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LAW OFFICE OF JAMES P. BALLAWINE ATTORNEY AT LAW 329 EAST ANAPAMU STREET SANTA BARBARA, CALIFORNIA 93101 (805)962-2201 (805) 564-2M — FAcsIMILE JPB@BALLANTINELAW.COM - E-MAIL August 29, 2023 By Electronic Mail: City Clerk Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, and Members of the City Council Santa Ana City Council 22 Civic Center Plaza Santa Ana, California 92701 Re: Opposition to Agenda Item 21 — Supermajority Motion August 29, 2023 Santa Ana City Council Special Meeting Dear Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem, and Members of the City Council: I represent Park Management of Taggin Wagon Mobile Home Park located at 2767 West 1st Street, in the City of Santa Ana. I am writing to OPPOSE the proposal set forth in Agenda Item 21 of your special meeting set for today that the City Council consider directing the preparation of an Ordinance ("Proposed Ordinance") to amend the City's Rent Stabilization and Just Cause Eviction Ordinance ("Rent Ordinance") to require a supermajority approval of the total number of Councilmembers for certain future amendments to that Rent Ordinance. The supermajority requirement imposed under the Proposed Ordinance is ill-conceived and ill-advised. If enacted, the Proposed Ordinance would be in patent violation of state law and the City's own Charter, and therefore illegal and void. Moreover, enactment of the Proposed Ordinance would offend all fundamental principles of democratic governance and the rule of law. If the City Council were to engage in such a gambit, it would subject the City and the members of the City Council to further legal proceedings, and subject the taxpayers to yet additional unnecessary legal expenses and costs. The Rent Ordinance itself is of dubious legality and is already being challenged in the Courts. Singling out the Rent Ordinance for this unprecedented and illegal treatment of