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EXHIBIT 3 <br />CONCLUSION <br />Resident -led developments provides vital tools to confront current issues - throughout the City - <br />around rent -burden, overcrowding, and other housing -related problems. More specifically, the <br />Walnut and Daisy Micro -farm will provide social and economic benefits to the surrounding <br />neighborhood and to the City as a whole. The project will create jobs, supplemental income, <br />provide healthy food, physical activity and other healthy lifestyle options. Cost savings for <br />residents include food items, improved physical and mental health, and for the City cost savings <br />include preventing emergency services, as well as increments in neighborhood sales, which <br />contributes to local taxes. <br />These aspects of the Micro -farm project align perfectly with gaps in the existing neighborhood <br />design - particularly in the area of economic opportunity, physical activity, the availability of <br />green space and healthy foods. Current market conditions will tend to exacerbate issues of <br />obesity, poverty and inequality, among others -- that is, unless local residents, in partnership <br />with the City of Santa Ana, begin to see these gaps and vacant spaces as opportunities for <br />community -led intervention towards equitable, sustainable economic development. <br />11 <br />60A-57 <br />