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ORANGE COUNTY <br />BUSINESS COUNCIL 2 Park Plaza, Suite 100 1 Irvine, CA 926141 P 949.476.2242 1 F 949.476,0443 1 www.ocbc.org <br />November 19, 2019 <br />The Honorable Miguel Pulido <br />Mayor, City of Santa Ana <br />20 Civic Center Plaza <br />P.O. Box 1988, M31 <br />Santa Ana, CA 92701 <br />Subject: The Addington — SUPPORT <br />Dear Mayor Pulido, <br />Orange County Business Council (OCBC) is proud to support The Addington, a vital new <br />housing project that supports Santa Ana's economic growth while helping to alleviate Orange <br />County's severely strained housing market. One of OCBC's central initiatives is increasing <br />the supply of workforce housing countywide; the City of Santa Ana has an opportunity to <br />meet the challenges of the housing shortage head-on by approving The Addington. <br />OCBC's 2019-20 Workforce Housing Scorecard, released in July 2019, illustrates a dire <br />portrait for Orange County's future if new housing is not rapidly constructed. Santa Ana will <br />see an increase in jobs and population over the next two decades, and ensuring that there is <br />sufficient housing to accommodate this growth is crucial for the City's continued success. In <br />the absence of housing, many members of Santa Ana's talented workforce are forced to live <br />in neighboring counties, potentially causing them to seek jobs in other counties as well. <br />OCBC realizes that The Addington is facing opposition from some members of the <br />community. The opposition largely relies on myths surrounding residential development than <br />many groups, including OCBC, have continually dispelled through data. OCBC urges the <br />City Council to focus on the facts of the project —The Addington been significantly redesigned <br />to create far less of an impact to the neighborhood than a by -right office project. <br />OCBC asks the City Council to approve The Addington apartment project and consider <br />the economic prosperity this project would provide for years to come. <br />Sincerely, <br />Alicia Berhow <br />Senior Vice President of Government Affairs <br />cc: The Honorable Juan Villegas, Mayor Pro Tern <br />The Honorable Vicente Sarmiento, Councilmember <br />The Honorable David Penaloza, Councilmember <br />The Honorable Jose Solorio, Councilmember <br />The Honorable Phil Bacerra, Councilmember <br />The Honorable Cecilia Iglesias, Councilmember <br />THE LEADING VOICE OF BUSINESS IN ORANGE COUNTY <br />