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page appendix, to fully understand the project and its impacts and to share such with the community. RECOMMENDTION No. 1 Postpone City Council's hearing on Legacy Square for at least one month to allow French Park time to prepare a more detailed response. 2. Traffic Impacts The MND states the project will increase neighborhood traffic only incrementally, and that no mitigation is required for project's traffic movement through our neighborhood. French Park is indeed concerned about even incremental traffic increases. French Park is located directly between the Santa Ana Downtown and the Santa Ana (Interstate 5) Freeway. Like its neighbor to the north, the French Court Neighborhood, French Park experiences high volumes of traffic in the mornings and afternoons, particularly on Washington, French, and Spurgeon Streets and also on Wellington, 91h, 10`h and Lacy Streets. Currently there are no operating traffic mitigation measures implemented for French Park. Nor are any mitigation measures planned. Devices such as exit -only barriers, which limit access into a neighborhood, and signage directing drivers around French Park, or an array of other, and potentially useful traffic calming measures should have been considered by the Project to limit cut -though vehicle traffic through French Park. As with other new development projects which adjoin or are near French Park, Legacy Square offers no traffic mitigation, except to encourage Legacy Square residents to take public transposition or walk. This is unacceptable. French Park is aware that other residential neighborhoods, very similar to French Park, enjoy robust traffic mitigations. These protected neighborhoods include Floral Park, Wilshire Square and Washington Square, and perhaps others. These several neighborhoods have exit -only egress from their neighborhoods to prevent or reduce cut -through. Given French Parks' location between the Downtown and the Santa Ana Freeway, we question why mitigations are not required for this high-density apartment project. French Park was not contacted prior to the launch of the project, or contacted as part of its outreach. As such the MND, nor its companion documents, identify resident concerns or comments regarding Legacy Square traffic. The MND appears to lack key resident information about safety and other traffic issues. The MND also fails to consider any physical mitigation measures to limit or discourage vehicle traffic from the Project entering French Park, French Park is already heavily disturbed by excessive vehicle traffic on Washington Street with traffic movement failing at several north -south streets which intersect it including Bush, Spurgeon and French. To encourage more traffic from the Legacy Square project into the neighborhood creates an undue burden as drivers struggle to the Freeway. RECOMMENDATION No. 2 Applicant(s) to conduct public meetings with French Park to discuss Legate Sgaure and collect their concerns and comments.