Agenda packet — Santa Cruz City Council, April 12, 2022 (part 5 of 5)

Thank you for your consideration,
Mark Seasholes
921 Pelton Ave

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From: Sandi Dutra <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 10:25 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the RV Ordinance - Protect our families, environment and public health Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

I live on Delaware Ave and there is much need for this ordinance to be enforced. I don't feel safe walking down Delaware. This ordinance should be enforced. It should assist the authorities in removing unauthorized vehicles.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

Thank you for hearing me and my neighbors. The City should enforce common-sense rules for RVs that will do the following:
* Better protect the oceans and environment
* Increase neighborhood safety for children
* Reduce public health risks caused by poor sanitation and needles * Create a better situation for local businesses, their customers and employees Thank you for serving as Councilmembers.

Sandi Dutra

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From: Matt Freeman <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 10:25 AM
To: City Council; Donna Meyers; Renee Golder; Shebreh Kalantari-Johnson; Sonja Brunner; Martine Watkins
Subject: Item 31: Support for OVO as Outlined In Agenda 4/12 Report City Council Members,
As a resident and taxpayer in the Lower Westside that lives one block away from Deleware Avenue, I am constantly reminded by the consequences of unsanctioned large vehicle camping on our streets. I have literally witnessed crimes and serious community neglect. I supported the original OVO passed in November 2021 and I personally thank Renee for initiating the current review. I do appreciate the work city has done to establish a safe spaces parking program and appreciate the inclusion of county sites in the identified parking places on city and county property. This was a great step in finding a middle ground on such a divided topic within our City. Please help us continue to keep our streets clean and safe. I support the original OVO provisions as outlined in the current city staff agenda report dated 4/12/22.

Matt Freeman
Lower Westside resident

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From: julie barbin <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 10:26 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the RV Ordinance - Protect our families, environment and public health Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

Thank you for hearing me and my neighbors. The City should enforce common‐sense rules for RVs that will do the following:
* Better protect the oceans and environment
* Increase neighborhood safety for children
* Reduce public health risks caused by poor sanitation and needles * Create a better situation for local businesses, their customers and employees Thank you for serving as Councilmembers.

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From: catherine Kostelec <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 10:26 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the RV Ordinance - Protect our families, environment and public health Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work. With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance. Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1. Thank you for hearing me and my neighbors. The City should enforce common-sense rules for RVs that will do the following: * Better protect the oceans and environment * Increase neighborhood safety for children * Reduce public health risks caused by poor sanitation and needles * Create a better situation for local businesses, their customers and employees Thank you for serving as Councilmembers.

Catherine Kostelec
123 Alhambra Ave
Santa Cruz

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From: Shareen <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 10:26 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

Thank you for hearing me and my neighbors. The City should enforce common‐sense rules for RVs that will do the following:
*Reduce risk of sparking a wildfire near a dry wild land (WUI) area in the city given the extreme drought we are currently experiencing in Santa Cruz
* Better protect the oceans and environment
* Increase neighborhood safety for children
* Reduce public health risks caused by poor sanitation and needles * Create a better situation for local businesses, their customers and employees *
Thank you for serving as Councilmembers.

Sincerely,
Shareen Bell
Highland Firewise
Sent from my iPhone

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From: Stephen Karon <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 10:29 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

Sent from my iPhone

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From: Karen McCormick <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 10:28 AM
To: City Council; Donna Meyers; Renee Golder; Shebreh Kalantari-Johnson; Sonja Brunner; Martine Watkins
Subject: Item 31: Support for OVO as Outlined In Agenda 4/12 Report Dear City Council,
As full-time, tax-paying residents on the Lower Westside, we have been significantly impacted by the consequences of unsanctioned large vehicles camping on our streets. We supported the original OVO passed in November 2021. Thank you Renee for initiating the current review. We appreciate the work city has done to establish a safe spaces parking program and appreciate the inclusion of county sites in the identified parking places on city and county property. I support the original OVO provisions as outlined in the current city staff agenda report dated 4/12/22.

Warm regards,
Karen & Jonathan McCormick
210 Chico Ave, Santa Cruz, CA

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From: Peter Scontriano <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 10:31 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the RV Ordinance - Protect our families, environment and public health Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work. With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance. Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1. Thank you for hearing me and my neighbors. The City should enforce common-sense rules for RVs that will do the following: * Better protect the oceans and environment * Increase neighborhood safety for children * Reduce public health risks caused by poor sanitation and needles * Create a better situation for local businesses, their customers and employees Thank you for serving as Councilmembers.

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From: jan cavecche <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 10:34 AM
To: City Council
Cc: janette cavecche
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

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From: Shawn McMurdo <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 10:34 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the RV Ordinance - Protect our families, environment and public health Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

The City should enforce common-sense rules for RVs that will do the following:
* Better protect the oceans and environment
* Increase neighborhood safety for children
* Reduce public health risks caused by poor sanitation and needles * Create a better situation for local businesses, their customers and employees Thanks.

Shawn

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From: Micah Breeden <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 10:34 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
As an operator of a small local business that has been readily dealing with issues with oversized vehicles in our neighborhood we strongly support the Oversized Vehicle Ordinance! Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

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From: JDC <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 10:36 AM
To: City Council
Subject: I strongly support original Oversized Vehicle Ordinance Dear Mayor Brunner and City Council Members,
Please accept the staff coastal zoning permit recommendations for the Oversized Vehicle Ordinance. I appreciate all the time this has taken council members and city staff to bring this necessary program support and Ordinance forward. I support all the suggestions of safe spaces parking program and services to help people live a better life.

I often bike on Delaware to the Long Marine Lab. What I see is what motivates me to urge the Council to accept the recommendations!
Sincerely,
Joseph Collins
Manor Ave W

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From: The Grahams <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 10:39 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
My family has been in Santa Cruz for more than 20 years now, we call it home and my wife and I are raising our family here. The drug culture and homelessness that flourish in Santa Cruz has only increased in the time we have been here, please implement common sense rules for RV’s. It’s not too much to ask! Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

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From: Claire Castagna <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 10:40 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

Sincerely,
Claire Castagna
Robert Hatcher

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From: Lincoln Taiz <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 10:40 AM
To: City Council; Donna Meyers; Renee Golder; Shebreh Kalantari-Johnson; Sonja Brunner; Martine Watkins
Subject: Item 31: Support for OVO as Outlined In Agenda 4/12 Report Dear City Council, The Lower Westside has been significantly impacted by the consequences of unsanctioned large vehicle camping on our streets. We supported the original OVO passed in November 2021. Thank you Renee for initiating the current review. We appreciate the work city has done to establish a safe spaces parking program and appreciate the inclusion of county sites in the identified parking places on city and county property. I support the original OVO provisions as outlined in the current city staff agenda report dated 4/12/22.

Sincerely,
Lincoln Taiz

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From: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 10:41 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance
Honorable Mayor and Council Members,
Thank you to the 5 Council Members who voted to pass the oversized vehicle ordinance.

The Planning Commission continues with its own efforts ignoring the the community's support for this ordinance. The 9/21 introduction and first reading received nearly 1,000 emails in support.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

Your neighbors and constituents appreciate your recognition of our voice. The City should enforce common-sense rules for oversized vehicles/RVs that will:
-- Protect the oceans and environment
-- Increase neighborhood safety for children
-- Reduce public health risks caused by poor sanitation and needles -- Respect for local businesses, their customers and employees Thank you for serving as Council Members.

Pat O'Brien

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From: Jennifer Holz <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 10:41 AM
To: City Council; Donna Meyers; Martine Watkins; Renee Golder; Shebreh KalantariJohnson; Sonja Brunner Subject: Item 31: Support for OVO as Outlined In Agenda 4/12 Report Dear City Council,
The Lower Westside has been significantly impacted by the consequences of unsanctioned large vehicle camping on our streets. We supported the original OVO passed in November 2021. Thank you Renee for initiating the current review. We appreciate the work the city has done to establish a safe spaces parking program and appreciate the inclusion of county sites in the identified parking places on city and county property. I support the original OVO provisions as outlined in the current city staff agenda report dated 4/12/22.

Warmly,
Jen Holz

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From: Brian Garcia <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 10:42 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the RV Ordinance - Protect our families, environment and public health Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work. With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance. Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1. Thank you for hearing me and my neighbors. The City should enforce commonsense rules for RVs that will do the following: * Better protect the oceans and environment * Increase neighborhood safety for children * Reduce public health risks caused by poor sanitation and needles * Create a better situation for local businesses, their customers and employees Thank you for serving as Councilmembers.

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From: Michael Croghan <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 10:42 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Do not let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

Sent from Yahoo Mail on Android

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From: Paul/Sue Stephens <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 10:43 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the RV Ordinance - Protect our families, environment and public health Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work. With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance. Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1. Thank you for hearing me and my neighbors. The City should enforce commonsense rules for RVs that will do the following: * Better protect the oceans and environment * Increase neighborhood safety for children * Reduce public health risks caused by poor sanitation and needles * Create a better situation for local businesses, their customers and employees Thank you for serving as Councilmembers.

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From: Polly Malan <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 10:48 AM
To: City Council; Donna Meyers; Renee Golder; Shebreh Kalantari-Johnson; Sonja Brunner; Martine Watkins
Subject: Item 31: Support for OVO as Outlined In Agenda 4/12 Report Dear City Council, The Lower Westside has been significantly impacted by the consequences of unsanctioned large vehicle camping on our streets. We supported the original OVO passed in November 2021. Thank you Renee for initiating the current review. We appreciate the work city has done to establish a safe spaces parking program and appreciate the inclusion of county sites in the identified parking places on city and county property. I support the original OVO provisions as outlined in the current city staff agenda report dated 4/12/22.

Sent from my iPad

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From: Ann Simonton <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 10:52 AM
To: City Council
Subject: VOTE NO on Oversized Vehicle Ordinance
Dear Mayor Brunner and SC City Council Members:

I implore you to vote NO on the OVO as it is wasteful, harmful and ineffective to criminalize people who live in vehicles. As the homeless population ages— they often retire to the streets. Allowing them a few of their belongings by living in a vehicle is the very least you can do to help those who are not as rich and privileged as you are. The punitive OVO impounds their small safety hatch and most often their few treasures are tossed.

Services and many more locations should be set up BEFORE this OVO is implemented.

It appears that 5 members of the council never consider voting independently and stand up for the human rights of the poor. Why is that? Certainly you are each individuals with a mind and heart of your own. It seems writing or calling into council meetings is fruitless, as information falls on deaf ears ‐‐ as the majority appear to have already decided. That is negligent behavior as representatives of all the citizens of this City. It seems clear the current majority has Carmel in mind for Santa Cruz 2025.

The council’s actions seem to hope the poor die‐‐or if they can manage it, that they get OUT of our City.

Consider this is your grandmother living in a car rather than dubbing it a “nuisance". Did you see the film Nomad? Many elderly can't live on SSI and are forced to live in vehicles. I am ashamed of the mean‐spirited actions of this current council and hope one of you can find more compassionate solutions during this extreme time of climate change, poverty, scarcity. Thank you for considering testing out increased services and locations for OVOs, rather than implementing this cruel and punitive ordinance along with other items on the Tuesday agenda.

And why are you not meeting in public as the Board of Supervisors has been doing since LAST AUGUST? Thank you for considering more humane, measured, and hopeful solutions for Santa Cruz.

VOTE NO on this AND ITEM 30 (which I just heard of) Item 30 is blatantly unconstitutional and you will end up being sued. Citizens of the US have the right to peaceably assemble‐‐without a permit‐ read the constitution! Thank you, Ann Simonton (46 year resident of the City)

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From: HENRY CASSADY <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 10:53 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

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From: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 10:55 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Just one more reminder. We support compassionate rehabilitation of homeless people, but our town is falling into ruins.

The crime rate is ridiculous. Kids aren't safe. Drugs are everywhere. How can Santa Cruz police regain control in such chaotic circumstances? Please corral the campers into controlled areas, away from neighborhoods and schools. Perhaps repurposing our civic office parking lots would make the most sense? Then you could see, firsthand, if/when the crisis is improving. And please don't be afraid to tell people from other cities and states, if you don't live here, you need to sleep in an official campground like everyone else.

Best Wishes,
Elise Ferrell

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From: Douglas Fritz <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 10:57 AM
To: City Council; Donna Meyers; Renee Golder; Shebreh Kalantari-Johnson; Sonja Brunner; Martine Watkins
Subject: Item 31: Support for OVO as Outlined In Agenda 4/12 Report Dear City Council,
The Lower Westside has been significantly impacted by the consequences of unsanctioned large vehicle camping on our streets. We supported the original OVO passed in November 2021. Thank you Renee for initiating the current review. We appreciate the work city has done to establish a safe spaces parking program and appreciate the inclusion of county sites in the identified parking places on city and county property. I support the original OVO provisions as outlined in the current city staff agenda report dated 4/12/22.

Doug Fritz
F2 Strategy
415-844-0641
[email protected]

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From: C G <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 10:57 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

Sent from my iPhone

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From: Don Simpson <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 10:57 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

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From: James Gill <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 10:58 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the RV Ordinance - Consider the environment please Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work. The environmental consequences of all the rubbish left by folks living in vans should not be ignored. Just walk along Delaware and Natural Bridges Dr. and we guarantee you’ll see rubbish, including plastic waste, which has been left along the roads next to vans. Sometimes there is human waste and toilet paper under nearby bushes.

