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Orozco, Norma <br />From: Angela Capoccia <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> <br />Sent: Thursday, April 14, 2022 8:39 AM <br />To: eComment <br />Subject: Please end Santa Ana's discriminatory Residential Permit Parking Program <br />Santa Ana Public Comment email, <br />Dear City Councilmembers, Mayor Sarmiento, and Public Works, <br />I am advocating for the permit system to be changed so that condo owners have access to it. <br />Currently, it is only available to those with single family homes and the few multifamily homes <br />with 4 units or less. That is decidedly unfair. <br />I am a citizen who pays property taxes just like they do, but I am unable to park near my <br />home other than my one assigned spot. I live in a 2 bedroom condo and am limited to having <br />either just one car or to park on a dangerous street and walk a mile in, since the city has <br />converted all public streets to permit parking. My niece lives with me and we haven't gotten <br />her a car yet because she is young, beautiful, and I am terrified of her walking alone at night <br />for a mile. I too am a single woman who would be walking alone at night and in danger. We <br />have heard all about the people stalking others walking in, the broken car windows they come <br />to in the morning, and the stolen car parts. The danger is worsened immediately by city <br />policies that discriminate against anyone but a single family home owner, who has by far the <br />most resources and needs public street parking the least. Why are those who need <br />something the least allowed to hog all the resources? Why can't we all be allowed to share <br />what we all pay for? <br />My fellow residents and I have struggled for many years with the permit parking program that <br />surrounds our condos. The complex where we live was built in the 1960s, and the existing <br />parking infrastructure is insufficient for the amount of cars registered here. Our residents were <br />once able to park in the surrounding streets when it was necessary, but ever since the permit <br />parking program was implemented in our neighborhood (2005), it has become more and <br />more difficult to find available parking. <br />