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�6�' Western Manufactured Housing Communiti,es, October 3, 2023 Mayor Valerie Amezcua City of Santa Ana 22 Civic Center Plaza Santa Ana, CA 92701 RE: Item 16- Consider Options Presented Regarding Whether to Affirm the City Council's Adoption of the Rent Stabilization and Just Cause Eviction Ordinance and/or Whether to Amend the Rent Stabilization and Just Cause Eviction Ordinance to Require Two -Thirds Approval of all of the Members of the Santa Ana City Council to Amend the Ordinance in the Future. Dear Mayor Amezcua, Western Manufactured Housing Communities Association (WMA) is a statewide trade association representing mobilehome community owners throughout California and many in the City of Santa Ana. We oppose options 2 thru 5 of the staff recommendations. The entire ordinance and the process used to study and adopt was and continues to be broken with questionable conflicts of interest and admitted violations of the state's Brown Act. The City of Santa Ana is defending at least three lawsuits pertaining to the rent control ordinance. In the staff report, staff admits that the ordinance was adopted questionably because they are recommending the council to affirm (or cure) a past council's illegal adoption of the ordinance, as one of the lawsuits alleges. Yet no open discussion about the violation and exactly how a new vote remedies the existing ordinance. I wish to reiterate, that industry representatives have been asked by the city to come to the table and "work together" to implement this rent control ordinance and regulations on rental housing. Abusive power grabs like this indicate that the council majority is not earnest in a desire to work with all stakeholders. Instead, the council majority and city staff put their collective thumb on the scale in favor of tenants time and time again: passing the most onerous, sub -inflationary rent control ordinance in the state, stacking the make-up of the rent board with more tenants than Western Manufactured Housing ComfnUnities Association Sacramento Office: