, deliver responsive service, and help good projects move forward.

That's why we've aligned every department from community development to public works to finance around one shared commitment. Seamless service for businesses and for entrepreneurs who want to bring new ideas to Orange. We've heard the feedback, and we've made meaningful changes. We've modernized how we do business with the launch of our online Civic Portal so people can track applications, track progress, and save time. We've updated our codes to provide more flexibility, and we've taken a hard look at internal processes to cut unnecessary steps and reduce delays, because your time matters.

Our message to the business community is straightforward. We will be responsive, will we be practical, and we'll be a partner in your success. Orange is safe, Orange is helpful, and Orange is open for business.

Is the official mobile app of the city of Orange. Help for many common issues is just a touch away. Download 20 Orange 20 fourseven directly from the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store, then sign up for an Orange 20 fourseven account. Once downloaded and signed in, select the topic that best fits your need from the main menu. If you need to provide photographs to illustrate your request, you can upload them directly from your device's library. Enter the location of the issue or request, choose your privacy level, hit submit and you're all set. It's that easy!

Alright. Hi. We're with the Orange County Pet Channel, and we're interested in learning

more about the street fair and your booth. What are y'all's names?

I'm Joseph. I'm Gabby. I'm Mia.

And would you all be able

to tell us about what you're doing here? Sure. So I'm manning

the grill here at our booth. We're from Saint John Marion Church. We're just down Chapman on off of Flower Street. Every year, we come out here and we make shawarma, chicken, beef, falafel, and fries, and we all all have a good time.

Yeah. How many years have you guys been doing this?

I think we're in the past five, six years, maybe. I believe.

Maybe around, like, seven or eight. Yeah. Yeah.

People love it. They seem to love it. I mean, they always come that you get to learn about the culture a little bit more when you're up. Because I'm a cashier, so they're always chatting in with me. People are always they always come, I love the food, great people, amazing environment. So

Is this a family business?

Or So it's it's run by our church. The church has been in Orange for about, I'd say, past decade or so. We were originally in Anaheim, but the previous church had burned down. So we moved here. We've made our place here at a at an old I think it was a hospital off of Flower Street, and we started coming here to set up a booth. And for the past six or so years, we've been pretty successful.

So it's been awesome for the church. Yeah. That's awesome. Thank you guys so much.

Thank you.

You have a great day.

You too. Tumblers.

How long have you guys been in Vegas? Three years now, and this is actually our third time at the street here. Third time? Wow.

This is pretty good.

You guys take care of us every year.

We've been

seeing everybody returning here after year. A speaker tumbler, a cup with a detachable rechargeable speaker on it.

And lastly, how did you guys find out about the street food? Did it coincide with your business?

So actually, I attended Cal State Fullerton when I was in college many years ago and just thought it'd be really fun to return to the center.

Awesome. Thank you so much, Kelsey. What's your favorite thing about this food fair?

I just like the diversity. I like that you get so many different types of food in one area. I love seeing our friends and supporters come by and say hi. So it's a and it gives the chance for the girls in our youth group to box. So

Yeah. Can you tell us a little bit more about your

youth group? Sure. So we are Orange Assembly of the International Order of the Rainbow for Girls. It's a Masonic organization. And so our sponsoring lodge is the Orange Grove Masonic Lodge, is over there on the corner.

And this is a girls youth group.

It's a service oriented youth group. It teaches girls how to be the leaders of tomorrow.

Awesome. And what are they learning today?

So today, they're learning about just the management of the booth, running, making a schedule, learning how to fry funnel cakes, learning how to talk to customers and manage finances, manage money, and then keep track of sort of the data that we acquire during the day. How many funnel cakes, how many dipping sauces, how many waters to help us plan and prepare for future years.

And finally, what's the secret to a good funnel cake?

It's all about the batter. If the batter is cold, your funnel cake is gonna come out awesome. If your batter is too wet or too warm, it's a bad funnel cake.

We've got mayor Dan Slater here with us to talk a little bit about the street fair. So you've been living in Orange your whole life. Is that correct?

