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Received at City Council <br />Meeting 2/19/2019 <br />VOTE NO ON 2525 REZONING AND APARTMENTS! <br />Art Mendelsohn <br />12:00 PM (52 <br />minutes ago) <br />to vsarmiento@santa-ana.org, mpulido@santa-ana.org, dpenaloza@santa- <br />ana.org, ,JSolorio@santa-ana.org, rreyna@santa-ana.org, jvillegas@santa- <br />ana.org, ciglesias@sarita-ana.org, me <br />Mr Mayor and City Council Members, <br />I am asking you to vote NO on the proposed rezoning and apartment construction at 2525 N <br />Main St tonight at the City Council meeting. It is your civic duty to stop monstrosity's like this <br />project. PLEASE VOTE NO! <br />But 1 must add how saddened and disillusioned I am at how the discussion has been played out <br />at the Planning Commission meeting and the first City Council meeting on this project. It <br />apparently is acceptable, and maybe even encouraged, for the developer to openly pay people <br />to come in and read prepared scripts, to agree to quid -pro -quo arrangements with union <br />members over promises of future work, to crowd the City Council meeting with people that <br />have no stake in Santa Ana, or the outcome of this vote, and leave the residents of Park <br />Santiago standing outside in the rain and cold. This developer has openly attempted to bribe <br />Park Santiago residents to buy their cooperation. This developer has paid for research and <br />development of biased reports that have been used in the attempt to make this project sound <br />like a good idea. This developer has accused the Park Santiago residents of being racist, when in <br />fact the neighborhood is almost half Hispanic. And this developer is currently being investigated <br />for possibly bribing a member of the Planning Commission, and possibly other elected City <br />officials, for their vote. This developer is exactly the kind of Business that Santa Ana <br />should NOT be involved with. <br />The people voicing their support for this development are doing so because they're being paid <br />to do so or will have jobs waiting if the project goes through. The residents of Park Santiago are <br />voicing their strong disapproval of this project because we live here, have a strong sense of <br />community and know that rezoning is the WRONG development for this property. We <br />understand that the property will be developed. Please do not vote to rezone this parcel! I <br />Do the right thing and VOTE NO tonight. <br />Art Mendelsohn <br /> <br />