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The County's own numbers show more than half the people staying at the Courtyard are from <br />areas other than the Central Service Planning Area. Using this information, a 200 -bed emergency <br />shelter for the Central Service Planning Area would meet the need. Most of the shelter beds are not <br />filled with Santa Ana residents. <br />If additional beds are needed in the Central Service Planning Area, then Huntington <br />Beach, Garden Grove, Tustin, Fountain Valley, Costa Mesa, Newport Beach, Orange, Villa <br />Park and Westminster need to help. The County has 85 acres from the former Tustin Marine <br />Base and 100 acres at the former El Toro Marine Base. <br />Any emergency homeless shelter over 300 beds would be larger than any emergency facility in Los <br />Angeles County. This information is based on the LA County Homeless Shelter inventory and <br />phone conversations with the LA Mission, Union Rescue Mission, and LA Family Housing <br />Corporation. <br />In addition to the Courtyard, we currently have Wiseplace/Safeplace for 60 women and are <br />building a new facility for veterans. I believe most of our residents and businesses want to help the <br />homeless by building more permanent supportive housing such as The Orchard and The Aqua <br />Motel. <br />It's time for other cities to seriously step up and share the responsibility for building necessary <br />emergency shelters. <br />Please email the city council, city manager and County .Board of Supervisors as soon as possible to <br />oppose this large emergency shelter. If you have time, please encourage your neighbors to also <br />send an email. We need to have our voices heard on this issue. FYI, several months ago, dozens <br />of buses with Irvine residents filled the County Board of Supervisors hearing opposing a 200 -bed <br />emergency shelter on the vacant 100 acre former El Toro Marine Base. This site is no longer an <br />option. <br />The email addresses are listed below. <br />ecomment@santa-ana.org <br />mpulido@santa-ana.org <br />vsarmiento@santa-ana.org <br />mimartinez@santa-ana.org <br />JSolorio@santa-ana.org <br />dbenavides@santa-ana.org <br />j villegas@santa-ana.org <br />stinajero@santa-ana.org <br />rgodinez@santa-ana.org <br />16 <br />