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November 7 2019 To the Mayor and Council, On July 17+18 the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints at 2500 N Bristol Santa Ana started a plan to resurface their parking lot. The first step was to wire brush the entire parking lot with a bobcat tractor with a power wire brush to remove the over 5 layer of asphalt slurry. On the 18`h of July the contractor started at 6 am blowing dust and making noise. I called the Santa Ana police with a dust and noise complaint,ln unit to arrive at 6:33 am, Officer Holcomb confirmed that Santa Ana has a 8 am start time and contractor could start work at that time. When asked about my dust complaint the officer said "we don't do anything about dust". Officer left parking lot at 6:55 am. At 7:02 1 called the South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD). Complaint # 300543 The Inspector arrive at 2500 n Bristol at 7:30 am (what happen to a 8:00 am start time?) and observed the dust and informed the contractor to use better dust control on site. At 8:20 am I was on phone with Inspector with her telling me that the contractor was told to watch his dust and had turned down equipment that was blowing asphalt dust. I informed her that I was looking at the parking lot and it looked like they were blowing a lot of asphalt dust and the dust plume was over 20 ft high. Over the next 4 days I spoke with several different people with the city and county fire department to no avail. We even had the big fire truck out 2 times to look at the asphalt dust on Sharon Rd. Monday 22 JULY Clean up Contractor was informed by Craig Foster of Santa Ana public works to clean up the 1300 block of Sharon rd . Contractor used a HEPA vacuum to clean right of way. Was suggested by the city that I work with Scott Kutner, Senior community Planner, on trying to fix and understand what went wrong. I also sent a sample of the asphalt dust to EMSL ANALYTICAL inc the result were 34.7% Crystalline, Silica and 2.1 % Cristobalite Silica over 36 times the amount allow by Cal OSHA on a job site. Oct. 28 thru 31 Church decided to mill X inch off the asphalt and slurry to get to solid asphalt using water as dust control.. I did not observe the work that day. On the 291h I did observe dust crossing the walls on the back yard of the 2500 block of Poplar St. I called AQMD to file a complaint #305111