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THRIVE Public Comments @ Planning Commission Meeting (Nov 8, 2021?) <br /> Two key areas are still largely unaddressed: <br /> The displacement of the longtime residents in Santa Ana's low income neighborhoods, <br /> particularly youth, immigrants, renters, and other key vulnerable neighbors that are at the heart <br /> and soul of Santa Ana's character as a City, and are an integral part of our identity and our <br /> economy. <br /> Environmental justice, too, has received a great deal of attention in the draft general plan, yet <br /> clear solutions have not been established for the widespread ground contamination, <br /> concentrated in low income neighborhoods of color <br /> Environmental justice also includes the availability of healthy food, open space, healthy <br /> living spaces, housing, and many other quality of life resources, including adequate civic <br /> representation and economic opportunities, which are largely lacking in our low income <br /> neighborhoods. The current draft of the general plan is lacking in concrete commitments in <br /> these areas: <br /> Language around . . . <br /> • Anti-displacement <br /> • Tenant protections <br /> • Community benefits <br /> . . . is weak, and make no actual commitments on the part of the City other than more <br /> meetings, without actual commitments to assure future development benefits existing residents <br /> and neighborhoods <br /> Completely missing <br /> Community land trusts <br /> Tenant opportunity to purchase <br /> First right of return <br /> Right of first refusal <br /> Mitigation of ground contamination <br /> The current draft goes so far as providing a private zoning code for developer Mike Harrah's <br /> project One Broadway Plaza, despite historic community opposition to this project <br /> Page 23 of the land use element provides for a new zoning code, <br /> ONE BROADWAY PLAZA DISTRICT CENTER (OBPDC) , explicitly created for the benefit of a <br /> developer <br />