Pretty much. I lived a proportion of North Santa Ana, but my family's been Orange since the eighteen hundreds and been most of my life in

the city. So how long have you been going to the street fair?

Since I was 17 and I'm 66 now, so whatever that math is.

Long time. How has it changed in all those years?

It really hasn't changed much and that's what people like. The orange doesn't like a lot of change and that's something I'm dealing with but the street fair has always been awesome and it hasn't been tweaked here and but for the most part, it's the same.

Do you have a favorite booth here?

Well, it's I'm torn between the Irish Street Booth because I love the music and the beer and

My name is Adam Jebic, and I'm honored to be the thirty sixth police chief for the city of Orange. At OPD, we believe that public safety is the backbone of a thriving economy. Businesses flourish when its employees, customers, and owners feel secure. We're here at the outlets of Orange to highlight our decrease in crime. Many of our crime reduction strategies start right here where we can make an impact on property crimes such as retail theft.

One of our strategies is relationships. We engage with our community and businesses with free services such as Neighborhood Watch and Business Watch through our crime prevention unit. We have a full time crime analyst and meet weekly to address crime trends and deploying resources where we can make the most impact. We maximize and utilize laws like prop 36 to take physical custody of offenders. We're here in the Santiago Creek near Hart Park to highlight our efforts to address quality of life issues such as homelessness.

Our dispatch center receives approximately 366 calls for service a month, which was almost 4,400 calls last year specific to homelessness. We regularly patrol our parks, libraries, and train depot to ensure our community's concerns are addressed. The homelessness issue is not going away, especially with the proximity to several hospitals, the resources offered by the Hub OC, and the safety and cleanliness of our parks. However, we are managing it and directing resources to it because we know this is priority to our community. None of our successes could happen without our greatest asset, our people.

Twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, three hundred and sixty five days a year, our people are dedicated to service. Here are a few examples. Our dispatch handled over a 163,000 total calls. 46,000 of those were nine one one calls and handled within less than ten seconds 99% of the time. Our officers responded to over 82,000 calls for service.

We arrived at priority one calls within four and a half minutes. However, as staffing levels fluctuate and financial uncertainties exist within the city, the police department is making difficult decisions to ensure a quick response time and safeguard our community. To maintain patrol deployment, specialty units such as bikes, heart, motors, DUI, canine, and detectives have been reduced. Twenty twenty six numbers could look different, but our top priorities are to retain our people who serve our community and meet the expectations for service.

Hello. I'm Jared Hildenbrand, city manager for the city of Orange. Orange is open for business, and we're backing that up with action. A safe city is the starting point, and we're proud of the work our police and fire departments do every day to protect this community. But to keep Orange thriving, city hall has to do its part, remove friction, deliver responsive service, and help good projects move forward.

That's why we've aligned every department from community development to public works to finance around one shared commitment. Seamless service for businesses and for entrepreneurs who want to bring new ideas to Orange. We've heard the feedback, and we've made meaningful changes. We've modernized how we do business with the launch of our online Civic Portal so people can track applications, track progress, and save time. We've updated our codes to provide more flexibility, and we've taken a hard look at internal process to cut unnecessary steps and reduce delays because your time matters.

Our message to the business community is straightforward. We will be responsive, we will be practical, and we'll be a partner in your success. Orange is safe, Orange is helpful, and Orange is open for business.

The official mobile app of the city of Orange. Help for many common issues is just a touch away. Download Orange 20 fourseven directly from the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store, then sign up for an Orange twenty fourseven account. Once downloaded and signed in, select the topic that best fits your need from the main menu. If you need to provide photographs to illustrate your request, you can upload them directly from your device's library. Enter the location of the issue or request, choose your privacy level, hit submit, and

you're all set. It's that easy.

Alright. Hi. We're with the Orange County Peg Channel and we're interested in

learning more about the street fair and your booth. What are y'all's names? I'm Joseph.

I'm Gabby. I'm Mia.

And would you all be able

to tell us about what you're doing here?