There are two vans, one blue, one tan, almost perpetually parked in the same spots along W. Cliff Dr. not far from Swift St. There are sometimes several people in line purchasing something from the tan van folks.

We’ve mentioned this to the police as a likely drug operation and were told that the police are aware of the situation. We then asked why nothing is done about it; the response was: “Elect a new sheriff.” Perhaps it’s no wonder that so many people from other counties and states come here to live in vans, tents, etc.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

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From: mark szychowski <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 10:59 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers, Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work. With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance. Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1. Thank you for hearing me and my neighbors. The City should enforce common-sense rules for RVs that will do the following: * Better protect the oceans and environment * Increase neighborhood safety for children * Reduce public health risks caused by poor sanitation and needles * Create a better situation for local businesses, their customers and employees Thank you for serving as Councilmembers.

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From: Julie Kimball <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 11:00 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers, Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work. With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance. Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1. Thank you for hearing me and my neighbors.

The City should enforce common-sense rules for RVs that will do the following: * Better protect the oceans and environment * Increase neighborhood safety for children * Reduce public health risks caused by poor sanitation and needles * Create a better situation for local businesses, their customers and employees Thank you for serving as Councilmembers.

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From: ABS2 SC <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 11:00 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
As a Westside business owner I plead to the council to please continue to enforce the oversized vehicles...our business is continually surrounded by RV's with occupants that have occasional "vistors" to their doors that soon leave with whatever they came to acquire. These oversized vehicles leave trash and occasionally dump their tanks into our storm drains and take up valuable parking spaces for our customers. They are a nuisance in our neighborhood. All the businesses on our street struggle with the lack of parking available each day because there are so many overnight campers on McPherson st...

Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

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From: Rebeca Finn <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 11:01 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

Rebeca Finn

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From: JAMES MCGOWAN <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 11:04 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Dear Mayor and Council members,
Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

The City should enforce common‐sense rules for RVs that will do the following:
* Better protect the oceans and environment
* Increase neighborhood safety for children
* Reduce public health risks caused by poor sanitation and needles * Create a better situation for local businesses, their customers and employees Sincerely,
James C McGowan
423 Laurent St
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
831‐426‐4493

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From: Molly Abramson <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 11:05 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

Molly Abramson

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From: scbask49 <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 11:05 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

David Green Baskin
Sent from IPhone

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From: anita lucketti <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 11:05 AM
To: City Council; Donna Meyers; Renee Golder; Shebreh Kalantari-Johnson; Sonja Brunner; Martine Watkins
Subject: Item 31: Support for OVO as Outlined In Agenda 4/12 Report Moo Dear City Council, The Lower Westside has been significantly impacted by the consequences of unsanctioned large vehicle camping on our streets. We supported the original OVO passed in November 2021.

Thank you Renee for initiating the current review. We appreciate the work city has done to establish a safe spaces parking program and appreciate the inclusion of county sites in the identified parking places on city and county property. I support the original OVO provisions as outlined in the current city staff agenda report dated 4/12/22.

Sent from my iPhone

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From: Kathy Pyle <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 11:10 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers, Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work. With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance. Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1. Thank you for hearing me and my neighbors.

The City should enforce common-sense rules for RVs that will do the following: * Better protect the oceans and environment * Increase neighborhood safety for children * Reduce public health risks caused by poor sanitation and needles * Create a better situation for local businesses, their customers and employees Thank you for serving as Councilmembers.

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1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Kristin Reichmuth <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 11:11 AM
To: City Council
Cc: 'Kristin Reichmuth'
Subject: I support original Oversized Vehicle Ordinance Dear Mayor Brunner and City Council Members,
This is a critical issue for the permanent and transient residents alike. The Oversized Vehicle Ordinance will provide all players, especially and including those who will enforce it and those who will provide service under and related to it, a clear set of rules & procedures how best to move forward in any given 'oversized vehicle' situation within City limits.

On a personal note, I am unable to walk to neighborhood grocery stores, coffee shops, or the gym without having to walk around the transient RV’s. I feel unsafe. Also, we pay over $20,000 a year in property taxes to live in this beautiful city and there are vans parked on West Cliff practically full time enjoying all of the amenities for free.

With the preceding in mind, please accept the staff coastal zoning permit recommendations for the Oversized Vehicle Ordinance. I appreciate all the time this has taken council members and city staff to bring this necessary program support and Ordinance forward. I support all the suggestions of safe spaces parking program and services to help people live a better life.

Sincerely,
Kristin Reichmuth
Westside resident, homeowner and City taxpayer since 1992

31.1285
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: kay thompson <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 11:14 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

31.1286
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Marle Majewska <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 11:15 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

Sent from my iPhone

31.1287
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: May Roen <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 11:15 AM
To: City Council; Donna Meyers; Renee Golder; Shebreh Kalantari-Johnson; Sonja Brunner; Martine Watkins
Cc: Oystein Saebo
Subject: Item 31: Support for OVO as Outlined In Agenda 4/12 Report Dear City Council,
First thank you so much for your service!
I just wanted to voice my and my family's opinion as a resident living at the Lower Westside. The Lower Westside has been significantly impacted by the consequences of unsanctioned large vehicle camping on our streets.

We supported the original OVO passed in November 2021, as outlined in the current city staff agenda report dated 4/12/22. Thank you Renee for initiating the current review.

We appreciate the work the city has done to establish a safe spaces parking program and appreciate the inclusion of county sites in the identified parking places on city and county property.

Best
May Roen and Oystein Saebo

31.1288
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Surfer fiftysix <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 11:16 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
One thing as a retired person trying to enjoy life in our little Rv, please don't make it a crime to come home late at night tired and wanting to park our Rv in front of my home while we unload it or pack it up for that matter in between trips. we pay our taxes and should be able to park in front of my home for a period of time without being harassed. Thank you for your courtesy and cooperation.

Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers, Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work. With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance. Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

Thank you for hearing me and my neighbors. The City should enforce common-sense rules for RVs that will do the following: * Better protect the oceans and environment * Increase neighborhood safety for children * Reduce public health risks caused by poor sanitation and needles * Create a better situation for local businesses, their customers and employees Thank you for serving as Councilmembers.

31.1289
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Teresa Ghilarducci <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 11:23 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
I am an older resident in the DeAnza trailer park and the only way to walk to a grocery store and to other commercial places is to walk down Delaware Avenue. Many cars park there to enjoy Natural Bridges park; but several RVs and their bins of barbeques, cars, old furniture have "moved in." There is toilet paper in the bushes and grocery garbage. The folks who live in these conditions seem very stressed. I have heard screaming, pounding, and crying from the cars and inside the RVs.

During the day on the walks, it is hard to give these folks and their huge RVs wide berth. There are no good sidewalks and Delaware is unsafe because there are no speedbumps.

I appreciate the members of the Council who passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Yet, I am concerned about the developments at the Planning Commission seeking to undermine the Council's progress. The RV ordinance will make life more organized for the RV dwellers and to make that part of Delaware you all are trying to develop with the Panetta Lane and protecting Natural Bridges. I think the rules for RVs make sense: they will protect the park, boost public health risks by eliminating human waste on the street and bushes, and help develop Delaware for local businesses.

I am thinking that you have received evidence for broad support for this ordinance, I understand that the emails urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

Thank you for hearing from me and my neighbors.

Most of all I am so impressed that you all are so generous and energetic to serve as mayor and Councilmembers, it really helps our democracy and community for high quality, public minded people to serve.

Sincerely,
Teresa Ghilarducci

31.1290
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Leslie Crowell <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 11:26 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the RV Ordinance - Protect our families, environment and public health Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work. With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance. Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1. Thank you for hearing me and my neighbors. The City should enforce common-sense rules for RVs that will do the following: * Better protect the oceans and environment * Increase neighborhood safety for children * Reduce public health risks caused by poor sanitation and needles * Create a better situation for local businesses, their customers and employees Thank you for serving as Councilmembers.

31.1291
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Jeanine Eberhardt <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 11:27 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

Jeanine Eberhardt
Sent from my iPhone

31.1292
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Margaret Shull <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 11:27 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

Sent from my iPhone

31.1293
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Donna Karst <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 11:31 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

31.1294
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Ernest Castillo <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 11:33 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the RV Ordinance - Protect our families, environment and public health Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

31.1295
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Monica Bowman <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 11:32 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers, Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work. With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance. Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

Thank you for hearing me and my neighbors. The City should enforce common-sense rules for RVs that will do the following: * Better protect the oceans and environment * Increase neighborhood safety for children * Reduce public health risks caused by poor sanitation and needles * Create a better situation for local businesses, their customers and employees Thank you for serving as Councilmembers.

31.1296
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: George Hearn <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 11:32 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers, Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work. With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance. Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1. Thank you for hearing me and my neighbors.

The City should enforce common-sense rules for RVs that will do the following: * Better protect the oceans and environment * Increase neighborhood safety for children * Reduce public health risks caused by poor sanitation and needles * Create a better situation for local businesses, their customers and employees Thank you for serving as Councilmembers.

31.1297
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Anne Scholz <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 11:37 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Please address this issue. Every day I have to deal with the trash, human waste, and behavior in front of my office on Delaware Ave.

Sincerely,
Anne Scholz
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

31.1298
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Peter X <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 11:39 AM
To: City Council; Donna Meyers; Renee Golder; Shebreh Kalantari-Johnson; Sonja Brunner; Martine Watkins
Subject: Item 31: Support for OVO as Outlined In Agenda 4/12 Report Dear City Council,
Please pass the strictest RV parking measures possible to limit to the absolute minimum, the filth, lawlessness and reduction in our quality of life caused by Santa Cruz being the place where RV’s come en mass. If we remain so passive, all we do is create a problem too large for our city to manage … just like all the other social ills that plague our town. (obviously)
I am seriously fed up with paying huge sums of property tax (for what?) only to have an unreasonably large transient population use the area where I live (Westside) as a campground and dumping ground. Where the hell is the law and order we pay for with our taxes. I want a safe and clean town. Is that too much to ask? If people have an RV. They can park it in a legal RV campground like everywhere else in the country.

Take your personal ideologies and keep them to yourselves. You were hired to serve the residents of this town and keeping Santa Cruz safe and clean should be priority #1.

Peter Zwinakis

31.1299
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: edward bailey <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 11:41 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Rv camping ordinance
I urge the council to pass the RV camping ordinance and any new laws that will STOP THE CRIME in Santa Cruz.

Enough already‐do something .

31.1300
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Rachel Kliger <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 11:45 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Do not change the oversize vehicle ordinance
Dear City Council,
Please retain the original ordinance for oversize vehicles. The proposed changes make the ordinance meaningless.

Rachel Kliger
546 Arroyo Seco
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
831‐426‐7059
[email protected]

31.1301
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: lea haratani <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 11:47 AM
To: City Council; Donna Meyers; Renee Golder; Shebreh Kalantari-Johnson; Sonja Brunner; Martine Watkins
Subject: Item 31: Support for OVO as Outlined In Agenda 4/12 Report Dear City Council, The Lower Westside has been significantly impacted by the consequences of unsanctioned large vehicle camping on our streets. We supported the original OVO passed in November 2021. Thank you Renee for initiating the current review. We appreciate the work city has done to establish a safe spaces parking program and appreciate the inclusion of county sites in the identified parking places on city and county property. I support the original OVO provisions as outlined in the current city staff agenda report dated 4/12/22.

Thank you,
Lea Haratani
700 spring st
Sent from my iPhone

31.1302
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Quinn McLaughlin <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 11:50 AM
To: City Council
Subject: PLEASE Enforce the Oversized Vehicle Ordinance! Dear Mayor and Councilmembers,
Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

31.1303
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Daniel Medeiros <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 11:56 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

31.1304
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: FJC <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 11:56 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers, Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work. With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance. Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1. Thank you for hearing me and my neighbors. The City should enforce common-sense rules for RVs that will do the following:
* Better protect the oceans and environment
* Increase neighborhood safety for children
* Reduce public health risks caused by poor sanitation and needles * Create a better situation for local businesses, their customers and employees Thank you for serving as Councilmembers.

31.1305
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Neal Langholz <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 11:57 AM
To: City Council
Subject: Vote to keep OVO as originally passed
Thank you Renee Golder for appealing the Planning Commission's inappropriate changes to the OVO.

Please decisively stick with this Council's original ordinance calling for a permit system.

Neal Langholz

31.1306
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Amy Huenergardt <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 12:01 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

31.1307
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Vanessa Frank <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 12:05 PM
To: City Council; Donna Meyers; Renee Golder; Shebreh Kalantari-Johnson; Sonja Brunner; Martine Watkins
Subject: Item 31: Support for OVO as Outlined In Agenda 4/12 Report Dear City Council,
The Lower Westside has been significantly impacted by the consequences of unsanctioned large vehicle camping on our streets. We supported the original OVO passed in November 2021.

We have reached a crisis point. Please act now in order to have civility, safety and reason. The current situation is untenable, not just for the law‐abiding residents, but for the RV occupiers as well. The trash, generators, human waste, etc. are impacting everyone’s quality of life, including the natural environment. I wish someone would take a stand and do the right thing...this has gone on far too long and it’s destructive on so many levels. Do we really want this situation spiraling out of control?! Thank you Renee for initiating the current review. We appreciate the work city has done to establish a safe spaces parking program and appreciate the inclusion of county sites in the identified parking places on city and county property. I support the original OVO provisions as outlined in the current city staff agenda report dated 4/12/22.

