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Orozco, Norma <br />From: <br />Sent: <br />To: <br />Subject: <br />Dear Mayor and City Council, <br />Evan Miles <evan.c.miles@gmail.com> <br />Monday, August 17, 2020 10:54 AM <br />eComment <br />Tuesday 8/18 - City Council Meeting <br />My name is Evan Miles, I, and my wife Stephanie Miles, both live in Santa Ana. We have lived in Santa Ana <br />for over 14 years and love this community. <br />We are very pleased by the decision to reduce the affordable housing fee to $10 for existing projects and $5 for <br />future projects. We recommend that the Council and City staff carefully listen to the companies that will <br />develop this housing in Santa Ana to determine whether reducing the fee to $5 per SF may further spur the <br />creation of new housing in our city in this time of economic uncertainty. <br />Further, mandating any type of labor can have significant consequences on the cost and viability of a project. In <br />no way am I opposed to skilled or union labor, but these decisions should be made by the applicant and not <br />mandated as a blanket policy by the City. The cost of creating housing in communities that mandate union labor <br />are far higher than those that do not include such a mandate. We are in a housing crisis as well as an economic <br />crisis. Please put our citizen's need for new housing Bust and keep the cost of new housing as it is, and do not <br />approve any mandate for union labor. <br />Thank you, <br />Evan Miles <br />