CORRESPONDENCE - 75E (IN OPPOSITION)

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Orozco, Norma From: Kelly Medina < Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2019 1:05 PM To: eComment Subject: Fw: 2525 N Main St. On Tuesday, February 5,2019,12:55 PM, Kelly Medina < wrote: Honorable Mayor and Councilmembers: I understand that tonight, Feb. 5, 2019, the 2525 N Main St. Residential Development may be on the agenda and that there could very likely be a vote on whether to allow the construction of a 480 -unit, high density apartment complex. I am asking that the Council vote NO and reject putting such a structure adjacent to the single story homes there. Even in childhood I admired Park Santiago and when I first moved out on my own, I rented a garage apartment on Valencia. In 1997, after looking for homes all around Santa Ana, Orange and North Tustin, my husband and I chose to buy a home on French St. and reared our children here. In 2012, we had a great opportunity to move to North Tustin, but opted to stay in Park Santiago because we love the great sense of community here. The place is truly unique. People who visit us always marvel at how how beautiful our neighborhood is. It's a tribute to Santa Ana! I think that any zoning change to 2525 N Main ought to be to either allow single family homes, perhaps mixed in with a few, 2-3 story condominiums directly backed up to Main St. What the developer presently wants to build there does not fit the character of the neighborhood, and would degrade the present quality of it. The traffic on Main is already congested. In order to drive the 1.4 miles North to St. Joseph Hospital from there, you must encounter about 8 traffic lights. If people headed North out of that proposed project, but needed to go South, they would need to make a U-turn at Walkie Way. Even now, that is one thing that stops up northbound traffic because it makes the light turn red for all northbound traffic, including those just coming off the freeway. Pedestrian traffic will also increase if this project is built and will negatively affect all that northbound traffic since the Walkie Way light turns red whenever pedestrians cross Main St. This already occurs when people are heading to the Science Museum there. It stops up Northbound traffic not only at Walkie Way, but Main Street, Edgewood Rd., AND the North I-5 offramp. These are all located just 500ft. to the south of there. Imagine how that congestion will be exacerbated when the Main Place re -do is complete (I know it is not yet approved, but it Is actually ALREADY zoned for multifamily housing, and is in the present landowner's stated plans for construction). This is not to mention the multiple -family housing that is already going in at the City of Orange on Town and Country/Main/Lawson 1W