Sincerely,
Vanessa Frank and Alex Mendoza
409 Woodland Way
Sent from my iPhone

31.1308
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Becky McDermott <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 12:07 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers, Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work. With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance. Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1. Thank you for hearing me and my neighbors. The City should enforce common‐sense rules for RVs that will do the following: * Better protect the oceans and environment * Increase neighborhood safety for children * Reduce public health risks caused by poor sanitation and needles * Create a better situation for local businesses, their customers and employees Thank you for serving as Councilmembers. 
As a retired teacher who has lived in this community for 60 years I urge you to enforce rules on RV parking.

We deserve to be able to walk from Natural Bridges to Seymour Center with out having to go into the street because RV’s are using the sidewalk for their storage. Many times we have heard yelling coming from an RV.

Many of my friends are nervous to walk in this area. Of course there’s also the issue of sewage and garbage.

Please keep our streets and neighborhoods safe and clean.

Thank you,
Becky McDermott
Sent from my iPad

31.1309
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Keith Andrews <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 12:07 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the RV Ordinance - Protect our families, environment and public health Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work. With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance. Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1. Thank you for hearing me and my neighbors. The City should enforce common-sense rules for RVs that will do the following: * Better protect the oceans and environment * Increase neighborhood safety for children * Reduce public health risks caused by poor sanitation and needles * Create a better situation for local businesses, their customers and employees Thank you for serving as Councilmembers.

31.1310
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Gene Manako <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 12:09 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

Sincerely,
Gene Manako

31.1311
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Mark Schwenne <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 12:11 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

Mark Schwenne

31.1312
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Gordon Lion <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 12:12 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Dear Council,
Thank you to the Council members that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance.

The City should enforce common‐sense rules for RVs.
* Protect the oceans and environment
* Increase neighborhood safety
* Reduce public health risks caused by poor sanitation and needles Thank you
Gordon Lion
Grant Park Neighbohood

31.1313
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Franklin Harris <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 12:13 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers, Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work. With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance. Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1. Thank you for hearing me and my neighbors. The City should enforce common-sense rules for RVs that will do the following: * Better protect the oceans and environment * Increase neighborhood safety for children * Reduce public health risks caused by poor sanitation and needles * Create a better situation for local businesses, their customers and employees Thank you for serving as Councilmembers.

31.1314
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Carol Hanna <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 12:13 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Please support the original Oversized Vehicle Ordinance Dear City Council Members,
I have never contacted city council members before about issues in Santa Cruz, but I feel compelled today to speak out about the Oversized Vehicle Ordinance. It has come to my understanding that the Ordinance has been changed by a group of some members of he Planning Commission without public knowledge or vote.

Isn’t this illegal?
If not, illegal, isn’t it irresponsible to propose such changes without public voice? Unconscionable and shameful!!!!
The change in the Ordinance that this group proposes will only enable people that are living in their vehicles to remain the same, with no improvement to their lifestyle, no change to their conditions, and no efforts on their part to change. In addition to the numerous oversized vehicles already present in Santa Cruz, this “ changed” ordinance would bring more and more Oversized Vehicles to our city. Word gets out how easy it is to be “homeless” here. The idea of free gas, tools, mechanical help, etc is an invitation to come here and park your Oversized Vehicle in our neighborhoods.

Why not? All is free!!!

My brother In law lived in his car under an overpass for 2 weeks while he was waiting for Section 8 housing. All he ever wanted was a safe, designated spot to park his car and sleep safely for the night.

The original Oversized Vehicle Ordinance will provide a safe permitted place for people to park their vehicles.

The Oversized Vehicle Ordinance as originally written and accepted by the people of Santa Cruz, is fair to everyone, the city, the people living in their OV, the neighbors, Law Enforcement, and Homeless Advocates.

Please support the RV parking permits Ordinance as it was originally written and accepted.

Thank you for your time and for serving our city.

Regards,
Carol Hanna

31.1315
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: mmellon <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 12:13 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the RV Ordinance - Protect our families, environment and public health Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

The current situation is simply absurd.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

Sent from my Galaxy

31.1316
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Cynthia Sammet <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 12:17 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers, Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work. With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance. Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1. Thank you for hearing me and my neighbors.

The City should enforce common-sense rules for RVs that will do the following: * Better protect the oceans and environment * Increase neighborhood safety for children * Reduce public health risks caused by poor sanitation and needles * Create a better situation for local businesses, their customers and employees Thank you for serving as Councilmembers.

31.1317
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Dan Sullivan <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 12:23 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
This may be a form letter, but it expresses our thoughts perfectly.

Dan and Jean Sullivan
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

31.1318
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Andrea Rosenfeld <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 12:26 PM
To: City Council; Donna Meyers; Renee Golder; Shebreh Kalantari-Johnson; Sonja Brunner; Martine Watkins
Subject: Item 31: Support for OVO as Outlined In Agenda 4/12 Report Dear City Council,
The Lower Westside has been significantly impacted by the consequences of unsanctioned large vehicle camping on our streets. We supported the original OVO passed in November 2021. Thank you Councilmember Golder for initiating the current review.

We appreciate the work city has done to establish a safe spaces parking program and appreciate the inclusion of county sites in the identified parking places on city and county property. I support the original OVO provisions as outlined in the current city staff agenda report dated 4/12/22. In particular, I would like the city to make clear by this ordinance and signage that people on vacation need to park in commercial RV parks, and cannot use our city streets as unsanctioned RV campgrounds.

Regards,
Andrea Rosenfeld
[email protected]
415.370.2154

31.1319
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Christine Labagh <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 12:31 PM
To: City Council; Donna Meyers; Renee Golder; Shebreh Kalantari-Johnson; Sonja Brunner; Martine Watkins
Subject: Item 31: Support for OVO as Outlined In Agenda 4/12 Report Dear City Council,
The Lower Westside has been significantly impacted by the consequences of unsanctioned large vehicle camping on our streets. We supported the original OVO passed in November 2021.

Please pass an Oversized Vehicle Ordinance to help keep our community clean and safe. My only concern is change #4: “confront no barriers to participation including no Geist ration, or eligibility requirements to participate and lastly if a vehicle cannot relocate do to mechanical issue, lack of fuel or physical, mental, or emotional difficulty of the operator, the ordinance will not be enforced and the ‘right to sleep at current location will be observed’”. This proposed change concerns me greatly. What happens if many or more vehicle operators claim this option. Then we are essentially still in the same position. Please include a change or caveat, so that we can all have a safe community.

Thank you,
Christine Mantua
Sent from my iPad

31.1320
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: John McCormick <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 12:42 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

31.1321
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Ritch Haselden <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 12:43 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

Thank you,
Ritch Haselden

31.1322
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Lu Haussler <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 12:44 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the RV Ordinance - Protect our families, environment and public health Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

31.1323
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Kathleen Ferraro <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 12:44 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the RV Ordinance - Protect our families, environment and public health Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

Sincerely,
Kathy Ferraro
137 Parnell Street
Santa Cruz, CA. 95062

31.1324
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Lira Filippini <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 12:44 PM
To: Sonja Brunner; Justin Cummings; Shebreh Kalantari-Johnson; City Council; Donna Meyers; Martine Watkins; Renee Golder; Sandy Brown
Subject: OVO; Agenda Item 31; 4/12/22
Dear Mayor Brunner and Council Elect,
The Conditions of Approval (COAs) adapted by the Planning Commission are a reasonable compromise that would move the OVO toward the success of its stated goals. Without them, the OVO would serve more as a criminalization ordinance and less of a mitigation and support ordinance.

The services and amenities described in the safe parking program are exactly the type of solution we need to aid the community members relying on recreational vehicles as their only shelter; however, creating a city-specific avenue of criminalization of the people who choose not to utilize these amenities as their only option in the city, is not an appropriate or humane solution and only further exacerbates social inequity.

The concerns of environmental damage and safety expressed by many citizens are understandable, as are the areas discussed in the resolution language of Agenda 31.

Considering that, I think a little exploration into what is allowing these issues to occur is warranted. Many of the community's concerns leading to the ordinance are valid and mostly consist of:
sewage dumping/leaking onto streets, trash accumulation, violent crime, theft, unsanctioned fires, and damage to state or city park vegetation.

It is important to point out that ALL of these are already illegal and no new laws or ordinance are needed. The city can absolutely start adequately enforcing the laws associated with each of these without creating a new ordinance that in effect criminalizes all people living in an oversized vehicle who don't wish to be herded into a parking lot together each evening.
 We already have laws against sewage leaking of recreational vehicles, which could be enforced (California Health and Safety Code 18871.4)
 We already have litter laws, which could be enforced (California Penal Code 374).  We already have laws controlling fire safety, which could be enforced (County of Santa Cruz Municipal Code Chapter 7.92)
 We do not need a new ordinance to enforce crimes of theft or violence. There are innumerable national, state, and local laws already establishing these as punishable crimes.  There are many laws/regulations against damaging or removing vegetation from public lands/parks. The easiest to find are state park regulations. If our city parks do not have such regulations, they should be adopted to match those of the state's.

The secondary batch of community concerns or frustrations can also be mitigated by EXISTING laws. Some community members have communicated concern that certain streets are piling up with permanent parking of these oversized vehicles.

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2  We already have state and local laws giving the right to tow vehicles left unmoved (or moved less than 1,000 feet) for 72 hours or more. These could be more adequately noticed and enforced (California Vehicle Code, Division 11 [22650 - 22711]; specifically 22669)  We already have state and local laws giving the right to remove dismantled vehicles or vehicle parts on public property, which could be more adequately enforced (County of Santa Cruz Code 9.57)  We already have state laws for the following that could also be enforced with tickets or towing:
o Vehicle registration expired over six months (22651(o) o No license plates or registration (22651(j)
o More than 5 unpaid parking citations (22651(i)(1)
In effect, the OVO would only prohibit the people relying on their oversized vehicles as shelter from parking on these public streets at night; it allows for them to park there during the day. Which of the community concerns are specifically mitigated by this? And which of those cannot be mitigated by existing laws described herein? Are the streets most used by the people residing in their oversized vehicles highly sought-after for nighttime parking by normal sized vehicles? And wouldn't this in effect be limiting coastal access to a select group in our population for a specific time frame each day? It's also important to note that without the COAs, the oversized vehicles would not be allowed to park in the proposed safe parking program lots during the day, only at night. Requiring oversized vehicles to move in and out of the safe parking program's theoretical lot every single evening and morning poses a clear environmental carbon debt. It also necessitates costly expenditure on gas for each vehicle's operator in the program. This fundamentally makes it harder for folks to survive in their vehicles, clearly intending for a burden that would encourage them to leave the city, or have their vehicle towed, putting more houseless folks out onto the streets/parks of Santa Cruz without safe and controllable shelter.

It would be a more equitable solution to provide the safe parking program as an option, enforce existing laws, and create services like black water dumping voucher programs, trash receptacle/collection programs, etc.., without criminalizing those who are abiding by all of the current laws.

Additionally, the COAs put forward by the Planning Commission are common Best Practices for ordinances of this type in other areas in which these programs work. If OVO is to move forward, it should do so with these well researched COAs and the Best Practices contained therein.

Thank you for your thoughtful consideration,
Lira Filippini

31.1326
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: David Morgan <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 12:49 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Listen to Robert Norse Interviewing Lee Ann Sherwood Boasting of Taking Over Steamer Lane And Westside Neighborhoods
Attachments: Robert Norse interviewing Lee Ann Sherwood.m4a City Council Members:

Please move forward with passing the OVO and ignore all of the static from the rouge Planning Commission. But don’t believe me, listen to Robert Norse’s interview with LeeAnn Sherwood, a self-styled homeless activist living in a van with her husband Kevin Callahan who was a person of interest in a recent murder. They brag about taking over the limited Steamer Lane parking spots to the exclusion of others—very much against the spirit of the coastal commission—and moving into the Westside neighborhoods to evade enforcement on Delaware.

Have a listen:

David Morgan
Broadway Ave
Santa Cruz

31.1327
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Peggy Overbeck <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 12:53 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the RV Ordinance - Protect our families, environment and public health Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

Thank you for hearing me and my neighbors. The City should enforce common‐sense rules for RVs that will do the following:
* Better protect the oceans and environment
* Increase neighborhood safety for children and seniors * Reduce public health risks caused by poor sanitation and needles * Create a better situation for local businesses, their customers and employees Thank you for serving as Councilmembers.

Peggy Overbeck
Sent from my iPad

31.1328
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Kati King <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 12:58 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

31.1329
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Kaila Bongiovanni <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 1:01 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Support for Enforcing the RV Ordinance
Thank you to the 5 Council members that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

31.1330
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Martha Stewart <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 1:03 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the RV Ordinance - Protect our families, environment and public health I have been a resident of Santa Cruz for over 40 years and am a homeowner on the westside.

Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

Thank you for listening to me and my neighbors. The City should enforce common-sense rules for RVs that will do the following:
* Better protect the oceans and environment
* Increase neighborhood safety for children
* Reduce public health risks caused by poor sanitation and needles * Create a better situation for local businesses, their customers and employees Thank you for serving as Councilmembers.

Sincerely,
Martha Stewart

31.1331
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Darius M <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 1:07 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Please pass the OVO and let the “market” fix it City council members:

Please move forward with the OVO which is well past its gestation period. The renegade hijacking of this ordinance by the planning commission a month ago should be ignored on a number of levels which I will not be be labor here since you already have heard the arguments.

