HomeMy WebLinkAbout2 - PUBLIC COMMENT_Rodriguez GFrom:Soto, Ricardo
To:Bernal, Sarah
Cc:McCann, Melanie
Subject:FW: General Plan
Date:Monday, November 09, 2020 4:12:57 PM
FYI
From: Gissell Rodriguez <gissellx14@gmail.com>
Sent: Monday, November 09, 2020 3:59 PM
To: New General Plan <NewGeneralPlan@santa-ana.org>
Subject: General Plan
My name is Gissell, and I am a resident of Santa Ana.
I am emailing you to ask that you delay the general plan process until appropriate
community outreach is conducted and the community’s concerns are fully addressed.
Here are a few things that concern me with the current proposed General Plan update:
· We need more community engagement, especially in the neighborhoods deemed
“disadvantaged communities”
· The issue of environmental injustice has not been properly assessed
· The City needs to develop a Public Health Action Plan to properly address the
urgent issue of toxic lead exposures in the City.
· Ensure tenant protections for residents who seek action on toxic lead exposures.
· Free blood testing for residents who might have been exposed to lead
· Reducing cumulative impacts from pollution by limiting the number of facilities in the
area and no new industry in the area until community is consulted and their
demands are met
· Establish caps on cumulative air pollution and base permitting decisions on overall
emissions, not emissions per facility. Close or move polluters.
· Reduce exposure to pollution by cleaning up existing air pollution and creating
buffer zones between polluters and homes, schools, and daycare facilities
· Install barriers or other mitigation of noise pollution
· The City should prioritize preserving existing open space and NOT development
that does not provide direct benefits to the existing residents, like market-rate
housing, hotels, big corporate business, should not be allowed on current open
space.
· The City should finalize its Park and Recreation Master Plan before the adoption of
the General Plan to ensure that policies are in place to address the deficit that will
be caused by the increase in development.
· Market-rate and commercial development should not be incentivized at the current
rate if it means outpacing the supply of open space
· Invest more in parks and green space, more trees, green industry, community
centers, libraries, clinics
· Include anti-displacement policies in transit-oriented development, like the OC
Streetcar route, Main St., Bristol St., etc.
· Place housing affordability requirements in transit-oriented development and rest of
the focus areas
· Ensure the street growth strategy does not lead to the displacement of residents.
· Transform current traffic enforcement practices toward non-lethal methods that
decriminalizes traffic safety.
· Prioritize people most at risk on the street- add policy that measures safety from the
barriers to travel while being a woman, queer, trans, senior, youth, (the most
vulnerable).
· Prioritize shade trees or fruit trees.
· Add parking on arterial streets to reduce vehicular, bicycle, and pedestrian conflicts,
slow traffic speeds, and create human-leveled arterial streets.
· Make transit free for Santa Ana residents
Please delay the adoption of the General Plan until these concerns are addressed
and more and better community engagement is conducted.