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business owners (restaurants, retail stores, repair services, etc.) that they have \[sic\] incentive to care about their customers” I chuckled a little at “that they have incentive” I think it was supposed to say “that they have no incentive to care about their customers” The way it’s written suggests that any government regulation is the sole reason for any business to care about its patrons. The way this is written suggests that without government regulation, there is no incentive for a business to care about its customers whatsoever. But then again, I can't say I am surprised seeing that at the recent city council meetings where they appeared in person in opposition, they had stickers containing a double negative "No on No Rent Control", but are the same people who suggested that if tenants want more income, they should get more education... Anyway, working backwards from that, governments at every level – local, county, regional, state, and federal – all have laws that regulate certain business activities in the interest of the general health and welfare of the people. All businesses operating in a city must pay for a business license to operate in the city. Restaurants are held to not only health and safety codes in the preparation of the food for its patrons, but also to the building codes and local regulations of the types of food and beverages they can sell, and business hours – all in the interest of public health and safety. Retail stores are held to the same building and fire codes as any other business in the city and are taxed accordingly – some retail businesses are taxed even higher for example, dispensaries operating in Santa Ana. Repair services are required to be not only properly licensed, but also BONDED so as to ensure individual consumer protections and general public health and safety. It also ensures an additional layer of liability protection for the business required by law to be bonded and insured. Rent control hasn’t “destroy\[ed\] any incentive that landlords and” park owners have to work with community. To the contrary. Since at least 2017 when tenants began voicing their issues as tenants to the City Council, the landlords in opposition and the mobile home park owners in opposition have done nothing to better the conditions that landlords are inflicting upon tenants in Santa Ana. The park owners now in opposition of the proposed rent controls did nothing since then to ensure that a few bad actors in their own industry aren’t able to remain unfettered and unabated in their abuse and intimidation of tenants who always paid their rents on time. “If you want to ruin any sense of community, Rent Control is the tool.” I conjecture that any sense of community is actually ruined by people who gaslight the community into thinking that the residents who pay rent and make our city so desirable are lying about their experiences. I conjecture that any sense of community is actually ruined by bad landlords who actively belittle and reduce tenant complaints and issues into issues relating solely to whether or not one pays rent on time. In jurisdictions where rent control was enacted – even in the case of the statewide AB1482 – landlords are invited to the table in terms of making sure they follow any new laws. But since they failed to propose any fruitful solutions to the issues tenants face every day (and what incentive did Landlords have anyway?), tenants had to take matters into their own hands by drafting up an ordinance of our own - a version of which will now be codified into law. 2