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THRIVE Public Comments @ Planning Commission Meeting (Nov 8, 2021?) <br />Two key areas are still largely unaddressed: <br />The displacement of the longtime residents in Santa Ana's low income neighborhoods, <br />particularly youth, immigrants, renters, and other key vulnerable neighbors that are at the heart <br />and soul of Santa Ana's character as a City, and are an integral part of our identity and our <br />economy. <br />Environmental justice, too, has received a great deal of attention in the draft general plan, yet <br />clear solutions have not been established for the widespread ground contamination, <br />concentrated in low income neighborhoods of color <br />Environmental justice also includes the availability of healthy food, open space, healthy <br />living spaces, housing, and many other quality of life resources, including adequate civic <br />representation and economic opportunities, which are largely lacking in our low income <br />neighborhoods. The current draft of the general plan is lacking in concrete commitments in <br />these areas: <br />Language around ... <br />• Anti -displacement <br />• Tenant protections <br />• Community benefits <br />... is weak, and make no actual commitments on the part of the City other than more <br />meetings, without actual commitments to assure future development benefits existing residents <br />and neighborhoods <br />Completely missing <br />Community land trusts <br />Tenant opportunity to purchase <br />First right of return <br />Right of first refusal <br />Mitigation of ground contamination <br />The current draft goes so far as providing a private zoning code for developer Mike Harrah's <br />project One Broadway Plaza, despite historic community opposition to this project <br />Page 23 of the land use element provides for a new zoning code, <br />ONE BROADWAY PLAZA DISTRICT CENTER (OBPDC) , explicitly created for the benefit of a <br />developer <br />