CORRESPONDENCE - 75E (IN OPPOSITION)

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Orozco, Norma From: Bill B < Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2019 12:15 PM To: City Council; eComment Subject: Please Vote to Opposive the 2525 Main St. Residential Project Dear Mayor Pulido and City Council Members, As a 15 year resident of Santa Ana and 8 years as an Executive Board Member of the Park Santiago Neighborhood Association, one of only a few 501 (C)(3) neighborhood associations in Santa Ana, I am very proud to live in your City. However, their is currently a Development Application for 2525 N Main that will be incredibly bad for Santa Ana, as the traffic impacts and congestion created by the proposed High Density 476 unit Apartment Complex will have huge Negative impacts to residents and visitors to, our crown jewel, the Santa Ana Main Place Mall. Residents from north Santa Ana will be providing the City Council members this week, with over 1,000 signed petitions Opposing the 2525 Main Residential Development and several hundred signed letters to the Council Opposing the 2525 Main St Residential Development The area immediately around 2525 Main St. already has over 2,500 Apartment Units scheduled to be developed in the next 2 years. In the past year, several hundred Apartments Units have already been developed within only 1/3 mile of 2525 Main St. Traffic is already gridlocked during many times of the day on Main St and Edgewood Rd, the exact location of the proposed 2525 Main St. Residential Project. Further the Main Place Mall Transformation Project, which is NOT included in the EIR for 2525 Main St., because the Main Place Mall's redevelopment application was received AFTER the 2525 Main St. EIR inclusion deadline, is scheduled to develop an additional: A. 1,900 Apartment Units B. 400 Hotel rooms C. 1,400,000 square ft of new commercial / retail development D. 750,000 square ft of new office building development With all this development, its critical to develop Santa Ana responsibly and in a manner that are streets can handle the increased traffic. Our residents of north Santa Ana Support the redevelopment of Main Place Mall and for Apartments of much less density than the proposed 2525 Main St Residential Project. Apartments of 30 Units per acre, not directly abutting single family homes and not right up against our highest congested intersections, makes sense in the north Santa Ana. North Santa Ana Residents support Responsible Development of Santa Ana. We want new development in Santa Ana, but we want it done Responsibly. However, the 2525 Main St, Residential Development is proposing over a 100% increase in apartments per acre, than anywhere else in the entire City of Santa Ana, abutting single family homes. 2525 Main St is proposing 80 Apartments per acre, where the most anywhere else in the City, abutting R1, is 40 Apartments per acre. Simply put: The proposed 476 Apartments is simply too Large and too Dense, to be a good for Santa Ana. The traffic at that location is already very bad and often times dangerous, due to its proximity to the ingress and egress ramps of the 5 freeway.