I recently attended the same discussion Mayor Bruner attended with Conor Dougherty and John Franzen where Mr. Dougherty, the author of the book “Golden Gates “, called Santa Cruz a “resort town.” Given the dynamics of housing prices not only locally but nationally, without the OVO, it’s only a matter of time before our town is invaded with more and more people living on our streets in their vehicles with the associated nefarious behaviors and sanitation issues. I have nothing against living in a properly equipped van or RV; in fact, sometimes I fantasize about such a carefree living experience that could provide. However, our city’s streets are not designed to accommodate these vehicles in a sanitary or safe manner. That is the domain of RV parks or perhaps appropriately outfitted safe parking areas. Free markets may identify this opportunity and provide the appropriate facilities for these folks wishing to live in an OV.

Darius Mohsenin
6th Ave
Santa Cruz

31.1332
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: M. Korby <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 1:09 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers, Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work. With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance. Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1. Thank you for hearing me and my neighbors. The City should enforce common-sense rules for RVs that will do the following: * Better protect the oceans and environment * Increase neighborhood safety for children * Reduce public health risks caused by poor sanitation and needles * Create a better situation for local businesses, their customers and employees Thank you for serving as Councilmembers.

31.1333
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Doug Picard <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 1:09 PM
To: City Council; Donna Meyers; Renee Golder; Shebreh Kalantari-Johnson; Sonja Brunner; Martine Watkins
Subject: Item 31: Support for OVO as Outlined In Agenda 4/12 Report Dear City Council,
The Lower Westside has been significantly impacted by the consequences of unsanctioned large vehicle camping on our streets. I supported the original OVO passed in November 2021. Thank you Renee for initiating the current review. We appreciate the work that has been done to establish a safe spaces parking program and appreciate the inclusion of county sites in the identified parking places on city and county property.

I support the original OVO provisions as outlined in the current city staff agenda report dated 4/12/22.

Thank you,
Doug Picard

31.1334
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Lynn - <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 1:09 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Planning commission broke transparency rules
Thank you to Renee Golder for appealing the Planning Commission's effort to overturn the OVO. It's completely inappropriate for the planning commission to violate the Brown Act by making major revisions to the OVO without public notice and participation. For those listening at home, know that a few members of the Planning Commission blatantly broke rules established for transparency in local governance. It's offensive for an advisory body to blatantly over-reach and attempt to invalidate two separate 5 to 2 Council votes.

At least 1,000 members of the public sent emails in support of this ordinance for the first and second reading. As I write this a few hundred more have emailed you urging you to implement the OVO as originally passed.

Two weeks ago I drove down Highway 1 to visit my mother in Morro Bay. I couldn't help noticing multiple RV Campground --> signs directing RVs to designated, sanitary campgrounds. 24 other California coastal cities have rules for RV parking and they have not faced legal challenges. These 24 other Coastal Cities parking rules were Coastal Commission approved.

RV parking rules are routine in Coastal cities. Be confident in the ordinance already on the books! Lynn Renshaw

31.1335
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Keith Andrews <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 1:10 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Item 31: Support for OVO as Outlined In Agenda 4/12 Report Dear City Council, The Lower Westside has been significantly impacted by the consequences of unsanctioned large vehicle camping on our streets. We supported the original OVO passed in November 2021. Thank you Renee for initiating the current review. We appreciate the work city has done to establish a safe spaces parking program and appreciate the inclusion of county sites in the identified parking places on city and county property. I support the original OVO provisions as outlined in the current city staff agenda report dated 4/12/22.

31.1336
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Brenda Martin <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 1:13 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
We all have a desire to feel safe in our local communities while we utilize and enjoy the beauty of our neighborhood and nearby recreational areas. We take pride in seeing these areas kept clean and safe for ourselves and visitors alike. Tourism is a vital contributor to a healthy economy in Santa Cruz but the blight of run down oversized vehicles lining our streets doesn’t translate into a message of security but rather that of uneasy watchfulness and concern which directly harms the overall impression of our beautiful city. Natural Bridges is a local treasure and should be protected at all cost. I live on Delaware Ave and have avoided parking near the Natural Bridges area in recent years as it became a haven for run down RV’s inhabited by people who showed no concern for the environment by littering and leaving human waste in the area. I was fearful of parking my car and walking into Natural Bridges from the Delaware side wondering if my car would become the next target for theft. I used to feel so safe in Santa Cruz and felt so proud of our city but that has changed drastically and I hope we can reclaim our wonderful heritage by moving forward in the right direction by upholding and enforcing the oversized vehicle ordinance. Thank you, Brenda Martin Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

Sent from my iPhone

31.1337
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: doug rosener <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 1:18 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

31.1338
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Jacob Elder <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 1:22 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

31.1339
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Janel Garvin <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 1:28 PM
To: City Council; Donna Meyers; Renee Golder; Shebreh Kalantari-Johnson; Sonja Brunner; Martine Watkins
Subject: Item 31: Support for OVO as Outlined In Agenda 4/12 Report Dear City Council, The Lower Westside has been significantly impacted by the consequences of unsanctioned large vehicle camping on our streets.

We supported the original OVO passed in November 2021. Thank you Renee for initiating the current review.

We appreciate the work city has done to establish a safe spaces parking program and appreciate the inclusion of county sites in the identified parking places on city and county property. I support the original OVO provisions as outlined in the current city staff agenda report dated 4/12/22. ‐‐
Janel Garvin, CEO
Evans Data Corp
340 Soquel Ave
Santa Cruz, CA 95062
831‐425‐8451
***Delivering Developer Focused Data Since 1998***

31.1340
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Michael Becker <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 1:37 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Throw out the Planning Commission’s RV Parking changes Please throw out the ridiculous RV parking ordinance changes recommended by the Planning Commission.

The City of Santa Cruz has been deliberating oversize RV parking for over six years.

From research presented at council in 2015, it was shown that at least 46 California cities have oversize RV parking restrictions. Included were coastal cities Carlsbad, Del Mar, Eureka, Half Moon Bay, Hermosa Beach, Huntington Beach, Laguna Beach, Long Beach, Marina, Redondo Beach, San Diego, San Luis Obispo, San Mateo, Santa Barbara, Santa Monica and Ventura.

The City has studied, analyzed, taken public input, deliberated and even passed new regulations for six years but still can’t effectively regulate any kind of safe and clean neighborhood parking rules. Now the Planning Commission has stepped in to try to eviscerate Council’s most recent effort.

Please throw out the Planning Commission’s changes and pass the ordinance as originally worked out.

31.1341
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Beata Willison <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 1:41 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the RV Ordinance - Protect our families, environment and public health Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

31.1342
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: RVSC of Santa Cruz <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 1:47 PM
To: City Council; Donna Meyers; Renee Golder; Shebreh Kalantari-Johnson; Sonja Brunner; Martine Watkins
Subject: Item 31: Support for OVO as Outlined In Agenda 4/12 Report Dear City Council, In the short time this ordinance has been in force, RV Service Center has seen a HUGE positive environment Shift. Prior to this ordinance, the following was a daily occurrence.

LOST BUSINESS – UPON ARRIVING TO APPOINMENTS, CUSTOMERS WOULD PULL IN And IMMEDIATELY CANCEL, FEELING IT WAS AN UNSAFE ENVIRONMENT TO LEAVE THEIR RV’S FOR REPAIR. ( AT LEAST 2‐3 CUSTOMERS PER WEEK )
A TRAILER WAS STOLEN $35,000
THEFT – THE RVers WOULD COME NIGHTLY, ON TO THE PROPERTY, TRYING TO OPEN CUSTOMERS RV’S TO STEAL BATTERIES AND PROPANE TANKS. IN ADDITION, THEY WOULD PRY OPEN COMPARTMENTS AND STEAL PROPERTY STORED IN RV COMPARTMENTS CAUSING THE BUSINESS AT LEAST $5,000

IT WAS A TRASH AND SEWAGE DUMP IN FRONT OF OUR BUSINESS CENTER – TRASH AND SEWAGE LEFT DAILY ALONG WITH DOG POOP EVERYWHERE
EMBARRASING VIOLENT FIGHTING AND ABUSSIVE LANGUAGE OCCURING DAILY IN AND OUTSIDE OF THE RV’S ON THE STREET CAUSING CUSTOMERS TO LEAVE IN DISGUST ON A POSSITIVE SIDE ‐ AS A RESULT OF THEIR ABSENCE WE HAVE LOWERED SHOP COST AS WE DO NOT NEED TO REMOVE BATTERIES AND PROPANE TANKS TO KEEP FROM LOOSING PROPERTY BY THEFT AND GAINED CUSTOMER CONFIDENCE
PLEASE KEEP THE ORIGINAL OVO PROVISIONS IN PLACE.

APPRECIATION FOR YOUR SUPPORT,
RENA C. MILLS
OWNER
RV SERVICE CENTER OF SANTA CRUZ

31.1343
2 2525 MISSION STREET
SANTA CRUZ, CA 95060
831‐427‐0881
[email protected]
The Lower Westside has been significantly impacted by the consequences of unsanctioned large vehicle camping on our streets. We supported the original OVO passed in November 2021. Thank you Renee for initiating the current review.

Rena Mills
Director of Operations
RVSC of Santa Cruz
Phone: (831) 427‐0881
Fax: (831) 427‐0889
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31.1344
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Phillip Taylor <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 1:48 PM
To: City Council
Cc: Phillip Taylor
Subject: Support and Enforce the Oversized Vehicle Ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Dear Santa Cruz Mayor and Councilpersons,
Thank you who passed the oversized vehicle ordinance, a profoundly needed regulation in our city to help keep our neighborhoods clean, environmentally respectful, healthy and pleasing to the vast majority of residents and visitors to our fine city. There is deep support for this ordinance in my neighborhood on the Westside. Just as there is across the city. This I know is evident in communications to the council.

This is a common‐sense measure to increase safety in our neighborhoods for children, elders and other vulnerable residents. It protects our residential, business, and natural environments (terrestrial and aquatic).

And, the measure reduces significant public health risks.

Please support this ordinance in care of our city, our communities and our economic underpinnings.

Many thanks,
Phillip Taylor
[email protected]
229 Bay St.

31.1345
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Gail Michaelis-Ow <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 2:00 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the RV Ordinance - Protect our families, environment and public health Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

31.1346
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Andrea Williams <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 2:12 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers, Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work. With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance. Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1. Thank you for hearing me and my neighbors. The City should enforce common-sense rules for RVs that will do the following: * Better protect the oceans and environment * Increase neighborhood safety for children * Reduce public health risks caused by poor sanitation and needles * Create a better situation for local businesses, their customers and employees Thank you for serving as Councilmembers.

31.1347
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: sonia breneisen <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 2:20 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers, Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work. With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance. Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1. Thank you for hearing me and my neighbors.

The City should enforce common-sense rules for RVs that will do the following: * Better protect the oceans and environment * Increase neighborhood safety for children * Reduce public health risks caused by poor sanitation and needles * Create a better situation for local businesses, their customers and employees Thank you for serving as Councilmembers.

Nothing is going to change for the better , till people stand up and do the right thing .

Why is there no common sense among the city.

The whole thing is stupid why anything takes so long for anything to get done.

Please somebody grow some b_lls **
Sonia Brown

31.1348
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Lisa Schwarz <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 2:28 PM
To: City Council; Donna Meyers; Renee Golder; Shebreh Kalantari-Johnson; Sonja Brunner; Martine Watkins
Subject: Item 31: Support for OVO as Outlined In Agenda 4/12 Report Dear City Council, The Lower Westside has been significantly impacted by the consequences of unsanctioned large vehicle camping on our streets. We supported the original OVO passed in November 2021. Thank you Renee for initiating the current review. We appreciate the work city has done to establish a safe spaces parking program and appreciate the inclusion of county sites in the identified parking places on city and county property. I support the original OVO provisions as outlined in the current city staff agenda report dated 4/12/22.

31.1349
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Jeff Traugott <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 2:35 PM
To: City Council; Donna Meyers; Renee Golder; Shebreh Kalantari-Johnson; Sonja Brunner; Martine Watkins
Subject: Item 31: Support for OVO as Outlined In Agenda 4/12 Report Dear City Council, The Lower Westside has been significantly impacted by the consequences of unsanctioned large vehicle camping on our streets. We supported the original OVO passed in November 2021. Thank you Renee for initiating the current review. We appreciate the work the city has done to establish a safe spaces parking program and appreciate the inclusion of county sites in the identified parking places on city and county property. I support the original OVO provisions as outlined in the current city staff agenda report dated 4/12/22.

Thanks, Jeff Traugott

31.1350
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Daniel Kostelec <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 2:40 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers, Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work. Thank you for hearing me and my neighbors. The City should enforce common-sense rules for RVs that will do the following: * Better protect the oceans and environment * Increase neighborhood safety for children * Reduce public health risks caused by poor sanitation and needles * Create a better situation for local businesses, their customers and employees Thank you for serving as Councilmembers.

Daniel Kostelec
123 Alhambra Avenue
Santa Cruz CA 95062
831.325.9623

31.1351
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Sybil Anderson-Adams <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 2:46 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers, Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work. With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance. Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1. Thank you for hearing me and my neighbors.

The City should enforce common-sense rules for RVs that will do the following: * Better protect the oceans and environment * Increase neighborhood safety for children * Reduce public health risks caused by poor sanitation and needles * Create a better situation for local businesses, their customers and employees Thank you for serving as Councilmembers.

