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PUl GD 1 Gl' LbAr%44 ( Mee L JA,O- Qv -t, .Q+rt June 23, 2019 State Senator Jerry Hill 1528 S. E1 Camino Real San Mateo, CA 94402 Re: AB 516, The Daily Journal "Redwood City to Oppose New Vehicle Tow Ban," Zachary Clark (ZC) p.11 (Yes on AB 516) State Senator and Assemblyman: This letter is going to be delivered in a speech to the Redwood City Council on June 24, 2019, at approximately 7:30 p.m. There is a war going on. This war is not in Afghanistan or Traq, it is right here in California. With the collapse of the middle class, it is between the lower class and the real estate owners who have had their property protected by the local governments. With over twenty percent of the people in the state in poverty, in a lower class, the conflict is just beginning. Here, AB 516 cannot reward anyone, when it destroys the lower class vehicle owner. The letter in this conflict is based on my own experience. T was towed in San Mateo County, and will relate this issue to the ZC journal piece, which is enclosed, and the Redwood City council. Tn the past 2 ',� years, three towns along E1 Camino Real towed four cars of mine. These towns assaulted three San Francisco taxis and my Toyota -with citations -on a daily basis. On some days, T got three citations just on one vehicle. The citations started at $43 and would explode to over $125. Tt did not make a difference, on some days, whether the vehicle was in a one hour, two, or four hour zone. The police or secret meter maids were after me, so T got a citation anyway. With my declining income, the citations were shocking, and unpayable. The Redwood City Council should be aware of this destructive action. Tn 2016, 2017, and 2018, in the US, auto producers sold 45 million vehicles. Millions of them were sold in California. With exploding housing prices and rentals on the West Coast, cities like Redwood City went into overdrive writing citations. Tn the Great Recession with hundreds of thousands of people living in their vehicles, cities along the Peninsula started pushing an increased base of citations. A third or more of the 100,000 Uber and Lyft drivers, who live in their cars, get a big chunk of them. Their increased traffic caused municipalities like Redwood City to issue more citations as road taxes. The increased number of citations were issued to drivers that spent lots of time on the road. This group part of the 75% of the population that does not own real estate. The Redwood City Council is a real estate fortress. 1IPage