Public Comments — Orange City Council, June 14, 2022

June 14, 2022
City Council Meeting
Public Comments
General Public
Comment
Jennifer Connally
From: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2022 8:48 PN
To: Pamela Coleman; Jennifer Connally
Subject: New eComment for City Council
New eComment for City Council
Adrienne Gladson submitted a new eComment.

Meeting: City Council
Item: 2. PUBLIC COMMENTS
eComment: I received notice of the release of the Notice of Preparation for the North Tustin Specific Plan via email on June 3, 2022 at 2:22pm. The notice stated that the public comment period started on June 1st and runs thru Thursday, July 1st. Since the notice was emailed to me and | assume the balance of the folks on this interest list on June 3. 2022. I believe the comment period should be extended to July 5th, as July 3rd is a Sunday and July 4th Independence Day, and my birthday, to 5 pm on July 5. Thank for your consideration. Adrienne Gladson, AICP View and Analyze eComments
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Item 7.2
Requests for Permit
Parking on the south
side of Collins
Avenue east of Hart
Street & both sides of
Citrus Street between
Walnut and
Sycamore
Jennifer Connally
From: Selena Kelaher
Sent: Monday, June 13, 2022 10:07 PM
To: City Council Public Comment
Subject: Agenda Item No 7.2 - City Council, June 14, 2022 Honorable Mayor and Members of the City Council,
We are the homeowners of 409 N. Citrus Street. We are in support of the parking permit program for North Citrus Street. Additionally, we are writing to ask that you move forward with the staff's recommendation to approve the implementation of a Neighborhood Parking Permit Program for North Citrus Street.

The lack of street parking has been a continuous issue on Citrus Street. There have been situations where we or our guests cannot even park on our street, let alone in front of our house. I have witnessed people parking in front of my house and walk to the apartments on Batavia Street or multi-family housing on Sycamore Street. In addition, the staff report and observations from the Public Works Division demonstrate that there is only 20% of the street parking available which is not a lot considering it is likely not in front of your house, or requires parallel parking, or results in spaces that may not be sufficient for a standard vehicle to park. While I understand the street is public parking, people will park their cars there for several days without moving it and also park carelessly without consideration for others. We have had to call parking enforcement in a few instances as people have blocked our driveway making it difficult to leave our house which is unacceptable with two small children that may have an emergency situation.

The neighborhood has submitted the necessary application, fees, and responses (83% in support and 0% in opposition) in order to proceed with the permit parking process for our street. Thank you for your time and support.

Ryan and Selena Kelaher
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Item 7.4
Proposed FY 2022-
23 Budget and 5 year
CIP
Pamela Coleman
Subject: FW: El Camino Handball court Mural - Item 7.4
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>----Original Message----.
> From: swkjb
> Sent: Sunday, June 5, 2022 10:10 PM
> To: Mark Murphy <[email protected]>
> Cc: [email protected]
> Subject: El Camino Handball court Mural
>
> Honorable Mayor Murphy and Council members,
>
> As you may recall, I spoke during public comments regarding a beautification project at El Camino Park, a beautiful City of Orange themed Mural.
> I have had not yet heard from my Mayor or City council members regarding my comments at the meeting. I reached out to Robert Ambriz Jr. of Orange City community services about the Mural. > He stated that he believes it is coming up on the agenda this Tuesday June, 7, 2022 in the Annual City budget for July 2022 to January 2023 ?
> If this is so, I would like to request that the City consider a one time diversion of $20,000 Dollars from the annual park fees paid by Chapman University to fund the Mural.
> I would also like to request that the City consider utilizing Damin Lujan as the Muralist. Damin met and spoke to the Parks and Special Events Committee, and they were unanimously in favor of this project, and Damin's discounted fee for this project of $20,000.
> I appreciate your time and consideration,
> Kimberly Bottomley
>
>
Jennifer Connally
From: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2022 12:34 PM
To: Pamela Coleman; Jennifer Connally
Subject: New eComment for City Council
New eComment for City Council
Adrienne Gladson submitted a new eComment.

