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Office of the City Council 200 West Washington Street, 11th Floor Phoenix, Arizona 85003-1611 4 April 2023 City Manager, Jeff Barton 200 W. Washington St., 12th Floor Phoenix, AZ 85003 RE: Add On Item – Moratorium on Development of 3 Mobile Home Parks City Manager Jeff Barton, Phoenix needs real leadership to address our homelessness crisis. Each of us has worked diligently with city staff, community leaders and non-profit partners to bring forward additional shelter beds and improve support services. But we will never be able to make real progress on the problem of homelessness until we look upstream to see how we can prevent people from losing their housing in the first place. In our city today, over 300 residents in mobile home parks are facing eviction without plans as to where they will live. As City leaders, we cannot not sit by as these families face imminent homelessness. The service providers working to connect these residents with housing options are telling us they need more time to ensure these families do not end up on our streets. Therefore, we request that a moratorium on development of 3 mobile home parks (Periwinkle, Las Casitas and Weldon Court) be added to the Formal Agenda scheduled for Wednesday, April 5, 2023, for a full vote of the Phoenix City Council. Councilmember Carlos Garcia Phoenix City Council – District 8 Councilwoman Betty Guardado Phoenix City Council – District 5 Councilwoman Laura Pastor Phoenix City Council – District 4 Attachment A