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Orozco, Norma From: Aaron Peluso <cchcorp@gmail.com> Sent: Tuesday, October 05, 2021 11:21 AM To: eComment Subject: Opposition to Consent Calendar Item #9 - Rent Control Dear City Council, I represent one of the owners of Bali Hi Mobile Home park in Santa Ana. For nearly half a century our family owned business has provided affordable housing to our residents. We work with outside organizations to subsidize any Tenants who cannot afford the rent and have not evicted anyone from a mobile home space, ever, that we can recall. We currently subsidize about a dozen Tenants who genuinely cannot afford the rent. We are not in the business of evicting seniors on fixed income who cannot afford increases. Currently our long term Tenants pay $887 per month. This is the rent paid by 119 of our 154 Tenants. This is far below market and near the bottom, if not the bottom, of all rental rates in Santa Ana mobile home parks. This can be confirmed in the city's own report on mobile home parks prepared only a few years ago. It is also rather close to your own Section 8 affordable housing standards, if I am not mistaken. It has come to my attention that a small number of Bali Hi residents spoke at the last meeting, largely presenting inaccurate information. I am available to present the correct information at any time. I fear that your hasty motion to enact rent control in the city is going to have significant near term adverse effects to affordability in our park and possibly others as well. Put shortly, I fear that it may have the opposite of your intended effect. To my knowledge you have not discussed these issues with any ownership nor ownership groups in order to fully understand the issues at play. I implore you to vote no on the motion this evening in order to take time to discuss these issues with all stakeholders so that you can make a fully informed decision about legislation that could have far reaching effects on the Santa Ana economy for decades to come. Sincerely, Aaron Peluso CCH Management LLC 949-295-3247 (mobile) 949-831-1040 (office) cchcorpAgmail.com Manager 949-495-3321 (fax)