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UCI Community Resilience However,both of these attempts came up short. Our partners in iPlo-NO! Santa Ana! reported that very few of the solutions proposed during the meetings were incorporated into the General Plan and concerns around the survey design were not addressed in the final version that was disseminated to Santa Ana residents. Ultimately,the survey suffered from poor results, receiving only 746 responses. This number does not constitute an accurate assessment of Santa Ana communities' environmental justice needs. Simply put: a survey that engages only 0.2%of residents is not good enough. iPlo-NO! Santa Ana!,along with many other residents and community stakeholders,believe that a more thorough community engagement process is needed to better inform the update to the City's General Plan. In order to ensure that the final version of the General Plan genuinely reflects the perspectives and needs of Santa Ana residents and expert community stakeholders, it is imperative that the City participate in an additional series of roundtable discussions with impacted residents and community groups such as iPlo- NO! Santa Ana!, in order to confirm their approval of the current policy language and incorporate any pending resident concerns. For these reasons,I ask you to vote to delay the adoption of the Final Recirculated Program Environmental Impact Report No.2020-03 and General Plan Amendment No. 2020-06 for Santa Ana General Plan Update. The City must take the time to engage with impacted communities to adopt specific commitments to remediating the soil-lead crisis and other environmental injustices in Santa Ana, and to implement a community review and approval process for each component in the General Plan prior to approval by the City Council. As one of the six Guiding Principles of the City of Santa Ana's Five-Year Strategic Plan, equity must not be forgotten in the General Plan process. Thank you for your time and consideration. Sincerely, ?'-af7��J Gregory Lopez Project Manager Community Resilience Projects University of California, Irvine cc: Abigail Reyes, Director Community Resilience Projects,University of California, Irvine 2 Ma61 ing ddirass: c/o U II II...a r, 401. Il::::ast Il::�aftasoirn II)irve, 3u. to 1.000, Ilirv6ine, CA 92697 1.000 I::�hys6call ddirass: 3u irnirneir 3ass6oirn I13' (13uH6irng 230), 3u. to 1.1.0, umU ll, Ilia ine CA 92697 ( 4 ) 324 2489coirriirriu ini tyiras61l6eirnce.uc6.edu