CORRESPONDENCE - 75E (IN OPPOSITION)

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Orozco, Norma From: darcie cancino < Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2019 12:54 PM To: eComment Subject: City Council Meeting of FebruarCity Council Meeting of February 5, 2019 - Agenda Item 75E, Development of 2525 N. Main St. Mayor Pulido and Members of the City Council, please see my comments on the Staff Report for item 75E on the City Council Agenda for February 5, 2019. Let me begin by stating my strong opposition to the development proposed at 2525 N. Main Street, now referred to as "The Addington." This project is too large, too dense, and entirely incompatible with the immediately adjacent neighborhood comprised solely of single family homes. At the Planning Commission meeting on January 14, 2019, the Development Agreement and other requests were overwhelmingly denied. The commissioners wisely acknowledged the irreparable harm this mammoth development would cause to the Park Santiago neighborhood and to the City. I would also like to note that the assessment of public input quantifies that the vast majority of comments, both oral and written, are in opposition to this development. It is only at the November 26, 2018 Planning Commission meeting that "supporters" of the project began to attend the meetings, and these "supporters" would rarely provide their full names, nor would they indicate their address. I have doubts about their true stake in the well-being of Santa Ana or their real interest in the proposed project. I have some specific comments on the Staff Report. I will refer to them by page number for ease of reference. Page 75E-108 Statement of Overriding Considerations indicates that the 55 -year neighborhood "benefits package" is subject to annual review. This means that at year one, the benefits can be removed. Throughout this section, the neighborhood association is incorrectly referred to as Santiago Park Neighborhood Association." This renders any agreement null. The "traffic calming" measures can be decided by the developer, who may decide not to do anything. The Development Agreement allows for Park Santiago residents "limited access" to The Addington's on-site amenities, also subject to annual review. Page 75E168 Park Santiago Patrol Area Map is utterly illegible and meaningless. • Page 75E-224, in the summary of Sunshine Meeting Comments, item 8, the developer acknowledges that the location is incompatible with single family residences due to its immediate proximity to the freeway, so it logically follows that multi -family dwellings would also be inappropriate. • Page 75E-225, in the summary of Sunshine Meeting Comments, item 15, the developer definitively states that they plan to sell the units as condominiums, thus the community "benefits" promised in the Development Agreement would become worthless upon conversion unless renegotiated, which the new buyers would be under no obligation to do. • Page 75E-280 Public Comments/Community Meetings, states that "The applicant shared a revised plan that included ... the removal of the parking structure access from Edgewood Road..." This is inaccurate, as the access is still included in the project plan as Option C. (See page 75E-44) • Page 75E-283 Table 7 Project Height Compared to Approved Apartment Projects, none of the approved projects in the table are of the height and scale of Addington, nor are they immediately adjacent to single-family homes. Further the Bulk/Scale indicates the project is tiered from two stories for the buildings closest to the homes on Edgewood. This is not the case entirely as there is one five - story building on the northeast edge that faces towards the homes on Spurgeon! The Shade/Shadow impact created by the project would result in a change to the shading of the 15