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Mitre -Ramirez, Norma <br />From: <br />C Sornstein < <br />Sent: <br />Tuesday, February 19, 2019 11:22 AM <br />To: <br />eComment <br />Cc: <br />'North Santa Ana Preservation Alliance NSAPA';jazzdog54@gmail.com <br />Subject: <br />Project 2525 Main Street Development <br />City Council Members, <br />I will be able attending the meeting tonight however due to the last meeting, not many of us got into the council <br />chambers or got to speak so I'm sending this email. <br />Please vote "No" on the 2525 Main Street project. This high density development is inappropriate at this location <br />backing up to our historical neighborhood made up of single family dwellings. <br />In addition to the density of the development, there are several other reasons I believe that the Council should reject it: <br />1. This property is zoned as commercial. There has been no discussion or compelling reason put forward as to why <br />it should be rezoned as multi -family. <br />Traffic will be a problem of which our neighborhood will bear the brunt. Traffic exiting onto Main Street from <br />this 495+ apartment complex and where more high density projects are proposed, will exponentially increase <br />the congestion in an already busy Main Street. This will cause apartment residents to drive through our <br />neighborhood attempting to avoid the traffic. We have an elementary school on Santa Clara. This is a potential <br />danger to those students and their families. <br />3. Apartment parking will spill over into our neighborhood too. It's been proposed that parking on our streets will <br />be permit only and homeowners will have to purchase their own parking permits from the city. That's an <br />unacceptable resolution. Our neighborhood should not pay the price for lack of planning on the developers <br />part. The Mother's Market parking lot on Main Street and Memory Lane is already experiencing this dilemma. <br />The developer built a high density apartment complex behind this business corner and did not account for <br />enough cars so residents of that complex are now parking in the Mother's lot. Go see the signs now posted. <br />4. The Planning Commission, your representatives that you appointed, spent many hours reviewing the proposal <br />and listening to comments before turning it down. <br />I'm a resident of Santa Ana for the past 56 years and I love this city. However, I was insulted at the Sunshine meeting <br />when this developer said to the 300+ attendees from our neighborhood, "we needed to get over ourselves" because the <br />project was going ahead whether we liked it or not. They knew something our neighborhood didn't and that was quite <br />disturbing. I urge you to turn down this proposal. <br />Sincerely, <br />Camillia Sornstein <br /> <br /> <br />