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Home My WebLink AboutCORRESPONDENCE - NON-AGENDACity Council Meeting Correspondence 6/4/2019 Mobilehome Rent Stabilization Non - Agenda IRA -Recommended Action Thursday, June 06, 2019 Page 1 of 1 Orozco, Norma From: Houston, Nicole Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2019 1:20 PM To: eComment Subject: FW: Please consider a Rent Stabilization Ordinance to protect mobilehomes in your city Kind Regards, Nicole Houston [ Executive Assistant City Manager's Offices nhouston@santa-ana.orx 714.647.5200 120 Civic Center Plaza l Santa Ana, CA 92701 This email and any files or attachments transmitted with it may contain privileged or otherwise confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient, or believe that you may have received this communication in error, please advise the sender via reply email and immediately delete the email you received. From: CAROL BRINKMAN [ Sent: Monday, June 03, 2019 6:05 PM To: Pulido, Miguel <MPulido@santa-ana.org>; Sarmiento, Vicente <VSarmiento@santa-ana.org>; Penaloza, David <DPenaloza@santa-ana.org>; Solorio, Jose <JSolorio@santa-ana.org>; Villegas, Juan <JVillegas@santa-ana.org>; Iglesias, Cecilia <Clglesias@santa-ana.org>; City Council <CityCouncil@santa-ana.org> Subject: Please consider a Rent Stabilization Ordinance to protect mobilehomes in your city. Honorable Mayor and Santa Ana Councilmembers, Please listen to the urgent pleas of the mobilehome residents in your city to stop exorbitant rent increases by implementing a Rent Stabilization Ordinance to protect them from excessive space rent increases — and, to protect the park owners by providing them a process to receive a fair and justifiable return on their investment if they feel the automatic CPI increases are not enough. I speak from first hand experience. I live in El Nido Mobilehome Estates located in San Juan Capistrano. Our City has a MH rent stabilization ordinance that ties annual rent increases to the CPI-U. It was designed to provide a balance of affordable housing for seniors and low-income families in accordance with the SJC Housing Element and in recognition that mobilehomes are a form of unsubsidized affordable housing. Our city understood the need to protect these unique groups. In 2016, when my park owner tried to raise my $600 space rent by $641 instead of the $8 allowed by the CPI, there was a process to follow that was prescribed by the Ordinance. The residents filed a protest with the City claiming the increase was excessive, and the Park owner had the opportunity to "justify" his desired rent increase as "fair" in front of an outside, unbiased Hearing Officer. In the end, the Park owner was able to justify a $37 increase. It was a win for him who got more than the CPI, and a win for the residents who paid less than the $641 requested. Our Rent Stabilization Ordinance did what it was suppose to do. It protected vulnerable lower -income citizens from egregious space rent increases by providing a protest process! And it protected the Park owner by I providing him an annual steady, reliable income per the CPI, as well as an avenue for an additional increase commensurate with what he could reasonably justify. Please consider with compassion and wisdom the value of adopting a protective Rent Stabilization Ordinance for mobilehome residents in Santa Ana. It will provide MH Park owners with an annual income that rises with the cost of living, as well as an avenue for an additional increase beyond that if they can justify it. And, it will give Santa Ana authority to keep rents affordable in your city. And it will provide MH residents with security that they can afford to stay in their homes and not lose them due to egregious rent increases. Thank you, Carol Brinlnnan Resident, El Nido MHEstates ( Orozco, Norma From: Qui Vuong < Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2019 2:10 PM To: eComment Subject: REVISED Prepared remarks for City Council meeting June 4, 2019 Dear Mr. Mayor and city council members: I am appealing to your compassion and humanity for the devastated senior residents at Bali Hi Mobile Homes Lodge inside your city's jurisdiction. The June 1, deadline came and went without intervention from the city. The "life altering crisis" that has befallen us has not gone away. Everyday, these affected senior citizens belonging to your city are becoming more downtrodden, more anxious, more depressed, and more susceptible illness and unwanted outcomes because of this unconscionable rent increase. How many more parks will become affected before you act? How many more casualties to "predatory Rent Gouging" will you tolerate, before you act? What would it take for you to see this "Affordable Housing" injustice for what it is, and do something about it? Please don't just listen to one-sided propaganda without verifying for proof. Reach out to the victims for details. Your 288-page staff report did not do so. Many of us at Bali Hi are holding our checks until June 5th, when we will submit payment "under protest," with the hope that the City of Santa Ana will pass a "Rent Stabilization" ordinance soon, in order to protect the vulnerable "poor and disadvantaged" in this great city from eventually becoming homeless. Per the city council's invaluable suggestion from city council meetings on April 6, 2019 and May 2, 2019, affected residents at Bali Hi have participated in a widespread letter writing campaign to the Park owner, bypassing the oppressive park manager. Copies of those letters are being submitted electronically for your review and record through ecommentksanta-ana.org, to be supplemented and updated at https://santaana.