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Orozco, Norma <br />From: <br />Houston, Nicole <br />Sent: <br />Monday, February 11, 2019 8:27 AM <br />To: <br />eComment <br />Subject: <br />FW: Please vote no on 2525 Main Street Project <br />Kind Regards, <br />Nicole Houston I Executive Assistant <br />City Manager's Offices nhouston@santa-ana.org <br />714.647.5200 120 Civic Center Plaza I Santa Ana, CA 92701 <br />This email and any files or attachments transmitted with it may contain privileged or otherwise confidential information. <br />If you are not the intended recipient, or believe that you may have received this communication in error, please advise <br />the sender via reply email and immediately delete the email you received. <br />-----Original Message ----- <br />From: Rhonda Mojica [ <br />Sent: Sunday, February 10, 2019 6:35 PM <br />To: Pulido, Miguel <MPulido@santa-ana.org>; Sarmiento, Vicente <VSarmiento@santa-ana.org>; Penaloza, David <br /><DPenaloza@santa-ana.org>; Solorio, Jose <JSolorio@santa-ana.org>; Reyna, Roman <RReyna@santa-ana.org>; <br />Villegas, Juan <JVillegas@santa-ana.org>; Iglesias, Cecilia <Clglesias@santa-ana.org> <br />Subject: Please vote no on 2525 Main Street Project <br />Dear Mr Mayor and City Council Representatives <br />My name is Rhonda Wood Mojica and I live in the Park Santiago community on Avalon. Although I live several blocks <br />away, I am concerned for the impacts to the front door of our neighborhood. I was in attendance at the Feb 5th meeting <br />where you were considering the vote for the apartment complex project on 2525 Main St. I spoke briefly asking that you <br />vote against this project. I am not against development and I'm not against building something good in this space, but it <br />needs to be the right thing for the community which includes my long-standing neighbors that live up and down <br />Edgewood and Spurgeon who will be devastatingly impacted by this proposal. <br />Just based on your Planning Commision's recommendations to vote no, I would hope you would defer to their input as <br />they are trained to develop projects that are sustainable and improve our community. It's rather odd to me that the <br />"staff' was paid to evaluate the same thing when it wasn't clear they have the qualifications. <br />The traffic situation at that traffic light is already a nightmare. The Staff did not thoroughly examine the impact access to <br />the apartment complex would have via U-turns and flipping around on Edgewood and Spurgeon as so many do now <br />when they realize they aren't getting on the freeway. If you have ever tried turning at this traffic stop, I'm sure you have <br />seen the near misses of crazy drivers. Adding more to this would be dangerous. If anything, I hope our city looks to <br />address the issue as it stands. <br />As for the other supporters of this project, I am a former member of the Union that came out in force the other night. As <br />it was stated by the Union Treasurer, they seek to benefit by this project based on a promise by the developers. I would <br />hope the right future project looks for local Union help, so to me their tactic was just playing on your decision that they <br />say will deeply impact our local city construction workers if you don't vote yes. <br />The students who came looking for housing make me even more nervous that this is the wrong project. I have <br />experience with how students seek offsite housing, get more than the recommended occupancy to rent these <br />