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Flores, Dora <br />From: Sheri Menke (via Google Docs) <sherimenke@gmail.com> <br />Sent: Tuesday, April 2, 2024 2:16 PM <br />To: eComment <br />Subject: Sheri Menke, Morrison Park, Santa Ana, CA 2024.04.02 <br />Attention: This email originated from outside of City of Santa Ana. Use caution when opening attachments or links. <br />Sheri Menke attached a document <br />Sheri Menke (sherimenke@gmail.com) has attached the following <br />document: <br />Sheri Menke, Morrison Park, Santa Ana, CA 2024.04.02 <br />Snapshot of the item below: <br />Sheri Menke, Morrison Park, Santa Ana, CA <br />Re: Short Term Rentals in Santa Ana, CA <br />Good evening and thank you for being here, please vote NO on agenda item <br />#21 and ask the staff for sensible regulation of short term rentals. This rushed <br />ordinance doesn't give time to provide feedback and violates the principles of the <br />democratic process. Protect the many benefits short term rentals bring to our <br />community! <br />This is my story. My husband and I bought our home in the Morrison Park <br />neighborhood in 2014 when my husband was called to be a pastor at St. Peter <br />Lutheran Church in the Willard Neighborhood. After moving into our home we shortly <br />learned that one of our neighbors was renting out two of her back rooms as short term <br />rental units. I was less than thrilled, but decided to observe and see what it was like <br />living next to an STIR. It was life changing! Travelers brought beauty, language, culture <br />and diversity to our neighborhood and to my life. It also brought me much needed <br />income! My neighbor and I became good friends and I was a young mom with 4 kids <br />and one on the way, it was very difficult to find employment. My neighbor hired me to <br />clean and help as her co host when she was away. <br />It was because of these experiences and using STR's ourselves that when my <br />husband was called to serve at a new church we wanted to make our home in Santa <br />Ana a short term rental. We started our small business in 2017 and applied for a <br />residential rental business license, which I renew each year. This is still the only home <br />that our family owns and we stay there regularly. <br />