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<br />Hall, Jennifer <br />From:Lopez, Jessie <br />Sent:Friday, September 27, 2024 5:09 PM <br />To:eComment <br />Subject:FW: Related Bristol <br /> <br />From: Katie Perez < <br />Sent: Friday, September 27, 2024 3:05 PM <br />To: Amezcua, Valerie <VAmezcua@santa-ana.org>; Bacerra, Phil <pbacerra@santa-ana.org>; Penaloza, David <br /><DPenaloza@santa-ana.org>; Lopez, Jessie <JessieLopez@santa-ana.org>; Vazquez, Benjamin <bvazquez@santa- <br />ana.org>; Hernandez, Johnathan <JRyanHernandez@santa-ana.org>; Bristol@related.com <br />Subject: Related Bristol <br /> <br /> Attention: This email originated from outside of City of Santa Ana. Use caution when opening attachments or links. <br />Esteemed City Council Members, <br /> <br />As a resident of the South Coast Metro neighborhood in Ward 4, I strongly oppose the proposed Related Bristol <br />development. Nobody in this neighborhood wants or needs increased traffic. Nobody is asking for luxury <br />apartments to be built where our community shopping center is. Very few people who already live in this area <br />will be able to afford the rent for luxury apartments, so you will be pushing working class people out of their <br />neighborhood and adding to the affordable housing crisis. I love Santa Ana and I love this neighborhood, please <br />stop trying to gentrify her. <br /> <br />We all agree that shopping center needs to be revitalized, but please do anything else with it other than building <br />ugly high-rise apartments that nobody asked for. Build hotels if you want to build them there, but the traffic in <br />this neighborhood can't support that many additional residents. If anyone actually believes that the people who <br />"live in those apartments will work where they live" needs to wake up and join us in real life because those <br />people will have jobs elsewhere and they will commute in their car to their jobs. <br /> <br />What will this development add to our community? What will it do to address the homeless problem our <br />neighborhood currently has? The homeless people who sleep on Bristol can't afford luxury apartment rent. <br />Don't say it will address the homeless problem because the "affordable" housing you are offering is for seniors <br />and it will do nothing to alleviate us on Bristol who have to deal with homeless people doing drugs in our parks <br />and in the neighborhoods that are already here. <br /> <br />Do something meaningful with the opportunity you have to redevelop this space. Build real affordable housing <br />for working families, build a homeless shelter or a drug rehab facility. Something that will actually be better for <br />our existing community instead of trying to replace us all with rich people. <br /> <br />Thank you, <br /> <br />Katie Perez <br />Bristol and Segerstom resident <br /> <br /> <br />1 <br />