IN ADDITION to the nitrous oxide ordinance, the Garden Grove City Council on Tuesday night advanced the idea of renaming – or adding another name to – Traylor Way (City of Garden Grove).

By a staff writer

An ordinance restricting the sale and distribution of nitrous oxide – known as “laughing gas” and by other names – won unanimous approval from the Garden Grove City Council on Tuesday night.

“This is really a no-brainer,” said Mayor Pro Tem George Brietigam, who made the motion to approve the ordinance.
The ordinance will prohibit nitrous oxide except for certain uses as in food products – whipped cream, for example – and medical and dental purposes as a mild sedative and for some automotive racing applications.

Aside from those uses, nitrous oxide – also known as “nox” – can be a highly addictive intoxicant, often favored by young persons.

The ordinance will come back for a second and final reading at the next council meeting and would go into effect in 30 days.

A proposed ordinance prohibiting the sale and distribution of kratom products was pulled from the agenda.
Both proposed ordinances were tabled for two weeks from the Feb. 10 city council meeting.

Also on Tuesday night, the council voted to move forward with studying a proposal brought to re-name – or add an additional name – to Traylor Way, which runs diagonally from Brookhurst Street to Bowen Street.

Councilmember Joe DoVinh made the request. He suggested that rather than change the street name – which would require the consent of a majority from the 32 residences on the street – he would prefer the addition of a smaller sign atop the main sign at Brookhurst with the word “Freedom” in English, Vietnamese (Tu Do) and Spanish (Libertad).

DoVinh urged the city to speed the process in order to be completed by “Black April,” the observance of the communist conquest of the Republic of (South) Vietnam in April 1975.