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<br /> <br />Mayor Valerie Amezcua <br />Mayor Pro Tem Thai Viet Pham <br />Councilmember Benjamin Vazquez <br />Councilmember Jessie Lopez <br />Councilmember Phil Bacerra <br />Councilmember Johnathan Ryan Hernandez <br />Councilmember David Penaloza <br /> <br />City Council Chamber <br />20 Civic Center Plaza M-30 <br />Santa Ana, California 92701 <br /> <br />Re: Dec 3, 2024, City Council Meeting – Item 15 – Second Reading of Ordinance <br />Amendment (OA) No. 2024-04 Repealing and Reenacting in its Entirety Article <br />XXI to Chapter 8 of the Santa Ana Municipal Code (SAMC) Prohibiting Short- <br />Term Rentals (STRS) <br /> <br />I ask city council members to set a time frame to bring stakeholders and city staff to <br />back to the table and work in getting a short-term rental program & regulations that <br />benefit both the city and stakeholders. <br />th <br />As I stated in the November 19 city council meeting, we have had <br />meetings/conversations (via Zoom, face to face conversations and email <br />correspondence) with most of the city councilmembers and I thank the mayor for her <br />support in voting against the ordinance. A complete ban of short-term rentals is not <br />the answer and will not solve the housing affordability issue many cities face. <br />In the last city council meeting, we heard from a number of Unite 11 union members <br />asking city council to ban short-term rentals due to the lack of affordable housing <br />nd <br />opportunities within the city. During the April 2 city council public comment <br />section, the City of Irvine was quoted as one city who banned short term rentals in <br />2018 and as a result saw a decrease in rent by three percent over the next two years. <br />However, this decrease was short lived. In 2022, Irvine rents have increased to <br />27.2% (Hwang, J. Opinion: A Yes To The General Plan Housing Update Is A Yes <br />to The Future Of Irvine, Irvine WatchDog, Retrieved Dec 1, 2024, from <br />https://irvinewatchdog.org/city-hall/opinion-a-yes-to-the-future-of-irvine). <br />Furthermore, a CNN Business online article dated October 28, 2024, on housing <br />affordability, shows there has not been a consensus as to whether or not short-term <br />1 <br /> <br /> <br />