Sure. So I'm mainly the girl here at our booth. We're from Saint John Marin Church. We're just down Chapman on off the street. Every year, we come out here and we make shawarma, chicken, beef, falafel, and fries, and grill, all the good times.

Yeah. How many years have you guys been doing this? I think

for the past five, six years, maybe?

Is this

a family business? Or No.

It's it's

run by our church. The church has been in Orange for about, I'd say, past decade or so. We were originally in Anaheim, but the previous church had burned down. So we moved here. We met our place here at a at an old I think it was a hospital on top of Flower Street, and we started coming here to set

up a booth. And for the

past six or so years,

we've been pretty successful. So it's been awesome for the church.

Yeah. That's awesome. Thank you guys so much. You have a great day. Bit about you do?

Sure. I'm the owner of Kelsey's Corner. We're a local major engraving business. We do 40 ounce cups. We do a wallets. We also do amazing Bluetooth speaker templates. How long have you guys been engraving? Three years now. This question is for

Tempur Pistew Campus. Third time off. You This is this is so good.

Guys take care of us every year. We appreciate everybody returning year after year. Yeah.

What do you think sells the best? What engravings are people usually looking for?

So this year, the fan favorite is definitely the Awala brand. This is like the new It tumbler. Everybody wants one. Also, Bluetooth speaker tumblers, those are always a fan favorite. You heard that right. A Bluetooth speaker tumbler, a cup with a detachable rechargeable speaker on it.

And lastly, how did you guys find out about the street fair? Did it coincide with your business?

So actually, attended Cal State Fullerton when I was in college many years ago and, just thought it'd be really fun to return as a vendor.

Awesome. Thank you so much, Kelsey. What's your favorite thing about the street food?

I just like the diversity.

I like that you can get so many different types of food in one area. I love seeing our friends and supporters come by and say hi. So it's a and it gives the chance for the girls in our youth group to bond. So

Yeah. Can you tell us a little bit more about your youth group?

Sure. So we are Orange Assembly of the International Order of the Rainbow for Girls. It's a Masonic youth organization. And so our sponsoring lodge is the Orange Grove Masonic Lodge, is over there on the corner.

And this is a girls youth group. It's a

service oriented youth group. It teaches girls how to be the leaders of tomorrow.

Awesome. And what are they learning today?

So today, they're learning about just the management of the booth, running, making a schedule, learning how to fry funnel cakes, learning how to talk to customers and manage finances, manage money, and then keep track of sort of the data that we acquire during the day. How many funnel cakes, how many dipping sauces, how many waters to help us plan and prepare for future years.

And finally, what's the secret to a good funnel cake?

It's all about the batter. If the batter is cold, your funnel cake is gonna come out awesome. If your batter is too wet or too warm, it's a bad funnel cake.

You have a favorite booth here? Well,

I'm torn between the Irish Street booth. We've got to love the music and the beer and Greek Street because I love the heroes.

My name is Adam Jebic, and I'm honored to be the thirty sixth police chief for the city of Orange. At OPD, we believe that public safety is the backbone of a thriving economy. Businesses flourish when its employees, customers, and owners feel secure. We're here at the outlets of Orange to highlight our decrease in crime. Many of our crime reduction strategies start right here where we can make an impact on property crimes such as retail theft.

One of our strategies is We engage with our community and businesses with free services such as Neighborhood Watch and Business Watch through our crime prevention unit. We have a full time crime analyst and meet weekly to address crime trends and deploy resources where we can make the most impact. We maximize and utilize laws like Prop 36 to take physical custody of offenders. We're here in the Santiago Creek near Hart Park to highlight our efforts to address quality of life issues such as homelessness. Our dispatch center receives approximately 366 calls for service a month, which was almost 44 calls last year specific to homelessness.

We regularly patrol our parks, libraries, and train depot to ensure our community's concerns are addressed. The homelessness issue is not going away, especially with the proximity to several hospitals, the resources offered by the Hub OC, and the safety and cleanliness of our parks. However, we are managing it and directing resources to it because we know this is a priority to our community. None of our successes could happen without our greatest asset, our people. Twenty four hours a day, seven days a week, three sixty five days a year, our people are dedicated to service.