I was born and raised on the west side of Santa Cruz and now do everything in my power to avoid it. I have walked many times with a friend from the Delaware Avenue side of Natural Bridges to Wilder State Park. We have found syringes on the ground and witnessed the piles of garbage that continue to grow from the illegal camping and never-ending RVs parked along Delaware Avenue. I can only imagine where all the human waste is going. This is not healthy for anyone and has gone on for way too long. I support the guidelines set forth in the paragraph above. Please restore health and safety to the city of Santa Cruz. Thank you! Sybil Anderson-Adams

31.1352
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Caitlin Phillips <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 2:48 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

31.1353
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Carole Mulford <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 3:02 PM
To: City Council; Donna Meyers; Renee Golder; [email protected]; Carole Mulford; Martine Watkins; Sonja Brunner
Subject: Strongly Oppose Planning Commission Amendments to OV Ordinance Dear City Councilmembers and Staff:

I am writing to commend you on the work you have done thus far and support your process and efforts to pass the current OVO ordinance. Although the Westside is impacted the most, all of Santa Cruz County is affected by large vehicles parked illegally resulting in unsafe streets / parks, environmental hazards and our negligence in supporting the unhoused if they are left to live on the streets with no sanitation. We have become a mecca for California and beyond to come to Santa Cruz as the laws are not enforced and illegal parking is given a pass. You have had many open meetings and received thousands of emails and hundreds of speakers telling you the impacts of doing nothing has on residents, businesses and our environment. I appreciate the steps you've taken to pass the current OVO.

But then, I was flabbergasted as to what the Planning Commission snuck in after public comment was closed and no time was given to analyze the feasibility of implementing their new conditions, their impact on effectiveness and fiscal impacts while most of your voting constituents had no idea they did this. To be blunt:

Gobsmacked - dumfounded on what three appointed ( not elected oh and one was recalled) commissioners voted to impose on the law abiding citizens that elected you. While there was no audience and no understandable media coverage - three members completely changed the OV ordinance ( 6 pages are not small amendments; that's a re-write that needs input/ review and impacts to be seen) . Some of the appalling major changes are :

The City will "fund mobile mechanics to repair vehicles , provide free gas- not require any application or intake by participants to receive these free services AND allow people to remain parked in place on city streets if moving would cause " emotional distress" ( no proof required ) The city shall provide an unlimited amount of free parking spaces before they can enforce the ordinance. I am flabbergasted and I believe your constituents will be taken -aback too if you allow these amendments to move forward.

Do not allow these amendments to get any traction and I would look at recalling those that tried to sneak this past the public that has already spoken and the Council that previously voted to implement the OV ordinance.

Appalled,
Carole Mulford

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1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Denise Norris <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 2:59 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the RV Ordinance - Protect our families, environment and public health Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work. With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance. Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1. Thank you for hearing me and my neighbors. The City should enforce common-sense rules for RVs that will do the following: * Better protect the oceans and environment * Increase neighborhood safety for children * Reduce public health risks caused by poor sanitation and needles * Create a better situation for local businesses, their customers and employees Thank you for serving as Councilmembers.

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1 Rosemary Balsley
From: gail mac <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 3:03 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers, Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work. With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance. Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1. Thank you for hearing me and my neighbors.

The City should enforce common‐sense rules for RVs that will do the following: * Better protect the oceans and environment * Increase neighborhood safety for children * Reduce public health risks caused by poor sanitation and needles * Create a better situation for local businesses, their customers and employees Thank you for serving as Councilmembers.

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From: Jeff Moise <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 3:07 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

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From: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 3:09 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the RV Ordinance - Protect our families, environment and public health I support the Oversized Vehicle Ordinance if and only if enforcement of the ordinance is independent of the safe parking program and residential annual oversized parking permits are limited to one (1) per address and require current address documentation.

Also please give SCPD specific instructions to enforce this ordinance in it’s entirety.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

Are you as sick and tired of trying to "solve" the homeless issues in this town as I am of writing letters repeatedly to you requesting your council be the adults at the table and say no more?  Can we please use money and staff time more effectively?  When did it become ok for your decisions to require we tax payers to tolerate and clean up after these people from elsewhere who could care less about Santa Cruz and its environs?
When does the situation become better?  When do we stop welcoming people to trash the City and ruin its environment?
All of the people here squatting and camping and dumping have a myriad of choices and can live elsewhere.  It is not true that they have no where else to go.

Please provide some relief to those of us that follow the rules and pay a huge price to live here. Improve the quality of life for us.

Sincerely,
Diane Romeo
City resident and voter.

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From: TOM VLASSIS <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 3:14 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the RV Ordinance - Protect our families, environment and public health Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work. With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1. Thank you for hearing me and my neighbors. The City should enforce common-sense rules for RVs that will do the following: * Better protect the oceans and environment * Increase neighborhood safety for children * Reduce public health risks caused by poor sanitation and needles * Create a better situation for local businesses, their customers and employees Thank you for serving as Council members.

The latest Planning Commission's proposed rewrite of the OVO doesn't say or do anything to improve or even maintain the "quality of life" issues for those of us residing in R15 neighborhoods so desperately need and deserve.

In fact it is quite the opposite as it doesn't address things like when and where OV's will empty their sewage tanks, what will they do with the large amounts of garbage they develop and currently leave behind their roadway campsites, uninvited strangers residing just outside our homes thus jeopardizing our personal safety. All of these are only exasperated if an OV doesn't move within the Ordinance's time frame. I could go on and on with the list of other concerns and issues but I feel these examples would serve to support my opposition to the the Commission's proposal before you.

As a person born and raised in Santa Cruz, I urge you please do not accept or implement the changes submitted by the Commission. I can not and will not support the Commission's proposal.

Respectfully,
Tom Vlassis
101 Heath St.

Santa Cruz, CA 95060

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1 Rosemary Balsley
From: brandi moran <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 3:14 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

Sent from my iPhone

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From: Philip Mekis <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 3:17 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

Very much appreciated,
Philip Mekis

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1 Rosemary Balsley
From: jacqueline libbey <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 3:25 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers, Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work. With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance. Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1. Thank you for hearing me and my neighbors.

The City should enforce common-sense rules for RVs that will do the following: * Better protect the oceans and environment * Increase neighborhood safety for children * Reduce public health risks caused by poor sanitation and needles * Create a better situation for local businesses, their customers and employees Thank you for serving as Councilmembers.

Thank you from a life time Santa Cruz resident.

Jackie Libbey

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From: Margaret Plageman <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 3:15 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

Sent from my iPhone

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From: Laurie Howard-Pera <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 3:34 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

Thank you for hearing from me and my neighbors. The City should enforce common-sense rules for RVs that will do the following:
* Better protect the oceans and environment
* Increase neighborhood safety for children
* Reduce public health risks caused by poor sanitation and needles * Create a better situation for local businesses, their customers and employees Thank you for serving as Councilmembers.

Laurie Pera

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From: David Kunis <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 3:41 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

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1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Statewide Self Storage <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 3:43 PM
To: City Council; Donna Meyers; Renee Golder; Shebreh Kalantari-Johnson; Sonja Brunner; Martine Watkins
Subject: Item 31: Support for OVO as Outlined In Agenda 4/12 Report Dear City Council, The Lower Westside has been significantly impacted by the consequences of unsanctioned large vehicle camping on our streets. We supported the original OVO passed in November 2021. Thank you Renee for initiating the current review. We appreciate the work city has done to establish a safe spaces parking program and appreciate the inclusion of county sites in the identified parking places on city and county property. I support the original OVO provisions as outlined in the current city staff agenda report dated 4/12/22.

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From: Suzie Golden-Riley <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 3:58 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the RV Ordinance - Protect our families, environment and public health Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

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From: Brenda Payne <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 3:48 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work. At the end of Delaware Ave. where many oversized vehicles have parked, creating many problems with garbage, waste, etc. it is a health and safety problem for those of us who happen to reside nearby.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance. Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

Thank you for hearing me and my neighbors. The City should enforce common-sense rules for RVs that will do the following:
 Better protect the oceans and environment
 Increase neighborhood safety for children
 Reduce public health risks caused by poor sanitation and needles  Create a better situation for local businesses, their customers and employees Thank you for serving as Councilmembers.

Best,
Brenda Payne
DeAnza Resident

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From: d wirkman <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 4:01 PM
To: City Council; Larry Imwalle
Subject: OVO Agenda Item 4/12/22
Mayor Brunner and Council,
Good sanitation, public safety, and public health are of utmost importance to the lives of all residents. Please expedite a "safe parking" program.

Sincerely,
Debra Wirkman
Resident, City of Santa Cruz

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From: Anthony Loero <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 4:03 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers, Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work. With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance. Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1. Thank you for hearing me and my neighbors.

The City should enforce common-sense rules for RVs that will do the following: * Better protect the oceans and environment * Increase neighborhood safety for children * Reduce public health risks caused by poor sanitation and needles * Create a better situation for local businesses, their customers and employees Thank you for serving as Councilmembers.

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From: John Do <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 4:05 PM
To: Bonnie Bush; City Council; Sonja Brunner
Cc: Bill Freeman; Sean Betouliere; Thomas Zito
Subject: Comment on OSV Ordinance and Associated Permits for 4-12 Meeting Attachments: 2022.01.24 Coastal Permit Appeal to Planning Commission_Final.pdf To the Santa Cruz City Council:

On behalf of the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California (“ACLU”), Disability Rights Advocates (“DRA”), Abbi Samuels, Peter Gelblum, and Veronica Crow (together, “Appellants”), we write to request that the City Council reject the associated permits, as proposed by staff, for Ordinance 2021‐20 (the “Ordinance”), which effectively prohibit people from residing in “oversized vehicles (“OSVs”) within the City.

Appellants previously demanded the Ordinance be rescinded and appealed the associated coastal permit to the Planning Commission. After the Planning Commission modified the permit conditions to mitigate the Ordinance’s negative impacts on unhoused residents, City staff now proposes stripping these protections as seen in the April 5, 2022 Agenda Report (“Staff Proposal”). The Staff Proposal allows for enforcement of the Ordinance so long as there is but one single “safe parking” location in place. The City’s aspirational three tier safe parking program is yet to be operational. Such plans will have barriers to entry, limits on duration of stays, and require participants to move daily, which can be cost prohibitive. Further, there are no plans for sufficient “safe parking” capacity for all vehicularly‐housed people in Santa Cruz. As such, the Staff Proposal will further drive vehicularly‐housed people out of Santa Cruz and subject others to fines, arrest, and harassment.

Moreover, it would be impractical and concerning for the City to make registering for a program a pre‐requisite to avoiding enforcement under the Ordinance until the City has committed to making sufficient no‐barrier spaces available. Without this commitment, there will be no incentive for people to register for a parking program, and it is not realistic to expect that they would register. That being the case, punishing people who have failed to register would be punitive and counter‐ productive.

The City should move away from an enforcement model to address homelessness. The City contends that the Ordinance and associated permits are aimed at increasing coastal access. But for whom and at whose expense? The Staff Proposal makes clear the City’s aim is to privilege those who can afford fixed housing over those who cannot, a population that is disproportionately Black, people of color, and people with disabilities. The Staff Proposal remains unlawful and cruel and should be rejected.

In closing, we further ask the City Council to identify its authority to unilaterally change the permit conditions and direct the City Council to the attached prior appeal which further outlines the deficiencies in the City’s policy on oversized vehicles.

Regards,
JOHN THOMAS H. DO

STAFF ATTORNEY

RACIAL & ECONOMIC JUSTICE PROGRAM
39 DRUMM ST., SAN FRANCISCO, CA, 94111
415-293-6333 | [email protected] | HE/HIM

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Transmitted Via Electronic Mail
January 24, 2022
City Clerk Bonnie Bush
[email protected]
Santa Cruz City Council
[email protected]
City of Santa Cruz Planning Commission
[email protected]
809 Center Street
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Re: Appeal of OSV Ban Ordinance and Associated Coastal Permit To the Santa Cruz City Council and Planning Commission:

By this letter, the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California (“ACLU”), Disability Rights Advocates (“DRA”), Abbi Samuels, Peter Gelblum, and Veronica Crow (together, “Appellants”) demand the City of Santa Cruz (“City” or “Santa Cruz”) rescind Ordinance 2021- 20 (the “OSV Ban Ordinance” or “Ordinance”), which effectively prohibits people from residing in “oversized vehicles (“OSVs”) within the City. Pursuant to Santa Cruz Municipal Code (“SCMC”) Sections 24.04.182-183, this letter also serves as a notice of appeal of the coastal permit issued by the Zoning Administrator on January 12, 2022 in support of the OSV Ban Ordinance (“Permit”).
1 The Ordinance and the Permit violate the California Coastal Act and 1 With this notice of appeal, Appellants submit the demanded $699 fee under protest. Under the unambiguous terms of the Municipal Code, such a fee is not to be charged with respect to “developments project which are appealable to the Coastal Commission.” See SCMC § 24.04.182 (“A written notice of appeal, together with the appropriate fee, except development projects which are appealable to the Coastal Commission where no fee will be charged, must be received by the secretary to the zoning board or the city clerk…”) (emphasis added). The City’s Planning Commission website provides the same. See Planning Commission, CITY OF SANTA CRUZ, https://www.legalbluebook.com/bluebook/v21/rules/18-the-internet-electronic-media-and-othernonprint-resources/18-2-the-internet#b-320180 (last accessed Jan. 24, 2022). Further, the January 12, 2022 Zoning Administrator Agenda states “an appeal must be accompanied by a six hundred ninety-nine dollar ($699) filing fee, unless the item involves a Coastal Permit that is appealable to the Coastal Commission, in which case there is no fee.” CITY OF SANTA CRUZ, January 12, 2022 Special Meeting Zoning Administrator Agenda (Jan. 12, 2022), https://ecm.cityofsantacruz.com/OnBaseAgendaOnline/Meetings/ViewMeeting?id=1845&docty pe=1. Although OSV Ban, Project No. CP21-0174, also included a design permit, it principally involves a coastal permit, and therefore no fee should be charged. Appellants demand that the City

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related environmental justice policies, and Santa Cruz’s local plans (including its General Plan, Housing Element, Local Coastal Program, and Municipal Code). The Ordinance and Permit also violate the Federal and California Constitutions and Federal and State disability laws. If enforced, the OSV Ban and associated Coastal Permit would have a disproportionate impact on marginalized groups, driving people of color, people with disabilities, and low-income people out of the City.