Meeting: City Council
Item: 7.4. Proposed Fiscal Year 2022-2023 City of Orange Budget and Five-Year Capital Improvement Program.
eComment: I request Council continue to a date uncertain the Fee Schedule changes (Item 4; Reso No. 11400) for 22/23 budget year. There is a need to scrutinize and reform to our citizen appeal fees and process in an open, honest, and fair manner. Citizens who want to exercise their right to appeal any decision are being discouraged to do so by the cost. It's time to make the appeal process fair and less costly for those a limited purse. Thank you for your consideration, respectfully, Adrienne Gladson, AICP Details and Proper Planning Matter! View and Analyze eComments
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Jennifer Connally
From: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2022 5:42 PM
To: Pamela Coleman; Jennifer Connally
Subiect: New eComment for City Council
New eComment for City Council
Jake Comer submitted a new eComment.

Meeting: City Council
Item: 7.4. Proposed Fiscal Year 2022-2023 City of Orange Budget and Five-Year Capital Improvement Program.
eComment: I recently read the City of Orange's local newspaper that talked about expanding Police and Fire Departments in an effort to strategically plan a "vision for the City," as councilmember Chip Monaco stated. They've also asked for community needs, and I wanted to voice mine: The Citizens of Orange desire a secure climate future. I have not heard any mention of a Building Electrification (BE) program or Climate Action Plan in the upcoming Fiscal Year budget, and I strongly believe these items will help to reduce the City's emissions and lead to cleaner air quality. Climate Change is already impacting us as we are in the third year of a severe drought and are in a stage 2 drought response. The Climate Crisis is a serious threat that I hope the City will do everything it can to address. Thank you. - Sincerely John Comer, Orange Resident
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1 Jennifer Connally
From: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2022 5:49 PM
To: Pamela Coleman; Jennifer Connally
Subject: New eComment for City Council
New eComment for City Council
Tomas Castro submitted a new eComment.

Meeting: City Council
Item: 7.4. Proposed Fiscal Year 2022-2023 City of Orange Budget and Five-Year Capital Improvement Program.
eComment: Dear Councilmembers, My name is Tomas Castro and I am a young resident and climate advocate with Citizens' Climate Lobby (CCL). I want to use my comments today to encourage the council to take proactive measures to address climate change that have thus far not been been taken in the city. Firstly, as it relates to the city budget, it is imperative that we resist the urge to further fund police and fire departments while neglecting investments into sustainability policy and staff. By investing into a robust staff of sustainability experts, Orange can match the efforts of other cities in OC that are taking efforts to combat the climate crisis, such as Irvine. Secondly, it is important that the City of Orange pass a comprehensive Climate Action Plan to reduce emissions by 2030, like the City of Irvine's ACHIEVES Resolution that was passed last year. Lastly, I want to stress how important a Building Electrification program would be for reducing indoor air pollution and emissions from buildings. By electrifying new construction and incentivizing the electrification of old buildings, Orange can drastically reduce carbon pollution without waiting from action at the national level. Thank you.

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Item 10.1
Public Health Goals
Report for 2019, 2020
and 2021
Jennifer Connally
From: Janice Brownfield
Sent: Sunday, June 12, 2022 7:18 PM
To: City Council Public Comment
Subject: Public Comment Item # 10.1
While the City of Orange water system may meet all federal and state drinking water standards, there were four exceptions during the last three years in which it did not meet all of the state's Public Health Goals or the federal government's Maximum Contaminant Level Goals. Contaminants found in our water wells caused the City of Orange to be one of the plaintiffs in the lawsuit filed 12/1/20 in Orange County Superior Court against 3M, DuPont and others.

