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From: Mitre -Ramirez. Norma <br />To: Plannina Commission Comments <br />Subject: Fw: Planning Commission Public Comment for Agenda Item #1 <br />Date: Monday, August 03, 2020 12:52:34 PM <br />Attachments: imaae001.ona <br />imaae002.ona <br />Good Afternoon, <br />The below communication pertaining to an item on tonight's Planning Commission meeting has been received. <br />Respectfully, <br />Norma Mitre I Assistant Clerk of the Council <br />Clerk of the Council Office 1 20 Civic Center Plaza I Santa Ana, CA 92701 <br />P:714-647-6520 1 F 714-6476956 1nmitrePsanta-ana.org <br />+2020. <br />nc <br />c SANTA AMA COVNFS <br />htto://www.santa-ana.org/ <br />REMsnR awo , <br />VOTE] <br />htto://www. ocyote.com / <br />Please visit the online Holiday and Closed Friday Schedule at https://www.santa-ana.org/holiday-and-closed-friday-schedule <br />This email and any files or attachments transmitted with it may contain privileged or otherwise confidential information. If you are not the <br />intended recipient, or believe that you may have received this communication in error, please advise the sender via reply email and immediately <br />delete the email you received. This e-mail (and attachments, if any) may be subject to the California Public Records Act, and as such, may, <br />therefore, be subject to public disclosure unless otherwise exempt under the Act. <br />Effective March 19, 2020, Gavin Newsom, Governor of the State of California, ordered all individuals living in the State of <br />California to stay home or at their place of residence, in response to the global COVID-19 outbreak. City operations are <br />limited to essential staff. Due to these emergency circumstances, the City's response to your Public Records Act request <br />will be delayed. Thank you for your patience in these unprecedented times. <br />From: Nathaniel Greensides <mynci90@gmail.com> <br />Sent: Monday, August 3, 2020 12:49 PM <br />To: eComment <ecomment@santa-ana.org> <br />Cc: info@thaivietphan.com; Contreras -Leo, Cynthia <ccontreras-leo@santa-ana.org>; Phan, V. Thai <vphan@santa-ana.org>; McLoughlin, Mark <br /><mmcloughlin@santa-ana.org>; Garcia, Norma <ngarcial0@santa-ana.org>; Nguyen, Ken <knguyen20@santa-ana.org> <br />Subject: Planning Commission Public Comment for Agenda Item #1 <br />Dear Planning Commission, <br />I do not support this item. The idea of reducing requirements for developers and speculators to include housing affordability in new <br />projects would be irresponsible to all Santa Ana residents. This pandemic will have disastrous long tern economic effects and reducing <br />HOO requirements at this time will forever ensure that Santa Ana residents (and their children/the city's future) have zero chance of <br />remaining in our city. Reducing the HOO requirements will create immediate destabilization of the housing market in our City. Tenants <br />who live in Santa Ana currently will be priced out at a faster rate by new speculators and developers should the reduction in HOO <br />requirements be enacted. <br />This type of speculation and development devoured many urban and suburban cities in California after the 2008 economic crisis. A <br />report from 2018 <br />(https://d3n8a8pro7vhmx.cloudfront.net/acceinstitute/pages/ 1153/attachments/original/1570049936/WallstreetLandlordsFinalReport.pdf? <br />1570049936) by the ACCE Institute, Americans for Financial Reform, and Public Advocates - all groups which advocate for better <br />economic opportunity for tenants - explains why this is a bad thing: <br />MAJOR CONCLUSIONS <br />. When houses are sold to cash -carrying investors for conversion into rentals, prospective homeowners and "mom and pop <br />