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Thank you, Johnny Gusman Senior Building Inspector / Code <br />Enforcement Supervisor” <br />Exhibit ZZ — Senior Assistant City Attorney Lisa Rauch to <br />Stephen Burns <br />January 30, 2026 — denial of the Linda Chang agreement <br />Issue. Two and a half years after Linda Chang of Public Works approved a <br />gate-relocation solution in writing (Exhibit I), the City Attorney’s office <br />formally took the position that no such agreement ever occurred. This is <br />the City’s institutional repudiation of the first of the three written <br />agreements on which Respondents have been relying. <br />Significance. Ms. Rauch’s denial is directly contradicted by Ms. Chang’s <br />own emails (Exhibit I) and by the annotated photograph documenting the <br />agreed 31-inch gate offset. That contradiction is the pattern at the heart of <br />this case: senior City staff agree, junior staff or counsel later deny the <br />agreement was reached, and Respondents pay the cost of the iteration. The <br />denial issued five days before the original citation (February 25, 2026), <br />and was used to clear the way for the citation. (Senior Assistant City <br />Attorney Lisa Rauch left the City April 17, 2026.) <br />“Your 1/28/26 email refers to a ‘solution’ of relocating the gate 31 <br />inches to the right having been reviewed and agreed to by Public <br />Works. There is no information to support that Public Works ever <br />agreed to same.” <br />6.A. - Page 63 of 64 <br />65