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Flores, Dora <br />From: Houston, Nicole <br />Sent: Monday, August 17, 2020 2:18 PM <br />To: eComment_Forwarding <br />Subject: FW: Affordable Housing Fee-Tom's Truck Center <br />From: slheidler@aol.com [mailto:slheidler@aol.com] <br />Sent: Saturday, August 15, 2020 5:06 PM <br />To: Pulido, Miguel <MPulido@santa-ana.org> <br />Cc: kcheidler@ttruck.com <br />Subject: Affordable Housing Fee-Tom's Truck Center <br />Dear Miguel, <br />This letter (e-mail) is concerning the upcoming City Council meeting that will address <br />the affordable housing fee issue for the Tom's Truck Center Project. <br />Tom's Truck Center and my family's history with you goes back a long way. My late <br />husband, George, so enjoyed being with you and took great pleasure in your success <br />and the positive changes in Santa Ana under your leadership. My son KC and I <br />continue to support and take pride in you and the city. <br />I am writing this to ask for your, and the Councils, support in reducing our Affordable <br />Housing Fee. I would really like a zero fee as we have complied with every different <br />zone change, environmental requirement and city request. As you know we wanted to <br />rebuild Tom's Truck Center on the property at end, grd, and 4th Street, but the city felt <br />the best use for the property would be to have housing there. We took several parcels <br />of property from heavy industrial use, one parcel had an automobile crushing operation <br />on it, to a clean environmentally safe building site. It has taken a great amount of our <br />time and resources to get the property to a point where it meets the standards needed <br />for housing. I feel that to impose the Affordable Housing fee on top of all the other cost <br />we have incurred is extreme. <br />I have recently learned that the Affordable Housing Fee to new builders is five dollars a <br />foot, but because our plans were approved last year it would cost us ten dollars a foot. I <br />really don't understand the reasoning for this. <br />Thank you for your time and for working so hard for Santa Ana. I really wish George <br />was here to work on this project with you, the two of you would have had a great <br />working together on this. <br />