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Orozco, Norma From: Roberts, Dana <Dana.Roberts@camoves.com> Sent: Tuesday, July 18, 2023 4:10 PM To: eComment Cc: Bacerra, Phil Subject: Phil Bacerra's Request Item#39 Importance: High I fully support Council Member Bacerra's item to address public intoxication and open-air drug use. Allowing this to continue to happen is enabling them to do drugs. It is destroying our city. We do not want to become San Fran where businesses (large & small) & home owners are fleeing the city resulting in a loss of jobs and tax revenue. I have lived here for nearly 20 years. DTSA did a great job at revitalizing itself between 2003-2018 but since the passage of AB 109, Prop 47, Prop 57 & COVID shut downs, DTSA is slowly moving backwards losing nationally recognized restaurants and various businesses that created a buzz & influx of visitors for the city. especially downtown. It was safe and walkable with a vibrant art scene. Several residents in DTSA and neighbors from other SA communities are scared to go down there, especially at night, because of the drug use, homeless and transients. Allowing drug use in the open is only going to continue to drive down values resulting in less tax revenue for our city. SA is wasting money constantly cleaning the beautiful parkways & parks that are continuously being destroyed by these transients doing drugs. Driving down Bristol sometimes looks like a third world country day or night, with people laying on the ground strung out (sometimes half naked), make shift camps, prostitution, people peeing & pooping on the fake grass, trash, illegal dirty taco stands, etc... CA is attracting transients, drug users from other states because it has become soft on crime and drugs! Did you know that a homeless encampment that was dismantled in LA about a year ago had nearly 330+ people squatting in a beautiful park & was mainly made up of people NOT FROM CA. These people were doing drugs, prostitution, theft, killing ducks from the pond and leaving feces all over, which is a whole other environmental issue. When Steve Gregory from KFI researched the camp, he found out that only approx. 10% were locals. The rest were from other counties, states and 3 were from other countries. There was even a child molester from Colorado with a warrant out for his arrest hiding in that camp. The point is, these drug users communicate with each other and relay to each other where they can do drugs without getting in trouble leading to more and more drugs use in the open, more homeless, more feces, more environment issues, more crime, etc... Start protecting law abiding residents and enforce the laws. The bleeding-heart tactic/approach has only made the problem worse not only here but across the state. Allowing the problem to grow costs us more money to resolve it. Stop it now and save us, the tax payers and the city, millions of dollars down the road. KEEP SANTA ANA SAFE & DRUG FREE! Stay Safe, Stay Healthy, Stay Positive! i