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Orozco, Norma <br />From: <br />Houston, Nicole <br />Sent: <br />Wednesday, February 13, 2019 8:41 AM <br />To: <br />eComment <br />Subject: <br />FW: 2525 Main <br />Kind Regards, <br />Nicole Houston I Executive Assistant <br />City Manager's Office I 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: Tara Franklin [ <br />Sent: Tuesday, February 12, 2019 10:38 PM <br />To: Pulido, Miguel <MPulido@santa-ana.org>; Penaloza, David <DPena loza@santa-ana.org>; Solorio, Jose <br /><JSolorio@santa-ana.org>; Reyna, Roman <RReyna@santa-ana.org>; Villegas, Juan <JVillegas@santa-ana.org>; Iglesias, <br />Cecilia <Clglesias@santa-ana.org> <br />Subject: 2525 Main <br />Hello, <br />My husband and I have lived in Park Santiago for 10 years and are proud to call ourselves residents of Santa Ana. Part <br />of why we love living here is that is it a historic neighborhood, where every house is unique and different. I grew up in <br />Orange County in track homes (with HOAs) where the goal was uniformity. That was not for us. I love living here in my <br />historic home, it is a gem to find a place like this in the OC! <br />It is ironic that the developer silenced the historic resource commission (which would have voted against rezoning) and <br />then offer to pay the historic district fee. Our neighborhood is historic and I hope one day will be designated so. <br />Don't be on the wrong side of history and place this high density boxy eyesore in a historic district. Please do not <br />rezone the property. It is likely that neighbors near this apt building will chop up and rent out their homes. Not <br />maintaining them with the same care as before. <br />I am sure you are sick of hearing about traffic, but it's true it will add to traffic, on already too narrow and old streets. <br />Remember when the developer started out saying that it would make traffic better? What a laugh! This was at the <br />planning commission meeting, since they never really presented the EIR data to our neighborhood—no projector, chairs, <br />or microphones were working. The traffic analysis skewing the data to be within a 24 hr period, instead of looking at <br />rush hour. I look forward to the developer rebuilding the office building under current zoning, because it is more <br />complementary to a residential neighborhood and Main Street. Cars will come to the office building in the morning <br />while cars are leaving from the neighborhood. A high quality office building just makes more sense. The developer even <br />said this was their plan B. We need more businesses and long term jobs in Santa Ana. Imagine if we had a tech developer <br />move here. All of those contractors, that are supporting the developer's rezoning plan, will likely be hired to rebuild the <br />office building, under current zoning as well. <br />The proposed rezoning of 2525 Main is a bad plan! The streets we live on are narrow, old and uneven. The sewers <br />under those streets are old too. A few years from now the city will have to pay for those repairs. An apartment building <br />with more toilets flushing, more cars, more people calling the police, more kids in the schools, will cost the city more. <br />Please don't sell our city out for a quick pay day. It will cost Santa Ana more than an office building would in the long <br />run. <br />I will leave you with a quote from Kenneth Nguyen planning commissioner "I did not get into politics to go against a <br />neighborhood of people". <br />\A\ <br />