I. Interests of the Appealing Parties
The ACLU and DRA are civil rights organizations that have repeatedly written to the City to inquire about its treatment of unhoused people, including vehicularly housed people. The ACLU and DRA submit this appeal both as organizations and on behalf of all people whose rights would be harmed if the OSV Ban Ordinance and Permit were allowed to go into effect.

Abbi Samuels and Peter Gelblum are members of the Santa Cruz ACLU Chapter who have individually contested the City’s OSV Ban. Ms. Samuels lives on the Westside and is a neighbor of many vehicularly housed people in the area. Mr. Gelblum owns an OSV and has parked within the Coastal Zone, including when evacuated due to recent wildfires.

Veronica Crow is a 70-year-old woman who lives in a recreational vehicle (“RV”) next to the ocean in west Santa Cruz. Ms. Crow resides in her RV because she cannot afford housing rents in Santa Cruz on her fixed income. She has several disabilities, including chronic brain cancer and arthritis in her hands and knees. Due to her disabilities, she cannot stay in congregate-type shelters (which are full) as the increased noise and stimulus cause her headaches to be even more unbearable. Congregate shelters also fail to provide sufficient safety for her as a trans woman. She has attempted to secure “safe parking” with the Association of Faith Communities (“AFC”) Safe Parking Program without success. She always strives to be a good neighbor, but she is harassed and ticketed by the City.

If the OSV Ban is allowed to go into effect, Ms. Crow fears it will be aggressively and repeatedly enforced against her. She would be unable to park her RV on any of the designated spots along West Cliff Drive because it will be too big, too close to an intersection, or in a prohibited overnight area. Thus, if she were unable to park her RV in the coastal zone due to the ordinance she would effectively be driven out of Santa Cruz and the coast, and would have to drive miles to get to the ocean every day. However, she would be unable to afford that because of prohibitive gas costs— driving her RV is very expensive as it gets just five miles per gallon. Furthermore, if she were in a safe parking program an unknown distance away from the beach, she would be dependent on it to be close enough to walk to the beach every day, notwithstanding her disabilities. Being fined for parking her RV would make it even more difficult for Ms. Crow to afford food and other necessities, and make the possibility of returning to fixed housing even farther out of reach. Being towed for accumulating multiple infractions under the OSV Ban would deprive her of all her possessions and leave her with no place to live, leaving her in the precarious prospect of living on refund the fee provided herewith, and similarly refund the fee to any other party who has paid it in connection with an appeal of this project.

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the streets. If she were forced to leave Santa Cruz, she would lose her hometown of eighteen years, access to support groups and friends, access to her doctors, and access to the coast.

Ms. Crow deliberately parks within a half-mile from the ocean. She walks along the beach and along the cliffs every day. She loves the water and used to surf. Her dog Eric also loves it— especially playing with other dogs at the dog beach. She has said that “the ocean is the only thing that keeps me sane.” She has always lived relatively close to the beach, claiming “the peace and tranquility are in [her] blood, giving [her] a sense of calm.” She used to take her daughter to the seashore frequently and said that it has always been part of her life. She says that once one has lived so close to the ocean and had it in one’s life, it is hard not to feel that way. She would not know what to do without access to it.

Ms. Crow is respectful of people who live in homes with coastal views, avoiding parking in front of their houses. However, she feels that she also has the right to coastal access, having lived next to the coast her whole life, having contributed to the community for over 70 years, and—most importantly—because the ocean is there for the public. She finds the RV Ban and homeowners’ complaints especially galling because coastal access is supposed to be a public right in California, and complaints from wealthy homeowners about RVs ruining their nice views and expensive homes overlooks the fact that one should not be able to buy up the coast in California.

With rising rents, the influx of new homeowners from Silicon Valley have brought in what Ms.

Crow calls a “gated community ethos” that is anti-Californian and that takes away her one of her rights as a Californian—access to the coast. She feels she is being told, “You don’t deserve to be on the beach because you are poor,” an idea she sees as biased, prejudiced, and trying “to privatize the ocean.” She said that coastal access should not just be for people with money.

II. Santa Cruz’ Homelessness Crisis
According to the 2019 Santa Cruz County Homeless Point-in-Time Count (“Count”), there are 2,167 unhoused people in Santa Cruz County (“County”), including those who live in their vehicles.2
78% of all unhoused people in the County are unsheltered, with 69% of chronically homeless people in the County unsheltered. 44% of unhoused people in the County live on the streets or in an encampment; 15% live in a car, van, camper, or RV. Approximately half of the unhoused population in the County is in the City of Santa Cruz. In the City, the Count found 1,197 unhoused residents, 865 of whom were unsheltered (72%). The majority of unhoused people in the County were housed residents in the County for five or more years prior to their houseless status.

In terms of racial demographics, the County’s unhoused population is disproportionately Black and Native American. 33% of unhoused people in the County are Hispanic/Latinx, 8% are Black, 2 Applied Survey Research, 2019 Santa Cruz County Homeless Point-In-Time Survey, SANTA CRUZ CNTY. 14 (2019), https://housingmatterssc.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/08/2019-PITCount-Full-Report.pdf.

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and 10% are Native, as compared to 34%, 1%, and 1% of the general population in the County, respectively. 67% of unhoused people in the County are men and 33% are women.

In terms of disability, 39% of unhoused people in the County reported at least one disabling condition, with 32% reporting a history of mental illness, 30% reporting post-traumatic stress disorder, 26% reporting a physical disability, and 21% reporting chronic health conditions. 31% were employed. In comparison, 7.5% of the City’s general population under 65 reported a disability.

In is undisputed that Santa Cruz lacks sufficient housing, shelter, and parking for its unhoused residents. The City has failed to set up any safe parking on its own nor has it identified the exact number or location of safe parking by nonprofits.

III. The Ordinance and Permit
Unable to alleviate its affordable housing shortage, the City has, for many years, sought to expel unhoused persons from the City by attempting to make it so difficult and dangerous for them to survive that they will decide to move elsewhere to live. The City’s efforts have included issuing repeated citations for alleged violations of unconstitutional laws prohibiting sitting or lying down in public places, or being in public places during prohibited hours; severely limiting the availability of “sanctioned” campground space to areas that are prone to winter flooding, and preventing encampment in other parts of the city; aggressive enforcement of parking and other motor vehicle ordinances targeted at people living in recreational vehicles; and verbally and physically harassing unhoused persons.

Most recently on November 9, 2021, the City Council adopted Ordinance 2021-20, which amended various provisions of the SCMC relating to the parking of oversized vehicles, like RVs.

The Ordinance prohibits the overnight (i.e., between 12:00 a.m. and 5:00 a.m.) parking of OSVs anywhere in the City, with narrow exceptions for OSVs owned by individuals who already own or rent real property and wish to park their OSVs adjacent to their homes. SCMC §10.40.120(a), (g). It also prohibits the parking of OSVs at any time in many locations that are open to parking for other vehicles, such as within 100 feet of a crosswalk, intersection, stop sign, traffic signal, or on any arterial street. SCMC §10.40.120(f). These “prohibited zones” of 100 feet—or one-third the length of a football field—occur multiple times on any given street segment, and are each five times as long as the 20-foot zones “prohibited zones” pertaining to the parking of other vehicles near the same street features. See SCMC §10.40.040. Moreover, the prohibition of parking “at any place within 100 feet of a…boulevard” appears to prohibit parking along the entire length of all “boulevards.” Elsewhere in the SCMC, “boulevard” is defined as “[a]n arterial street or parkway.” See SCMC 23.24.030.7. Thus, the Ordinance appears to prohibit OSV parking at any time along the entire length of many of the major thoroughfares in the City.3 3 Although the SCMC does not define “arterial street,” according to a City planning document, arterial streets “carry the City’s heaviest traffic flows and provide regional and inter-community access. Arterial streets within the City include Ocean Street, Mission Street, Water Street, Soquel

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In addition, the Ordinance requires that a person living in an OSV may not “permit the area surrounding the oversized vehicle to be maintained in an unsafe, untidy, and/or unsanitary/unhygienic fashion.” “Surrounding areas” must be “kept free from litter, debris, waste, discarded food products…discarded property…unleashed animals, and garbage.” §10.40.120(d).

This subsection of the Ordinance does not define “unsafe” or “untidy;” does not delimit by any kind of measurement what is the “surrounding area;” and imposes on an OSV resident an obligation to clean up after anyone else who may choose to dump trash or debris in the vicinity of their vehicle. A violation of this provision is a criminal misdemeanor, which subjects the person living in the vehicle to arrest4 and is punishable by a fine of up to $1,000 and imprisonment for up to 6 months. SCMC §4.04.010(5). A single violation also subjects the vehicle to towing under Cal.

Vehicle Code § 22651(h)(i).5 In addition, under the Vehicle Code, an accumulation of as few as five parking citations can subject a vehicle to towing. Cal. Vehicle Code § 22651. Given the history of the City’s enforcement of other parking ordinances against RV residents, this section is a powerful weapon that is likely to be used aggressively as a means to unlawfully threaten and harass OSV residents.6
The Ordinance provides that any person who parks an oversized vehicle such as an RV anywhere in the City between the hours of 12:00 p.m. and 5:00 a.m. is subject to punitive and excessive fines and towing, regardless of the unavailability of alternative shelter or a “safe parking” alternative within the City.

While the Ordinance makes passing reference to the possibility that the City “may” operate or sponsor a “safe parking” program to enable people living in RVs to park their vehicles safely on City-owned property, it neither requires the City to develop such a program nor makes the ability of the City to ticket and tow the homes of vehicularly housed persons conditional on the availability of any “safe parking” spaces or alternative shelter.

Avenue, Broadway Avenue, Laurel Street, Bay Street, Delaware Avenue, Morrissey Boulevard, Murray Street, San Lorenzo Boulevard, Seabright Avenue, Market Street, Beach Street, Second Street, Front Street, Pacific Avenue, Cedar Avenue, Center Street, Walnut Street, River Street and High Street. CITY OF SANTA CRUZ, General Plan 2030 Draft EIR at 4.4-7, https://www.cityofsantacruz.com/home/showdocument?id=22462. 4 SCMC § 4.02.050 provides that “City enforcement officials are authorized to arrest” a person “whenever the enforcement official has reasonable cause to believe that the person has committed a violation of the municipal code…in his or her presence.” 5 Cal. Vehicle Code § 22651(h)(i) provides that a peace officer “may remove a vehicle…if [the] officer arrests a person driving or in control of a vehicle for an alleged offense and the officer is…required or permitted to take, and does take, the person into custody.” 6 By contrast, with respect to other violations of the municipal code, the City appears to encourage enforcement by administrative citations. See SCMC § 4.14.010.

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IV. The Ordinance and Permit Unlawfully Limit Access to the Coast and are Contrary to California Environmental Justice Principles
This is not the first time the City has attempted, by the enactment of an ordinance, to expel persons living in RVs. In 2016, the City passed a similar OSV ordinance and approved a coastal permit, which never went into effect following a finding by the Coastal Commission of the existence of a “substantial issue.” Like the prior iteration presented to the Coastal Commission in August 2016, the OSV Ban Ordinance and associated Permit unlawfully limit access to the coast, particularly for low-income people, people of color, and those with disabilities. And given the amendment of relevant legislation in 2016 authorizing both the “issuing agency” and the Coastal Commission to consider environmental justice principles, the Ordinance and Permit must be reconsidered. Pub.

Res. Code § 30604(h). The City has not cured the deficiencies identified by the Coastal Commission. The Ordinance and Permit create an absolute overnight OSV ban city-wide, severely curtail daytime OSV parking, treat RV inhabitants differently than persons who dwell in fixed housing, and uniquely subject OSV residents to criminal liability for their undefined “surrounding area[s].” The repackaged OSV Ban and associated Coastal Permit are still supported by scant evidence of the link between purported harms and RV residents. Instead, there is a perpetuation of stereotypes about poor people. Nor is the ban narrowly tailored to address those harms. Similarly, there is little data or analysis on the number of OSV residents and the availability of alternative parking. The City still has no publicly-provided safe parking alternative and relies on vague aspirational expansion of privately run safe parking programs. Condoning the OSV Ban and associated Coastal Permit will only encourage the proliferation of these exclusionary policies across the state.

Article X of the California Constitution guarantees the right of access to navigable waters for all people. The California Coastal Act Section 30210 mandates that “maximum access…and recreational opportunities shall be provided for all the people…” Additionally, Section 30312.5 provides that “public facilities, including parking areas or facilities, shall be distributed throughout an area.” Further, Section 30223 protects “upland areas necessary to support coastal recreational uses,” including parking areas. It is undisputed that the OSV Ban Ordinance and Permit would severely limit street parking opportunities for OSV residents without any guaranteed alternatives.

