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April 19, 2022 <br /> Santa Ana City Clerk <br /> 20 Civic Center Plaza <br /> Santa Ana, CA 92701 <br /> Also sent via email to dgomez@santa-ana.org <br /> Santa Ana City Attorney <br /> 20 Civic Center Plaza <br /> Santa Ana, CA 92701 <br /> Also sent via email to scarvalho@santa-ana.org <br /> Regarding: Agenda Item 10—HOO <br /> Agenda Item 30—GPA <br /> Participation by Councilwoman Thai Phan <br /> To Whom it May Concern, <br /> This letter incorporates the previously submitted letters by reference as if fully set forth within. <br /> In February on this year, Councilwoman Thai Phan FINALLY recused herself from participating in the <br /> discussion on the HOO evidencing a conflict of interest, however, she did so by yet again participating <br /> and shaping the discussion of the procedures. <br /> The problem with that action is that the City Attorney's direction to the Council regarding the second <br /> reading was incorrect. When Councilwoman Phan recused herself due to the financial conflict of <br /> interest, her vote on the first reading and additions to the HOO must be rescinded OR if the Council <br /> wishes to revisit the HOO, the hearings must begin completely anew. <br /> This City Council has never fully revisited the clear conflicts of interest at the Planning Commission in <br /> connection with the creation of the HOO recommendation. THEN, this Council ignored the fact that <br /> Councilwoman Phan,with a financial conflict of interest, inserted completely new requirements into the <br /> HOO for union labor which had never been discussed previously in prior HOO discussions. <br /> Councilwoman Phan claims to be a "yimby" but in fact is so beholden to the Building Trade Unions that <br /> she does not in any way care about creating affordable housing in the City, but rather, paying back her <br /> union benefactors to try to ensure her future re-election. Councilwoman Phan is a series of dangerous <br /> financial conflicts of interests wrapped up in a trained municipal lawyer who flaunts the law for her <br /> personal benefit. <br /> Councilwoman Phan's additions of the requirement of union labor in the HOO is an egregious violation <br /> of the process that went into creating the HOO (such an addition should have properly gone back to the <br /> Planning Commission for re-hearing with the new substantial changes)AND is in no way germane to the <br /> opportunity to construct affordable housing. It is a blatant handout to those who give her political <br /> protection at the expense of all of the hard-working families of Santa Ana who just want a place to live <br /> and don't care about Phan paying back her political benefactors. Fortunately,the law requiring a nexus <br /> between development and exactions is very clear(which any mediocre land use attorney would know) <br /> 1 <br />