Here are a few examples. Our dispatch handled over a 163,000 total calls. 46,000 of those were nine one one calls and handled within less than ten seconds, 99% of the time. Our officers responded to over 82,000 calls for service. We arrived at priority one calls within four and a half minutes. However, as staffing levels fluctuate and financial uncertainties exist within the city, the police department is making difficult decisions to ensure a quick response time and safeguard our community. To maintain patrol deployment, specialty units such as bikes, heart, motors, DUI, canine, and detectives have been reduced. Twenty twenty six numbers could look different, but our top priorities are to retain our people who serve our community and meet the expectations for service.

Hello. I'm Jared Hildenbrand, city manager for the city of Orange. Orange is open for business, and we're backing that up with action. A safe city is the starting point, and we're proud of the work our police and fire departments do every day to protect this community. But to keep Orange thriving, city hall has to do its part, remove friction, deliver responsive service, and help good projects move forward.

That's why we've aligned every department from community development to public works to finance around one shared commitment. Seamless service for businesses and for entrepreneurs who want to bring new ideas to Orange. We've heard the feedback, and we've made meaningful changes. We've modernized how we do business with the launch of our online Civic Portal so people can track applications, track progress, and save time. We've updated our codes to provide more flexibility, and we've take a hard look at internal processes to cut unnecessary steps and reduce delays because your time matters.

Our message to the business community is straightforward. We will be responsive, we will be practical, practical, and we'll be a partner in your success. Orange is safe, Orange is helpful, and Orange is open for business.

Fourseven is the official mobile app of the city of Orange. Help for many common issues is just a touch away. Download Orange 20 fourseven directly from the Apple App Store or the Google Play Store, then sign up for an Orange 20 fourseven account. Once downloaded and signed in, select the topic that best fits your need from the main menu. If you need to provide photographs to illustrate your request, you can upload them directly from your device's library. Enter the location of the issue or request, choose your privacy level, hit submit, and

you're all set. It's that easy.

Hi. We're with the Orange County Tech Channel,

and we're interested in learning more about the street fair and your booth. What are y'all's names? I'm Joseph.

I'm Gabby. I'm Mia.

And would you all be able

to tell us about what you're doing here? Sure.

So I'm manning the grill here at our booth. We're from Saint John Merritt Church. We're just down Chapman off of Flower Street. Every year we come out here and we make shawarma, chicken, beef, falafel, and fries, and we'll all have a good time.

Yeah. How many years have you guys been doing this?

The past five, six years, maybe?

Maybe like seven or eight.

Because I'm a cashier, so they're always chatting it with me. People are always they always come, like,

I love

the food, great people, amazing environment. So yeah.

Is this a family business or

So it's it's run by our church. The church has been in Orange for about, I'd say, past decade or so. We were originally in Anaheim, but the previous church had burned down. So we moved here. We made our place here at a at an old I think it was hospital off of Flower Street, and we started coming here to set up a booth. And for the past six or so years, we've been pretty successful.

So it's been awesome for the church.

Yeah. That's awesome. Thank you guys so much.

Thank you. You have a great day.

Kelsey, can you tell us a little bit about your booth?

I'm the owner of Kelsey's Corner. We're a local laser engraving business. We do 40 ounce cups. We do a wallet. We also do amazing Bluetooth speaker tumblers.

How long have you guys been engraving?

Three years now. This is actually our third time at the street fair.

Third time. Wow. This has been this has been good.

You guys take care of us every year. We appreciate everybody returning year after year.

Yeah. What do you think sells the best? What engravings are people usually looking for?

So this year, the fan favorite is definitely the Awala brand. This is like the new it tumbler. Everybody wants one. Also, the Bluetooth speaker tumblers, those are always a fan favorite. You heard that right. A Bluetooth speaker tumbler, a cup with a detachable rechargeable speaker on it.