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Comments from November 15, 2017 Sunshine Ordinance Meeting regarding 2525 N. Main Street A presentation by the Applicant's team was made to outline the development process and the review that the City of Santa Ana will conduct including the environmental review. A brief description of the project design was provided as well as discussion of anticipated benefits to the community. Comments and questions were received from the attendees. Responses have been provided. Land Use: 1. Why buy a property to rezone? o The site was identified in 2015 by the City of Santa Ana as a likely rezone site and the City placed it on its Envision Map, designating it as residential with unlimited height and unlimited density. In addition, the site should be residential because the proposed residential use next to single family residential is a prototypical manner in which cities are planned. Typically, it is much more common for home owners to resist commercial uses next to their homes, not a residential use. In fact" the State of California is now focusing on requiring EIRs to study the impacts of commercial uses adjacent to homes. 2. Build an office project. o Office would create significantly more traffic than the existing use, for instance, a 5 -story office building would generate approximately 10,000 daily trips compared to approximately 2,812 daily trips for the proposed use (if the existing building were occupied it would create 2,938 daily trips). Additionally, office vacancy in this sub -market is approximately 2096, whereas multi family vacancy is less than 3%. Clearly the need for housing in Santa Ana is one of the most extreme. It is well known that Santa Ana is one of the most overcrowded/dense cities in terms of people to housing ratios (for every 1 housing unit, there are 4.5 people; whereas Irvine is 1 to 2.6 and Newport Beach is 1 to 2.2). The existing housing ratio in Santa Ana is detrimental, by creating a shortfall of housing results in over -crowding and unaffordable housing options. 3. Putting Single family units on site will solve crime issue. o We are in the process of researching and studying the effects that a larger amount of people will have on crime in the area. We will share the data with the community once it is completed. 4. No apartments. o We are hopeful that the quality of the community will change these opinions and the neighbors will take the time to learn and better understand about the community and City benefits. S. No re -zoning. EXHIBIT 6 SUNSHINE MEETING MINUTES 2525 NORTH MAIN STREET EIR NO. 2018-01, DA NO. 2018-01, GPA NO.:T f;&22I3D. 2018-10