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<br />1the City to other locations could have significant environmental impacts, includingair quality <br /> <br />2 impacts resulting from increased vehicle emissions from people traveling farther distances to their <br /> <br />3 vacation destinations or temporary/transitory places of employment and residence. The Rental <br /> <br />4 Alliance further pointed out that the City must also analyze the potential increased greenhouse gas <br /> <br />5 emissions resulting from the additional vehicle trips, the potential land use impacts from increased <br /> <br />6 construction of alternative overnight accommodations (hotels and motels) to make up for the loss <br /> <br />7 in overnight accommodations that STRs currently provide, and the potential urban decay if the ban <br /> <br />8 ultimately makes it impossible for homeowners to afford their homes and causes business to <br /> <br />9 shutter given decline in revenue. <br /> <br />10 47. The City Council also ignored correspondence from the Rental Alliance explaining <br /> <br />11 the ban would have a drastic economic impact on STR owners because all income earned from <br /> <br />12 STRs would be immediately eliminated, and that property owners could lose their homes if they <br /> <br />13 are unable to operate STRs. It also ignored statements that many homeowners purchased homes <br /> <br />14 in the City with the reasonable expectation that they would operate them as STRs, because the <br /> <br />15 -current ordinances permitted such use. <br /> <br />16 48. And the City Council further failed to address correspondence explaining, among <br /> <br />17 other things: <br /> <br />18 The proposed ban would, in effect, convert currently legal STRs into immediately <br /> <br />19 illegal nonconforming uses, and that terminating these legal nonconforming uses <br /> <br />20 in this way would violate longstanding California law; <br /> <br />21 Hosts had already agreed to rent their property on a short-term basis to guests in <br /> <br />22 upcoming months, and that an immediate ban on STRs would invalidate those <br /> <br />23 contractual obligations of STR owners in violation of their constitutional rights. <br /> <br />24 Nothing in the staff reports presented to the City Council demonstrated that STRs <br /> <br />25 in Santa Ana constituted a public nuisance; <br /> <br />26 The City lacked any evidence of the negative effect of STRs on housing availability <br /> <br />27 in the City; <br /> <br />28 <br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> VERIFIED PETITION FOR WRIT OF MANDATE <br />AND COMPLAINT <br />13 <br /> <br /> <br />