Orange County Water District is the lead plaintiff in the lawsuit, which states the City of "Orange owns, operates, and maintains a public water system with over 36,000 connections. One or more of Orange's potable water wells have exceeded regulatory limits for PFOS and/or PFOA." Contaminants entered the Orange County Groundwater Basin primarily via the Santa Ana River which received treated wastewater discharges and stormwater runoff from upstream areas in San Bernardino and Riverside counties. While the lawsuit is pending, old water treatment facilities are being replaced, including a well in Orange.

The City of Orange and the other plaintiffs allege that exposure to the contaminants "has been associated with several negative health outcomes in both humans and animals, including, but not limited to: a. Altered growth, learning, and behavior of infants and older children; b. Lowering a woman's chance of getting pregnant; c. Interference with the body's natural hormones; d.

Increased cholesterol levels; e. Modulation of the immune system; f. Increased risk of certain cancers; and g. Increased risk of ulcerative colitis."
Both the water and air quality in our urban heat island is worsened by pollutants from industry, vehicles and people. Already this year we have had many days of "unhealthy" and "poor" air quality caused by pollutants, especially fossil fuel emissions, coming in contact with sunlight, creating ground-level ozone, also known as smog, and accelerated by high temperatures. The air quality could be improved by reducing the heat emanating from asphalt street pavements with light-colored sealants that reflect the sun. Renewable energy sources including solar and wind would also decrease the heat and pollution caused by greenhouse gas emissions from fossil fuels.

Item 10.3
Landscape
Maintenance
Assessment Districts
86-2 (Santiago Hills),
and 15-1 (Santiago
Hills Overlay) Final
Engineer's Reports
for FY 2022-2023
Pamela Coleman
From: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2022 4:50 PM
To: Pamela Coleman; Jennifer Connally
Subject: New eComment for City Council
New eComment for City Council
Jess Barber submitted a new eComment.

However with the increased fees I would again urge you to switch to organic land management.

Which means no more synthetic herbicides like RoundUp and Speedzone. While many towns and cities are organic, Orange remains steadfast in spraying these toxic chemicals that are linked to cancer in our neighborhood. Our Santiago Hills Park is beautiful and completely non- toxic. Why not make our entire neighborhood organic? Setting health impacts of our neighborhood aside, as of last fall the prices of Roundup have soared, it does not make financial sense to use it any more at this point. Bayer has made the decision to pull the sale of Glyphosate (roundup) for residential use starting in 2023 due to mounting lawsuits and liability.

This is the perfect time to find a more healthy way to manage our landscaping. We do not want these chemicals sprayed in our neighborhoods around our children and pets. We need to have another community town hall to discuss our options and our vision for our neighborhood. Even the local HOAs around Santiago Hills are going or already are successfully organic. Now is the time to go organic. Thank you for your time, Jess Barber View and Analyze eComments
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Jennifer Connally
From: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2022 5:08 PM
To: Pamela Coleman; Jennifer Connally
Subject: New eComment for City Council
New eComment for City Council
Kimberly DeLehman submitted a new eComment.

