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DOWDALL LAW OFFICES A PROFESSIONAL CORPORATION ATTO R N EYS AT LAW City Council of the City of Santa Ana City of Santa Ana September 16, 2021 Page 21 9. Availability of housing will be affected by reason of the disincentive to build and maintain rental property in Los Angeles. Rent control regulations effect the flow of investment capital into the City due to the perceived adverse business climate. Other forms of business and commerce will fear additional regulation and seek location and relocation outside of the City, thus diminishing the tax base and the available revenues in which to address environmental problems in the City, such as a deteriorating sewer system. 10. The influx of participants to administrative hearings for apartment houses and mobile home parks throughout the city will result in far greater travel than before. Due to the reduction of the facilities and services provided to mobilehome parks and the deterioration of such services and facilities, mobilehome park residents will resort to other privately -provided or public -provided services and facilities, requiring additional travel, based on the under -market housing bargain received in their rentals. Likewise, disproportionately low housing costs will be a disincentive to relocation nearer to jobs, schools, and families. The use of the automobile will significantly increase traffic congestion due to the perceived need to avoid relocation due to the housing bargain received. 11. There will be significant changes in solid waste, litter, and refuse created by the disincentive to maintain services and facilities within mobilehome parks and within the individual trailers and mobilehomes in these communities and areas proximate thereto. 12. Based on increased commuter distances and traveling generally, there will be significant amounts of, and changes in, the levels of dust, ash, smoke, fumes, and odors in the environment. Additionally, changes will also occur in the degree of noise and vibration levels in the area caused by increased street traffic due to the avoidance of relocation. 13. Municipal services and the demand therefore will increase as the disincentive to maintain services in the mobilehome parks grow. 14. Based on increased commuter distances and traveling, there will be a substantial increase in the consumption of fossil fuels, electricity, oil, natural gas, gasoline, diesel fuel, and related consumption of resources. 15. The increase in disincentives for maintenance of the mobilehome parks may result in lack of maintenance of the real property, including a greater propensity for water erosion and other deterioration. 16. Due to the wind and water erosion, residents may therefore be subjected to additional hazards from geologic conditions such as slides, loss of watershed, and potential ground failure. 17. Based on the disproportionate housing bargain created by the rent law, increased commuter distances and traveling will occur which will alter the location, distribution, density, and growth rate of the human population in the area. -21-