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project) though 4th street having again only informed "a few individual businesses" as was stated by City Manager David Cavazos in the first EIR proceeding on June 14, 2014 where only two business owners, out of 10 other residents who were in attendance, had attended. After inquiring further along the Fourth Street Corridor as to who had been. informed it was found that a majority of the businesses along the corridor were uniformed about the upcoming project. This is disturbing because the businesses know that the city has no problem of communicating with business owners when they have a code violation, as only months before many of the businesses along the fourth street corridor were unsuspectingly ticketed for code violations during the Cisco de Mayo Event. This showing that the city has every ability to inform businesses of violations yet seem to have little ability to inform them of processes that may well affect their livelihood for years to come. It is felt by many that this guideway running down Fourth Street in fact constitutes not only a disenfranchisement but also a disservice to much of the Merchant constituency along this street. Another concern is with regard to the Santa Anita Neighborhood directly behind the Willowick Golf Course. There are already visible signs of displacement occurring in I this neighborhood and there are concerns about how the this guideway project will further affect the prospect of displacement of the residents in this neighborhood: For all of the above stated reason as well as the following reasons 1.) Lack of inclusion in the planning process, 2.) Questionable objectives for specified project, ', sorting 3.) Project costs 4.) Disruptive construction, vacant properties, displacement, and 5.) Public safety issues, this statement of opposition not only opposes this project route but also request an Equity Assessment be. done to mitigate further affects in the rest of the city in relation to of unequal investment, borders, invisibilization, spatial hgmogencity, exclusion from governance, serial displacement and social disintegration, all the injuries that would be caused by further sorting in the city of Santa Ana. The requirement fora transport equity analysis was initiated by U.S. Executive Order 12898 (1994) codified a renewed concern about the effects of the government's activities on minority and low- income populations. Sincerely, Madeleine Spencer President Emmanuel Ceballos Vice President 75A -99 8 -3 cont. 8 -4 M