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MH�T <br />Manufactured flarsing Educabomd <br />PACIFIC FWEST <br />Western <br />M Manufactured Housing Communities <br />Association <br />September 21, 2021 <br />Mayor and City Council <br />City of Santa Ana <br />20 Civic Center Plaza <br />Santa Ana, CA 92701 <br />RE: September 21, 2021 City Council Agenda Item No. 33 <br />Honorable Mayor Sarmiento and Members of the City Council: <br />'� �v <br />ORANGE COUNTY <br />BUSINESS COUNCIL <br />Tne Leading Voice of Business <br />OCTa..org <br />om <br />0 range CwntyTaxpayers Ammatw <br />On behalf of a coalition comprised of the region's businesses, property owners, investors, <br />developers, managers and suppliers of rental homes, REALTORS@, and manufactured housing <br />communities, we respectfully request that you reconsider moving forward with the adoption of <br />rent control and just cause eviction ordinances. <br />Lack of Transparency Due to Mayor -Led Efforts to Sidestep Accountability <br />Per the associated staff report, "The Housing Ad Hoc Committee members consist of Mayor <br />Sarmiento and Councilmembers Lopez and Phan. The Committee convened its first meeting on <br />March 22, 2021 and has since conducted four additional meetings to discuss various housing <br />issues." Yet, nowhere in the staff report is reference made to the Housing Ad Hoc Committee <br />meeting minutes or how such meetings were publicized to the community in order to gain <br />stakeholder input. It would appear that Councilmembers Lopez and Phan believe they also <br />represent Wards 2, 4, 5 and 6 in "direct[ing] staff' as part of closed -door meetings rather than <br />allowing discussion to take place in public during regularly agendized Council meetings. <br />Santa Ana Voters Have Repeatedly Spoken on this Issue, Rejecting Such Measures <br />Perhaps these ad hoc meetings were simply designed to thwart the will of Santa Ana residents <br />who have consistently rejected rent control measures, such as statewide Proposition 10 in 2018 <br />and Proposition 21 in 2020, along with refusing to sign petitions in 2018 and 2020 that fell <br />drastically short of obtaining the requisite signatures to qualify a local rent control initiative. <br />