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view id=2&clip id=2346&meta id=89044 Please help stop the untold emotional and psychological trauma that are being inflicted on the innocent victims from lasting one more day than necessary. Please help us. Please don't forget us. WA Subject: [EXTERNAL] Fwd: Mrs. Edge's concerns To: Sent via my Samsung Galaxy, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone -------- Original message -------- From: Pam Sapetto< Date: 5/15/19 6:31 PM (GMT-08:00) To: vjedge < Cc: Tim O'Brien < Subject: Mrs. Edge's concerns Dear Judy, Date: 05/30/19 02:32 PM From: Thank you for your email and letting us know the issues that are deeply concerning to you. You had asked me to send the total fees we have estimated we would be paying: They are: $2.78 M in Affordable In lieu fees $350,000 in Building Permit fees $818,000 in DIF/Park Fees $655,000 in School Fees $201,000 in TSIA Fees $571,000 in San Joaquin Hills TCA Fees As you can see, the majority of these fees are earmarked for a particular purpose: affordable housing, Park improvements, School fees which go directly to SAUSD, and transportation fees. The $571,000 fee goes directly to the San Joaquin Hills Transportation Corridor Agency. In addition the City will be receiving over the next 25 years $14.4 million in general fund revenue from this project. You also noted that while previous projects in your area have paid fees and created revenue, there doesn't appear to have been improvements made in your neighborhood with those dollars. We are sympathetic with your view that the City should earmark funds generated by this project and previous projects for the long term improvement of your neighborhood. As far as advocacy to the City for keeping the neighborhood safe, clean and beautiful, we plan to be a permanent member of the Sandpointe HOA and will 3VA j C-4 be part of your HOA team advocating to the City that their priority on allocating funds generated by our area be used in our area and on keeping Sandpointe the beautiful and livable neighborhood it is today. Please don't hesitate to let us know of any other concerns you may have. Sincerely, Pamela Pamela Sapetto Principal, Sapetto Real Estate Solutions, Inc From: vjedge < Date: Tuesday, May 14, 2019 at 2:10 PM To: Pamela Sapetto < Subject: <no subject> Pam, Please allow me take your time to read the additional comments I have in regards to my 3 issues. You know your project will be approved! I am pushing for Sunflower and my neighborhood streets to look as wonderful as the Costa Mesa projects. Knowing your project will be approved I am pleading that you and Tim use your enormous influence on the city to improve this area. Santa Ana side of Sunflower should look as good as Costa Mesa. Your project is so classy, our street deserves the same. Surely it will enhance the units. You are having to pay so much money in developer fees. The city should have to spend these funds for the items I've brought up. Please help!!!! Last night I heard $800,000 in lieu of park funds. This money could be set aside for our streets. The Mark paid $1.6 million in lieu of park funds and Sandpointe Park never saw a dollar. But we get the dogs and parking problems. I hope you and Tim will dicuss these items with the City Manager Kristine Ridge and Public Works Director Fuad Sweiss. Thank you for your consideration. Judy Edge Sent via my Samsung Galaxy, an AT&T 4G LTE smartphone City of Santa Ana Street ID: 104300 Begin Location: BIRCH ST Section ID: 2000 End Location: TIMBER ST Street Name: AURORA AV Functional Class: Local (T) Length (ft): 332 Surface Type: AC/AC Slab Width: 0.00 General Code: Funding Source: Comments: Larking Lot Type: Maintenance Rehabilitation History Section Summary Printed: 04/04/2019 Constructed: 04/01/1968 No. Lanes: 2 Width (ft): 32 Area (sq ft): 12,686 Slab Length: 0.00 # of Slabs: 0 Area ID: 13 SANDPOINTE Maint. Date Treatment Sq. Ft. Thickness 11/14/2014 SURFACE TREATMENT - SLURRY SEAL - TYPE iI 0 0 Inspection History Inspection Date: 03/0412014 Inspection # Lonth 1 100.00 2 100.00 Section PCI: 94 Area No Distresses 3200.00 3200.00 Inspection Date: 06/09/2016 Section PCB: 94 Inspection # Length Area No Distresses 1 100.00 3200,00 ..__. _._Special 2 100.00 3200,00 ❑ Q' Inspection Date: 02/05/2018 Section PCI: 93 Inspection # Length Area No Distresses Special 1 100.00 3200,00 PCI after M&R Cost Maint. 96 $0 ------------ Criteria: Section - 104300 -2000 1 MTC StreetSaver SS1054