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Orozco, Norma <br /> From: Jose Rea <josejrea@gmail.com> <br /> Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2021 12:21 PM <br /> To: eComment <br /> Cc: eComment; Bacerra, Phil; Lopez, Jessie; Mendoza, Nelida; Penaloza, David; Phan, Thai; <br /> Ridge, Kristine; Sarmiento, Vicente; Hernandez, Johnathan; Carvalho, Sonia R.; Adolfo <br /> Sierra; Leone) Flores;Jabari Brown (clinic) <br /> Subject: City of Santa Ana General Plan <br /> December 7, 2021 <br /> Santa Ana City Council, City Manager and City Attorney <br /> Re: General Plan Update <br /> Last year the Planning Commission delayed the approval of the City of Santa Ana General Plan due to the <br /> insufficient and late efforts by the Building & Planning Agency to outreach and include environmentally <br /> impacted communities in the process of developing the new plan as required by SB 1000. <br /> While the city started the GPU review process in 2015, SB 1000 as anew law was implemented in 2018. The <br /> advocacy efforts by the residents and community organizations resulted in the 2020 delay of the GPU before <br /> its adoption by the previous city council. <br /> As a voting resident of the city, I hope the current city council would be more receptive to address the serious <br /> public health risks we are exposed to by polluting industries in the Madison Park Neighborhood and <br /> surrounding communities, 21 neighborhoods across 17 census tracts are considered Environmental Justice <br /> Communities in Santa Ana according the CaIEPA. I called them ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE COMMUNITIES. <br /> This is your opportunity to place the health of the residents you represent and who elected you as your top <br /> priority, the way it should always be, above business and industry interests. Do not approve the current <br /> version of the GPU, a one-year delay was not sufficient time and effort on the part of the city to educate and <br /> significantly include the communities most impacted by environmental injustice. The GPU blueprint will stay <br /> as the policy to follow for decades to come. It is your duty to improve the health outcomes of the current <br /> population as well as the next generations. <br /> Allow more time to continue to outreach to EJ communities, review and improve the current draft. <br /> Jose Rea <br /> Madison Park Neighborhood <br /> i <br />