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Orozco, Norma <br /> From: Jessica Fey <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> <br /> Sent: Wednesday, May 25, 2022 4:31 PM <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 a new homeowner in Hillview Regency Condominiums located in Ward 3. In January <br /> 2022, 1 spent $475,000 to purchase my unit. Just yesterday, 5/24/22, a unit exactly like mine <br /> closed for$560,000 in our complex! $560K!! Clearly, the property values here continue to rise <br /> and, obviously, we pay property taxes the same as the nearby single family residences. <br /> I'm hearing how my fellow residents have had terrible struggles for many years with the <br /> permit parking program that surrounds our condos (despite the pretty penny it costs to live in <br /> this complex nowadays). It is ridiculous to pay a vast amount of money to buy a condo here in <br /> 2022... only to find out the egregiously limited parking available. Yet, the nearby single family <br /> homes have permits to park on our surrounding streets. I wonder, why are the same permits <br /> not available to us?What could possibly be the reason we are not afforded the same basic <br /> right to park on the streets near our homes? It is a preposterous thought that we, as condo <br /> owners, are somehow "less than." My fellow residents are not only inconvenienced by not <br /> having close street parking, but are, physically and financially, put at risk because of it. It is <br /> unacceptable. <br /> The complex here was built in the 1960s, and the existing parking infrastructure is insufficient <br /> for the amount of cars registered here. Our residents were once able to park in the <br /> surrounding streets when it was necessary, but ever since the permit parking program was <br /> implemented in our neighborhood (2005), it has become more and more difficult to find <br /> available parking. <br /> Our residents are regularly cited for parking on the streets that surround us. Several families <br /> simply sold their homes and left over the years because the dilemma was so unbearable. It <br /> has only gotten worse as time has passed. <br /> 5 <br />