The Coastal Commission’s 2016 questions and observations remain equally unanswered and applicable to the current OSV Ban and Coastal Permit application.7 Commissioners Howell and
Turnbull-Sanders asked how the City could blame OSV residents with any increase of crime. The City provides the same vague conclusory response. One of the few specific statistics provided is a reference to a mere three of thirty-eight recent fire incidents being related to an OSV.8 7 Cal. Coastal Comm’n, August 10, 2016 Meeting, https://cal-span.org/unipage/?site=calspan&owner=CCC&date=2016-08-10. 8 City of Santa Cruz, Jan. 12, 2022 Zoning Administrator Agenda Report at 1.3, https://ecm.cityofsantacruz.com/OnBaseAgendaOnline/Documents/Downloadfile/Zoning_Admi nistrator_-
_Special_Meeting_1845_Agenda_Packet_1_12_2022_10_00_00_AM.pdf?documentType=5&m eetingId=1845&isAttachment=True.

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Conspicuously absent is any evidence of a “specific nexus,” as Commissioners Turnbull-Sanders descried, that increased debris, water discharges, or thefts are causally connected to OSV residents.

Instead, the Ordinance and Permit wrongly “identif[ies] anyone [who] is homeless as a chronic drug user or thief” in the words of Commissioner McClure. The City has therefore failed to substantiate neighborhood complaints, raising the possibility that the complaints are actually driven by blanket animus towards unhoused people.

Not only do the alleged harms need to be substantiated, but the Coastal Commission requires that proposed solutions must be narrowly tailored. The City has failed to make any effort to tailor its proposed solutions. It has, for example, failed to consider providing RV residents with trash disposal or waste disposal.9
As Commissioner McClure observed, the provision of services also does not lead to a drawing in of unhoused people. Rather, if the OSV Ban and Coastal Permit are affirmed, it is such “drastic draconian” policies that would spread.10 Despite multiple commissioners inquiring about the City’s identification of parking alternatives in 2016, Santa Cruz provides largely the same response now. In the intervening six years, the City has not created a single public safe parking spot. Not one. Instead, the City identifies the same Association of Faith Communities safe parking program. “As many as 22 spots” are available in Santa Cruz, but their locations, requirements, and the hours of operation are not disclosed. It is therefore unknown whether such spaces can accommodate all OSV residents. Indeed, the City does not even provide a meaningful estimate of the number OSV residents. The City proffers a number of 65 OSVs based on a count of limited streets. The conservative 2019 Point-in-Time Homeless Count suggests there are 180 vehicularly housed people in Santa Cruz. Further, the Santa Cruz Police Department cited 294 OSVs in 2021, suggesting the number of OSVs is far greater than 65.

The City has also failed to provide any analysis on the impact of its daytime parking restrictions.

Neither the unspecified AFC program spots nor the City’s aspirational goal of adding 3 emergency parking spots and 30 safe parking spots can accommodate the need. The City has provided no specifics about their safe parking plans, hinting only that the programs would be time-limited (nighttime hours only), located outside of the Coastal Zone, and limited to unhoused people who meet certain barriers. Given the City’s abysmal record of creating additional parking alternatives, the aspiration parking should not be credited when considering the OSV Ban and Coastal Permit.

Without alternatives, the OSV Ban and Coastal Permit will only “push[] out” people and have them “living on the street instead” as Commissioner Turnbull-Sanders observed. Or in the words of Commissioner McClure, it is time to stop “chasing people around the city.” Newly adopted environmental justice policies also require reconsideration of the OSV Ban and Coastal Permit. In late 2016, the Governor signed AB 2616, which amended the Coastal Act and gives the Coastal Commission new authority to specifically consider environmental justice when 9 Id. at 1.7.
10 August 10, 2016 Meeting, supra n.7 (quoting Commissioner Vargas).

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making permit decisions. § 30604(h)11. The unanimously adopted 2019 Environmental Justice Policy provide that “opportunities not be denied on the basis of background, culture, race, color, religion, national origin, income, ethnic group, age, disability status, sexual orientation, or gender identity.”12 This specifically includes “low-income communities and communities of color that are disproportionately burdened by or less able to prevent, respond, and recover from adverse environmental impacts.”13 It further states that “[t]he coast belongs to everyone, and access cannot be denied or diminished on the basis of race, ethnicity, income socio-economic status, or place of residence or other factors listed in the Policy Statement.”14 Therefore, development and permits should “protect, encourage, and provide lower-cost visitor and recreational opportunities embody fundamental principles of environmental justice, “identify[] and eliminat[e] barriers…in order to provide for those who may be otherwise deterred from going to the beach or coastal zone.” The Coastal Commission must “strive for a no-net-loss of lower-cost facilities in the coastal zone, while implementing a longer-term strategy to increase the number and variety of new lower-cost opportunities.”15 Santa Cruz provides for no environmental justice analysis, let alone a demonstration of compliance. Had the City considered these equity principles, the Ordinance and Permit could not survive. OSV residents, like all unhoused people, are disproportionately people of color, people with disabilities, and poor. Unlike those who can afford to live on Santa Cruz’ coast in fixed housing, the Ordinance and Permit target OSV residents’ access to the coast by baring overnight parking, limiting daytime parking, and subjecting them to fines, towing, and arrest. And again, no reasonable alternatives are provided.

V. The Ordinance and Permit do not Comply with Santa Cruz’ General Plan, Housing Element, Local Coastal Program, and Municipal Code
The Ordinance and Permit are in direct conflict with provisions of the Santa Cruz 2030 General Plan (“General Plan”). Santa Cruz’s General Plan provides policies to effectuate a vision and principle of a balanced community with mobility, parks and recreation, affordable housing options, and community services. The General Plan states Santa Cruz will “maintain the community’s longstanding commitment to shared social and environmental responsibility, fostering a balance between employment, housing affordable to persons of all income levels, transportation, and 11 “Where a local government fails to consider environmental justice when evaluating a proposed development that has the potential to adversely or disproportionately affect a historically disadvantaged group’s ability to reach and enjoy the coast, that failure may be the basis for an appeal to the Coastal Commission. Similarly, where a local coastal program includes policies that implement environmental justice principles, a local government’s failure to consider those principles may also be the basis of an appeal to the Coastal Commission.” Environmental Justice Policy at 7.
12 Cal. Coastal Comm’n, Environmental Justice Policy at 4 (Mar. 8, 2019), https://documents.coastal.ca.gov/assets/env-justice/CCC_EJ_Policy_FINAL.pdf (“Environmental Justice Policy”) (emphasis added).
13 Ibid.
14 Id. at 7 (emphasis added).
15 Ibid. (emphasis added).

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natural resources.”16 The Ordinance and Permit instead provide for disparate treatment of those who have the means to live on Santa Cruz’s coast in fixed housing and those who must live in their oversized vehicles.

The City is to “integrat[e] automobile use”17 and “[e]ncourage innovative solutions that provide adequate parking.”18 The Ordinance does the opposite by limiting vehicle usage and parking. It makes streets inaccessible to people living in their vehicles by providing for an outright ban in the evening and severely curtails daytime parking without mandating additional, alternative parking for the parking lost.

The General Plan’s prescriptions on parks and recreation are equally ignored. Under PR3.3 the City is to “enhance publicly accessible coastal and open space areas.” This includes “ensur[ing] that development does not interfere with the public’s right to access the ocean,” (PR3.3.2), “requiring new development and public works projects to provide public access from the nearest public roadway to the shoreline and along the coast” (PR3.3.3), and “maximize public access and enjoyment of recreation areas along the coastline” (PR3.3.4). The public includes those who must reside in their vehicles, not just those with fixed housing. Therefore, the OSV Ban uniquely restricts RV residents, contrary to these provisions.

Furthermore, rather than promote “prosperity for all” or provide “provide excellent social services” (General Plan at 8), the OSV Ban and Coastal Permit promote instability by potentially stripping RV residents of their only homes. Rather than provides services or ensure alternative parking, the OSV Ban and Coastal Permit would leave people unsheltered in public.

They also run counter to Santa Cruz’ 2015-2023 Housing Element, which provides that housing for “extremely low, very low, low, and moderate income households is of utmost concern.”19 “Mobile homes,” “any vehicle designed, used, or intended to be used generally for living and/or sleeping quarters which is capable of moving, being moved, towed or transported,” can be part of meeting that need which should be maintained.20 The Housing Element 3.1 also recognizes the special needs of housing for people with disabilities and the need for services. Again, the Ordinance and Permit limit use of OSVs, which disproportionately impacts people with disabilities, and fails to require the provision of any services to accommodate them.

The Coastal Act also requires that all counties and cities lying within the coastal zone prepare a Local Coastal Program (LCP) to guide coastal development actions with that jurisdiction. The City must ensure that any coastal permit will “[m]aintain public access to the coast along any coastline as set forth in the Local Coastal Land Use Plan.” SCMC § 24.08.250. The Santa Cruz LCP is “an 16 City of Santa Cruz, General Plan at 1 (June 2012),
https://www.cityofsantacruz.com/Home/ShowDocument?id=33418. 17 Ibid.
18 Id. M1.5.2.
19 CITY OF SANTA CRUZ, 2015-2030 Housing Element of the General Plan at 7-113 (Mar. 22, 2016),
https://www.cityofsantacruz.com/home/showpublisheddocument/53522/636924960003000000. 20 Id. at 6-62.

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integral part of the City’s General Plan since planning and land-use policies within the coastal zone are issues of concern to the community as a whole” and is aimed at “maximiz[ing] access to the coast for people of all income ranges.”21 It includes directives to “enhance public access, open space quality and recreational enjoyment in a manner that is consistent with the California Coastal Act,”22, “ensure that development does not interfere with the public’s right to access the ocean,”23 and “[d]evelop and implement plans to maximize public access and enjoyment of recreations areas along the coastline.”24 For the above reasons, the OSV Ban limits public access to the coast, particularly poor people, people of color, and those with disabilities. The LCP also has specific provisions requiring that vehicular access to coastal areas is maintained, including free parking.25 Prohibiting oversized vehicles from parking on city streets directly impedes that access.

VI. The Ordinance and Permit are Unconstitutional
Under the Eighth Amendment’s prohibition on “cruel and unusual punishment,” the City is prohibited from punishing indigent persons for life sustaining activities so long as those persons do not have reasonable alternatives for shelter. See Martin v. City of Boise, 902 F.3d 1031, 1048 (9th Cir. 2018), amended by 920 F.3d 584 (9th Cir. 2019), cert. denied, 140 S. Ct. 674 (2019). The Eighth Amendment also prohibits excessive fines, where the fine is grossly disproportionate to the gravity of the offense, will deprive the offender of their livelihood or is more than their circumstances and estate will bear. See Timbs v. Indiana, 139 S. Ct. 682 (2019); see also Article I, § 17 of the California Constitution. As the Supreme Court has recognized, excessive fines have often been used to wrongly punish status or a disfavored group. Timbs, 139 S. Ct. at 688-89. The OSV Ban violates these prohibitions because it imposes penalties for living in the only shelter some have access to, their RVs parked on public roads in Santa Cruz. There are not enough adequate shelters, housing, or safe parking for the unhoused in the City. So, for many, the only place to protect oneself from the elements is to sleep or simply “be” is in their vehicles. It is clear that the City seeks to RV residents from the City by (1) issuing repeating parking citations so as to make it economically impossible for such persons to live in their RVs, (2) increasing the likelihood of losing their homesthrough impoundment, and (3) threatening a loss of liberty through imprisonment. Accordingly, the OSV Ban violates the Eighth Amendment.

Further, under the Due Process Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment, a government may not act with deliberate indifference to place a person in a position of known or obvious danger that they would not otherwise have faced. OSV Ban Ordinance violates this prohibition because it 21 City of Santa Cruz, Local Coast Program and Coastal Land Use Policies and Maps at 1 (Oct. 27, 1992),
https://www.cityofsantacruz.com/home/showpublisheddocument/51167/636924963727070000 (“Local Coast Program”) (emphasis added).
22 Local Coast Program, Land Use Element, 3.5,
https://www.sccoplanning.com/Portals/2/County/userfiles/106/GP_Chapter%202_Land%20Use (“Land Use Element”).pdf.
23 Land Use Element, 3.5.2.
24 Land Use Element, 3.5.5.
25 Land Use Element, 3.5.4; Local Coast Program, Parks and Recreation Element Policies 1.7,

1.7.1, 1.7.2.

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empowers the City to fine RV residents (and potentially arrest them), forcing them into even greater financial destitution, and to tow the vehicles which constitute their homes and only shelter, exposing them to the severe hardship of being unsheltered in public. This would deprive them greater access to food, water, electricity, secure sleeping, storage of life necessities, and access to care and services which undoubtedly heightens the level of stress and anxiety among persons who are already confronted with the significant challenges posed by their poverty. During the COVID19 pandemic, the risks posed to individuals whose homes are towed are even greater. Individuals whose homes are towed are exposed to an increased risk of contracting the COVID-19 virus because they are unable to limit their travel in their homes. Rather than take COVID-19 into account, the City has expressly provided that it will only suspend enforcement during nonpandemic related emergencies.

The Federal and State Constitutions also protect the right of freedom of movement and travel. U.S. v. Wheeler, 254 U.S. 281, 293 (1920); In re White, 97 Cal. App. 3d 141, 148 (1979). Because the OSV Ban effectively banishes RV residents from the coast and the City, without sufficient justification, it is unconstitutional.

