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Orozco, Norma <br />From: Jose Rea <josejrea@gmail.com> <br />Sent: Tuesday, December 07, 2021 12:21 PM <br />To: eComment <br />Cc: eComment; Bacerra, Phil; Lopez, Jessie; Mendoza, Nelida; Penaloza, David; Phan, Thai; <br />Ridge, Kristine; Sarmiento, Vicente; Hernandez, Johnathan; Carvalho, Sonia R.; Adolfo <br />Sierra; Leone) Flores; Jabari Brown (clinic) <br />Subject: City of Santa Ana General Plan <br />December 7, 2021 <br />Santa Ana City Council, City Manager and City Attorney <br />Re: General Plan Update <br />Last year the Planning Commission delayed the approval of the City of Santa Ana General Plan due to the <br />insufficient and late efforts by the Building & Planning Agency to outreach and include environmentally <br />impacted communities in the process of developing the new plan as required by SB 1000. <br />While the city started the GPU review process in 2015, SB 1000 as anew law was implemented in 2018. The <br />advocacy efforts by the residents and community organizations resulted in the 2020 delay of the GPU before <br />its adoption by the previous city council. <br />As a voting resident of the city, I hope the current city council would be more receptive to address the serious <br />public health risks we are exposed to by polluting industries in the Madison Park Neighborhood and <br />surrounding communities, 21 neighborhoods across 17 census tracts are considered Environmental Justice <br />Communities in Santa Ana according the CaIEPA. I called them ENVIRONMENTAL INJUSTICE COMMUNITIES. <br />This is your opportunity to place the health of the residents you represent and who elected you as your top <br />priority, the way it should always be, above business and industry interests. Do not approve the current <br />version of the GPU, a one-year delay was not sufficient time and effort on the part of the city to educate and <br />significantly include the communities most impacted by environmental injustice. The GPU blueprint will stay <br />as the policy to follow for decades to come. It is your duty to improve the health outcomes of the current <br />population as well as the next generations. <br />Allow more time to continue to outreach to EJ communities, review and improve the current draft. <br />Jose Rea <br />Madison Park Neighborhood <br />