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Orozco, Norma <br /> From: Angela Capoccia <info@sg.actionnetwork.org> <br /> Sent: Sunday, June 05, 2022 5:27 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 homeowner here at Hillview Regency Condominiums located in Ward 3. 1 am a 35 <br /> year old single woman living with my 20 year old niece and we cannot get her a car of her <br /> own because it is unsafe to park it. Because of your discriminatory parking permit policies, I <br /> would have to have one of us park a mile form my home and walk in, which is incredibly <br /> unsafe. <br /> My fellow residents and I have struggled for many years with the permit parking program that <br /> surrounds our condos. Our residents were once able to park in the surrounding streets when <br /> it was necessary, but ever since the permit parking program was implemented in our <br /> neighborhood (2005), it has become more and more difficult to find available parking. <br /> Somehow, despite the fact I paid over$4,000 in property taxes last year and lord only knows <br /> how much in city gas and sales tax, I am unable to park near my home. <br /> Our residents are regularly cited for parking on the streets that surround us. Yet, despite the <br /> fact that public street maintenance is paid for by all of us, only single family homes are <br /> allowed to use it. Not because they need it most, in fact they need it the least, but because <br /> our city has put in place a policy that says single family homes are the only people who <br /> matter. I would never have decided to live in Santa Ana had I know that economic <br /> discrimination was not only tolerated, but enforced by the city. <br /> If the permit parking program is to continue in our city, we ask that the public works <br /> department make allowances for residents of our complex to purchase our own permits to <br /> park on the neighborhood streets so that we too can come home and not have to fret over <br /> where we will leave our vehicles over night. <br /> 3 <br />