VII. The Ordinance and Permit Fail to Comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act and the California Disabled Persons Act
Title II of the Americans with Disabilities Act (“ADA”) provides: “no qualified individual with a disability shall, by reason of such disability, be excluded from participation in or be denied the benefits of the services, programs, or activities of a public entity, or be subjected to discrimination by any such entity.” 42 U.S.C. § 12132. A public entity is prohibited from “utiliz[ing] criteria or methods…that have the effect of subjecting qualified individuals with disabilities to discrimination on the basis of disability.” 28 C.F.R. § 35.130(b)(3)(i) (emphasis added). Further, under Title II a public entity is affirmatively obligated to make “reasonable modifications” when necessary to avoid discrimination based on disability unless the modifications would fundamentally alter the nature of the service, program, or activity. See 28 C.F.R. § 35.130(b)(7). The California Disabled Persons Act (“CDPA”) incorporates the ADA and states that “a violation of the right of an individual under the Americans with Disabilities Act…constitutes a violation of the CDPA. Cal.

Civ. Code § 54.1(d).

People with disabilities are overrepresented in the City of Santa Cruz’s houseless population and many rely on oversized vehicles as their only form of shelter and vehicular transportation. Many such individuals have a disability-related need to remain in their RVs, which are crucial to managing their disabilities, and maintaining their physical and mental health. Though enforcement of the OSV Ban will harm everyone who uses an RV and seeks to access the coast in Santa Cruz, it will harm this population of houseless people with disabilities in a different and greater way. As just one example, while vehicularly-housed people who do not have disabilities may be able to walk the distances required to access services, facilities, and coastal areas the OSV Ban will prevent them from parking near—albeit with difficulty—many people with disabilities cannot.

Moreover, the OSV Ban does not provide or allow for any accommodations to ensure that people with disabilities who rely on RVs for shelter and transportation are not disproportionately denied access to the coast, and to services and facilities in the Coastal Area.

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VIII. Conclusion
For the above reasons, the OSV Ban and associated Coastal Permit should be rescinded.

Sincerely,
William S. Freeman, Senior Counsel
[email protected]
John Thomas H. Do, Staff Attorney
[email protected]
American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California
39 Drumm Street
San Francisco, CA 94111
(415) 293-6387
Thomas P. Zito, Supervising Attorney
[email protected]
Sean Betouliere, Staff Attorney
[email protected]
Disability Rights Advocates
2001 Center Street, 4th Floor
Berkeley, CA 94704
510-529-3412
Counsel for Appellants American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, Disability Rights Advocates, Abbi
Samuels, Peter Gelblum, and Veronica Crow
Cc:

City Attorney Anthony P. Condotti
[email protected]
Catherine Bronson
[email protected]
Assistant Director of Planning & Community Development Eric Marlatt [email protected]
Planning & Community Development Administrative Assistant Allison Webster [email protected]

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From: Pete Kennedy <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 4:05 PM
To: City Council
Subject: 31. Oversized Vehicle Appeal
I voted against this as planning commissioner, and ask that you restore the original ordinance.

This ordinance was developed with care and passed after a long and thought out public process. Attempting to make changes, willy nilly, at the last minute, is inappropriate at best. The way this was done, surprising staff, council, and commissioners with last minute changes, during the meeting no less, is reason enough to deny the changes.

Thanks in advance for correcting this.

Best
Pete Kennedy
Planning Commissioner

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From: No One <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 4:12 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Support for Original Oversized Vehicle Ordinance Dear Mayor Brunner and Members of the City Council,
Please accept the staff coastal zoning permit recommendations for the Oversized Vehicle Ordinance and do not include the amendments proposed by the Planning Commission. Our neighborhood streets are not public campgrounds, nor should they be.

A great deal of thought, time and effort went into the development of the ordinance as adopted by council in November 2021. Please continue to work with the county to provide additional safe parking areas on both city and county properties, as well as in the provision of mental health, addiction programs, transitional housing and other social services, as funding becomes available.

It is my understanding that the city council received almost 1,000 emails in support of the ordinance when it was introduced last fall and there is still broad support for regulating oversized vehicles in the community. Please continue to move forward with implementation of the ordinance and do not allow the threat of legal action to delay this issue further.

Regards,
Nancy Steward

31.1385
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Celticman <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 4:11 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the RV Ordinance - Protect our families, environment and public health Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

Sent from my iPhone

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1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Michael Glasgow <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 4:14 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the RV Ordinance - Protect our families, environment and public health Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work. With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance. Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1. Thank you for hearing me and my neighbors. The City should enforce commonsense rules for RVs that will do the following: * Better protect the oceans and environment * Increase neighborhood safety for children * Reduce public health risks caused by poor sanitation and needles * Create a better situation for local businesses, their customers and employees. Help discontinue the visible blight that has taken over our city. As a liberal person who has lived in Santa Cruz for 49 years, I am finally fed up and feel.the current environment must be changed.

Thanks,
Mike Glasgow

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From: Annie K. Rowland Photography <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 4:14 PM
To: City Council
Subject: I support original Oversized Vehicle Ordinance!!!! with out the revisions from the planning commision
Dear Mayor Brunner and City Council Members,
I can not believe that the city council would take these new recommendations and further cripple the city of santa cruz with even more homeless that want to move in we would not be able to get them to move on. What about providing a safe place and place for paying home owners. The homeless have taken over our Cental SanLorenzo park. I do not ride my bike or walk over there in the last 2 years. In fact I can't tell you the last time I have gone downtown because of the all the homeless. There are so many homeless in Santa Cruz that are not our Homeless, Many of the people living in their cars are not even our locals. At least 1-3 times a month there is someone park in front of my home and living in their car. The hedge that borders my front yard gets filled with unwanted trash, bolt cutters and human waste. At what point do we get to take back our town?! Or are we just going to cater to the homeless? If you agree to this revised plan, you are giving homeless cart blanch, what next, are you going to deliver meals to the people that can't get out of their cars? I know this is a bit extreme but I feel by excepting these revisions you have jumped the tracks. I support all the suggestions of a safe spaces parking program and services to help people live a better life. But I do not wish to make it impossible to control the homeless problem in this town, and I feel these revisions will do just that!!!! When are we coming to take back out town? We will detract people from coming to Santa Cruz other than the homeless. This is a tourist town, a university town, NOT HOMELESSVILLE. If you pass these changes we will attract many more homeless to are town that will never leave.

THe other morning I walked down to the beach with my mom. One of the houses that overlooks the Seabright beach was having its floors re-done, I spoke with the owner standing outside the house and told him, he was so lucky to have such a great location to live. He told me it used to be. He and his family have owned the house since the 70's, now there are so many homeless living in cars parking right in front and on the side of his house.

Parking is limited and they are always there.(Where there is homeless there is stuff) How is it that the homeless get to park closer to his house them he does. So I have walked the last 4 days the same walk down to the beach and sure enough the same cars are all there. Please keep with the original ordinance so we can take back our streets.
annie Rowland
Sincerely,

31.1388
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Audrey Tennant <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 4:21 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

Good Health
Audrey Tennant

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1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Laurie Howard-Pera <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 4:33 PM
To: City Council; Donna Meyers; Renee Golder; Shebreh Kalantari-Johnson; Sonja Brunner; Martine Watkins
Subject: Item 31: Support for OVO as Outlined In Agenda 4/12 Report Dear City Council,
The Lower Westside has been significantly impacted by the consequences of unsanctioned large vehicle camping on our streets. We supported the original OVO passed in November 2021.

Thank you Renee for initiating the current review. We appreciate the work the city has done to establish a safe spaces parking program and appreciate the inclusion of county sites in the identified parking places on city and county property.

I support the original OVO provisions as outlined in the current city staff agenda report dated 4/12/22.

Thank you,
Laurie Pera

31.1390
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Lauren E Eisenberg <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 4:26 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

Lauren Eisenberg, Realtor
Bailey Properties, Inc.
831.419.4018 Mobile
CalBRE#01402836
Sent from my iPhone

31.1391
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Bruce Dau <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 4:40 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

31.1392
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Anne Murphy <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 4:45 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

31.1393
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Silvia Leon <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 4:46 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the oversized vehicle ordinance - Protect the environment, families, and public health
Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers,
Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

Please, enforce the RV's to park in designated areas and not in our neighborhoods. I live across from Garfield Park it clearly says no parking from 12-5am several stay ALL day and night limiting parking to family's to enjoy the park. Us surrounding residents, pay top notch in taxes to be blinded by these large vehicles, not fair. Do the right thing.

31.1394
1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Robert Carling <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 4:46 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the RV Ordinance - Protect our families, environment and public health Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

Robert Carling
ICC Building Inspector
General Contractor

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1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Floyd Williams <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 4:55 PM
To: City Council
Subject: Enforce the RV Ordinance - Protect our families, environment and public health Thank you to the 5 Councilmembers that passed the oversized vehicle ordinance. Don’t let the Planning Commission undermine your hard work.

With nearly 1,000 emails received for the 9/21 introduction and the first reading, there is broad support for this ordinance.

Those urging the Council to vote YES outnumbered the NO vote by nearly 10 to 1.

Sent from my iPhone

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1 Rosemary Balsley
From: Leah Boone <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, April 11, 2022 4:59 PM
To: City Council; Donna Meyers; Renee Golder; Shebreh Kalantari-Johnson; Sonja Brunner; Martine Watkins
Cc: Donna Meyers; Renee Golder; Shebreh Kalantari-Johnson; Sonja Brunner; Martine Watkins
Subject: Item 31: Support for OVO as Outlined In Agenda 4/12 Report Dear City Council,
The Lower Westside has been significantly impacted by the consequences of unsanctioned large vehicle camping on our streets. We supported the original OVO passed in November 2021. Thank you Renee for initiating the current review. We appreciate the work city has done to establish a safe spaces parking program and appreciate the inclusion of county sites in the identified parking places on city and county property. I support the original OVO provisions as outlined in the current city staff agenda report dated 4/12/22.

Leah Boone
Project Manager
Redtree Partners LP
1362 Pacific Avenue
Santa Cruz, CA 95060
Direct: 831.346.6416
Main: 831.427.1900 (x116)

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Santa Cruz City Council
April 12, 2022
CP21-074
 City Council review of Planning Commissions' approval of a Coastal and Design Permits to authorize the development associated with the amended municipal code pertaining to the parking of oversized vehicles and to implement City-wide safe parking programs for unhoused City residents living in oversized vehicles in the City of Santa Cruz.

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Title 10 amending Vehicles and
Traffic was approved by the City
Council on November 9, 2021.
 Coastal and Design Permits are required to implement those changes in the Coastal Zone.

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Coastal and Design Permit – Why?
 Coastal Permit
 Following uses are considered Development in the Coastal Zone:
 Signage restricting oversize vehicles parking from 12 am to 5 a.m.  Safe parking lots located in the Costal Zone
 Design Permit
 Public projects located in the Coastal Zone
 Outside Coastal Zone - Design Permit may be required depending on location

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Coastal and Design Permit Process
 Zoning Administrator approved permits on January 12, 2022  Approval was appealed by Santa Cruz Cares and the ACLU  Planning Commission approved the permits on March 3, 2022 with revised Conditions of Approval
 Council member Golder called the item up for review due to the revised Conditions of Approval
 The City Council hearing is a de novo hearing requiring the permits to be considered anew

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City Council passed a motion to
implement Safe Parking Program.
 Safe parking programs would include a three-tiered approach:
 Emergency overnight safe parking on City-owned parcels for a minimum of three vehicles to be implemented immediately.  Safe overnight parking on City-owned parcels or other non-residential approved spaces for a minimum of thirty vehicles throughout the City to be implemented within four months of passing the ordinance revisions.  A robust safe parking program in partnership with service providers, health providers, and County partners. The following subpopulations will be prioritized: Families with children; seniors; transition age youth; veterans; and those with a valid disabled placard or license plate issued pursuant to the California Vehicle Code.

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Safe Parking
 February 2022 - The City is operating three safe parking locations that allow for nine vehicles to park as part of the Tier 1 and Tier 2 parking programs directed by the Council.
 Initial pilot will solicit feedback from participants living in vehicles.  Modifications will be evaluated as program expands.
 Two of these locations have additional off-street expansion capacity.  Current desire to keep each location small, with up to approx. six vehicles.

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Safe Parking Program
 Generally, off-street locations in public or private parking lots.  Hours generally shall be from 8:00 PM – 8:00 AM time frame.  Sanitation will be provided at all locations.
 No cost to participants in Safe Parking Program.
 Tier 3 facilities where enhanced services are provided may be operated with extended hours, including on a 24/7 basis.  Evaluating two proposals for Tier 3 now. 31.1404
Safe Parking Program
 An Operations and Management Plan for the Safe Parking Program shall be developed by staff and shall contain, at a minimum, the following:
 Procedures for informing law enforcement personnel of nightly availability of Safe Parking Program parking spaces
 Procedures for the filing and resolving of complaints from participants and nearby residents and businesses
 Code of conduct and participation agreement

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Additional support
 Members of the community suggested some ideas to bring forward that they would initiate.
 A voucher Program for Oversized Vehicle Wastewater Dumping.  Financial support subsidies towards vehicle repair and registration.

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Potential actions & next steps
 Recommend that the City Council approve the Coastal and Design Permits with recommended Conditions of Approval attached to the resolution
 Council’s decision can be appealed to the Coastal Commission

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Santa Cruz City Council
April 12, 2022