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o We believe you have a wonderful community and we will look into any means to mitigate this and any existing nuisance. 4. Nearby Apartments are not full and traffic is already miserable. o Santa Ana is among the worst cities in terms of housing shortages in the nation, in fact, Santa Ana's housing share of the housing stock in 2000 was 34% of the housing in the vicinity (including Santa Ana, Costa Mesa, Newport Beach, Irvine, Tustin); however, by 2015 Santa Ana's share was down to 2791b. As noted above, Santa Ana vacancy rate is less than 391o, it is virtually impossible to have a lower vacancy rate; it is clearly indicative of a housing under -supply. There have been countless studies and articles over the last 3.5years documenting Orange County's housing shortage, resulting in folks paying far too much for housing, increasing traffic, increasing pollution, and destroying the quality of life (because people end up spending hours a day in their cars commuting). If Orange County's housing shortage is not solved, it will drive out workers and drag down the region's robust economy. Without more places for workers to live, more 20 and 30 -somethings will leave and business will struggle to recruit high quality employees. 5. Need to account for all the future apartments in Santa Ana and Orange in area in traffic analysis. o The traffic study area is extensive and will address the appropriate area as determined by City staff and will analyze up to 2040 traffic. 6. Need to assume 2 persons per apartment, this is Santa Ana, there won't be 1 person in an apartment. o We have taken into account data from apartment communities in determining the quantity of parking that is necessary to operate an organized and quality community. 7. There is a huge problem with cars running through Park Santiago now. o We will work with our traffic engineers, architects and City staff to make the egress away from Park Santiago community and towards Main Street 8. You think there will be a benefit of reduced traffic with apartments instead of commercial? o Office would create significantly more traffic than the existing use, for instance a 5 -story buildings would generate approximately 10,000 daily trips compared to the approximately 2,812 daily trips for the proposed residential use (if the existing building were fully occupied it would create approximately 2,938 daily trips). 9. What is a trip? o The movement of one car in or out 10. How many trips anticipated for project? You have to assume 90% of people will leave in the morning and come home at same time in evening. o Based on the traffic engineer's study, the proposed project would generate 2,812 trips per day, whereas the existing building if fully used would generate 2,938 trips per day. 11. How many parking stalls are currently on site? 75E-228