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EXHIBIT 7 <br />REQUEST FOR <br />Planning Commission Action <br />PLANNING COMMISSION MEETING DATE: <br />AUGUST 12, 2019 <br />TITLE: <br />PUBLIC FACILITIES NAMING NO.2019-01 <br />TO NAME THE NEW PARK AT 720 EAST <br />SIXTH STREET "PARQUE MARIPOSA" <br />Prepared by Vince Fregoso <br />Executive Director <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />PLANNING COMMISSION SECRETARY <br />APPROVED <br />❑ <br />As Recommended <br />❑ <br />As Amended <br />❑ <br />Set Public Hearing For <br />DENIED <br />❑ <br />Applicant's Request <br />❑ <br />Staff Recommendation <br />CONTINUED TO <br />Planning Manager <br />Adopt a resolution approving Public Facilities Naming No. 2019-01 naming the park at 720 East <br />Sixth Street "Parque Mariposa." <br />BOARD OF RECREATION AND PARKS ACTION <br />On June 26, 2019, the Board of Recreation and Parks unanimously approved Public Facilities <br />Naming No. 2019-01 by a vote of 4:0 (four absences) to name a new City park "Parque <br />Mariposa" (Butterfly Park). <br />On June 18, 2019, a letter from four community groups, including Vecindario Lacy en Accion <br />(V.e.L.A.), The Kennedy Commission, Latino Health Access and Santa Ana Building Healthy <br />Communities was submitted to the Parks, Recreation and Community Services Agency <br />requesting that the new park in the Lacy Neighborhood be named "Parque Mariposa" (Exhibit 4). <br />The genesis for the name began in 2017, when over 70 residents of the Lacy Neighborhood <br />attended a meeting on the site to provide input and feedback on the design of the park. One key <br />element that will be included in the park is a sculpture of a butterfly with colorful landscape in the <br />wings of the butterfly. This sculpture represents the transformation that a butterfly experiences, <br />but also symbolizes the transformation that the Lacy Neighborhood has undergone and <br />continues to undergo in improving their quality of life. Additionally, the butterfly symbolically <br />represents migration. Like butterflies, many members of the Lacy community have migrated to <br />Santa Ana and have made the Lacy Neighborhood their home. As the construction of this park <br />will assist in the continued improvement of the Lacy Neighborhood, the surrounding community, <br />interested community groups, and the Board of Recreation and Parks all recommend that the <br />new City park be named "Parque Mariposa." <br />39A-3 <br />