On March 27, the Daily Journal quoted Ed Connor in “Santa Ana Must Face Zoning Suit Over Health Clinic Block.” The article discusses a two-year-old case involving a nonprofit health clinic’s (SOS) lawsuit against Santa Ana over a zoning ordinance that blocked the clinic’s purchase of property near an upscale shopping mall in Santa Ana. A federal judge allowed the suit to move forward after finding that Santa Ana may have acted in bad faith by enacting an urgency ordinance to require nonprofits to obtain conditional use permits downtown.

“SOS is very happy by the court’s ruling that allows SOS to seek recompense from the city having prevented us from opening this expanded medical clinic to better serve the low-income residents of Santa Ana,” Ed said. “What the court allows us to do is to now further investigate whether there was any emergency, a true emergency, that justified the city’s adoption of an urgency ordinance out of the blue with no public notice whatsoever.”

Read the article on the Daily Journal website here.