Meeting: City Council
Item: 10.3. Public Hearing to consider approval of the Landscape Maintenance Assessment Districts 86-2 (Santiago Hills), and 15-1 (Santiago Hills Overlay) Final Engineer's Reports for Fiscal Year 2022-2023. Resolution No. 11394.
eComment: Dear City of Orange, I am sorry I am not able to be present with you this evening. I am disappointed we have not had a community meeting for several years now to discuss our landscape management district and our assessment is stuck at the very end of an already long city council meeting. I am in support of the assessment however, for that increase I would like to see the switch to organic landscape management. I have written several times to inform you own the dangers of synthetic herbicides such as RoundUp/ RangerPro and Speedzone. In fact, Bayer has decided to not allow Glyphosate (active ingredient in RoundUp) to be sold for residential use as of 2023. They made this decision because of the thousands of lawsuits in the pipeline and others that have awarded millions of dollars to plaintiffs over Roundup causing Cancer. You cannot even google Roundup without seeing a page full of adds from Lawyers asking you if RoundUp caused your cancer. I cannot believe the city continues to stand on an island and spray this in our neighborhoods where our children play and live. We are truly in the minority at this point, throughout California, the US and the world Glyphosate is banned. RoundUp prices have surged as much as 300% in the past year. Does it even make financial sense to use it at this point, even if you do not care about the potential liability and health impacts? Our park is completely non-toxic and is amazing! We are so happy to have our children play freely without having to worry about their developing neurologic system being impacted by the synthetic herbicides being sprayed for purely cosmetic reasons. Why not make our entire neighborhood Organic or non-toxic. Organics are proven to save water, which is such a critical resource especially in this time of extreme drought. Why not use non-toxic alternatives? Do you want your children playing on a field sprayed with speedzone and roundUp? It is time to move in a more healthy direction. Thank you, Kimberly DeLehman
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Jennifer Connally
From: [email protected]
Sent: uesday, June 14, 2022 5:23 PM
To: amela Coleman; Jennifer Connall
Subiect: New eComment for City Council
New eComment for City Council
Mariam Tukhi submitted a new eComment.

Pesticides are toxic chemicals, poisons created to kill. They are dangerous for all living things, including adults and pregnant women, and are particularly dangerous to a child's developing organ systems. • Children are especially vulnerable to pesticides. According to the National Cancer Institute, the probability of an effect such as cancer, which requires a period of time to develop after exposure, is enhanced if exposure occurs early in life. • According to a Harvard Meta-Analysis, children are at particular risk from exposure to pesticides because they take in more pesticides relative to their body weight, are more physically active in their environment, and have developing organ systems that are less able to detoxify chemicals. • Children interact with their environment more than adults with more hand to mouth behavior. This behavior puts them at a much greater risk of elevated levels of exposure to the harmful pesticides that you are allowing in our parks. Scientific literature shows that pesticide exposure can adversely affect neurological, respiratory, immune, and endocrine systems in humans, even at low levels.

Children are especially sensitive to pesticide exposure as they take in more pesticides relative to their body weight. Pets interact with the environment in similar ways also putting them at risk.

There are also studies that link canine cancers to lawn chemicals. • Young children living in Orange are testing with toxic levels of these carcinogenic chemicals in their systems. I have noticed that other cities like Tustin, Irvine, Costa Mesa, and more are going non-toxic. I want my children to be able to play freely in our parks too. Why is the City of Orange so hesitant to stop spraying these chemicals where vulnerable children and pets play? I ask that you make the health of our children your priority over weed control and switch to organic landscaping methods in ALL of our parks and open spaces. Please contact me on any of the details below if you have any questions. Kind regards Mariam Tukhi 8230 E Woodwind Ave Orange, CA 92869 [email protected]
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2 Item 10.4
FY 2022-2023 CDBG
and HOME
Investment
Partnerships
Programs Annual
Action Plan
Jennifer Connally
From: [email protected]
Sent: Tuesday, June 14, 2022 3:10 PM
To: Pamela Coleman; Jennifer Connally
Subject: New eComment for City Council
New eComment for City Council
Cathy Seelig submitted a new eComment.

Meeting: City Council
Item: 10.4. Public Hearing to consider the Fiscal Year 2022-2023 Community Development and Block Grant and HOME Investment Partnerships Programs Annual Action Plan. eComment: Good evening Honorable Mayor Murphy and council members! I want to thank you for your consideration of awarding Friendly Center CDBG funding for our Community Food Orange program. This provides a consistent food resource for low-income families, individuals, and seniors in our community. Friendly Center values our long standing relationship with city and greatly appreciates your support. Sincerely, Cathy Seelig, President/CEO View and Analyze eComments
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Orange City CouncilJune 14, 2022

Orange City Council
June 14, 2022