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December 15. 2020 <br />Mayor Sarmiento and City Councilmembers <br />City of Santa Ana <br />20 Civic Center Plaza <br />P.O. Bo 1988, M31 <br />Santa Ana,CA 92701 <br />RE: 11A OPPOSITION: 4th and Mortimer (Northgate) Mixed — Use Development <br />Dear City Councilmembers: <br />Vecindario Lacy en Accion (VeLA) is a group of residents from the Lacy neighborhood that <br />have united to advocate for their community. The group includes: mothers, fathers, students, <br />individuals with special abilities and community leaders that share the vision of improving the <br />quality of life in their neighborhood and the city of Santa Ana. All with the purpose of creating <br />more opportunities for families to succeed. We request that you oppose the 4th and Mortimer <br />(Northgate) Mixed - Use Development project. This project threatens our ability to stay <br />housed in our neighborhood. <br />Communityput <br />The last in person community meeting for this development was the Sunshine Ordinance <br />Meeting held on August 29, 2018; there was a large community presence with nearly 100 Santa <br />Ana residents in attendance. The majority of the residents in attendance were of the Lacy <br />neighborhood and live a walking distance from the proposed project site. At this meeting there <br />was overwhelming community opposition to the proposed project as presented. Residents <br />expressed that the proposed development was inconsistent with the needs of the neighborhood. <br />The large residential development would replace their fresh food source, Northgate Gonzalez <br />Market, with new residential units with rents that are out of reach for the neighborhood's <br />working class community. Residents expressed their community's needs for housing that would <br />be affordable to families with extremely -low and very -low incomes. The proposed development <br />must include affordable housing on site. <br />Santa Ana Community Needs <br />The City of Santa Ana is a renter majority city and despite the City's progress towards meeting <br />its Regional Housing Needs Assessment (RHNA) allocation for very low and low income <br />housing there continues to be a great need for housing that is affordable to its residents. The <br />current pandemic has increased the economic and housing pressures on low-income families in <br />Santa Ana. As incomes are decreasing and jobs are being lost, many low income families are <br />