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Received at City Council <br />February 10, 2019 Meeting 2/19/2019 <br />RE: Proposed 2525 Apartment Building <br />Dear Mayor Pulido & City Council, <br />I was at the City Council meeting on the 9" of February, as well as all the Planning Commission <br />meetings and PSNA neighborhood meetings prior. I believe you knew there would be a big <br />turnout for the 2/9 meeting, yet you did nothing to make room for all of us. You could have <br />held this portion of the meeting somewhere else on a different day. I was one of the ones <br />standing in the freezing cold for 2 e hours, then another 3 hours inside listening to all the <br />people who were paid by the developers to speak. OMG... and we had to listen for an hour to the <br />developers slide show & video AGAIN, full of lies and deceit. And you never stopped them, or <br />you never gave them a timeframe... what's up with that? Here are my thoughts: <br />1. PSNA should get an HOUR to share with you why we dont want this monstrosity <br />here and why it's an inapprORriate place to put it. I PROPOSE DALE HELVIG & BILL <br />BONNETT TO SPEAK ON BEHALF OF P5NA FOR AT LEAST THE SAME AMOUNT <br />OF TIME THE DEVELOPERS GOT, and then let all of us speak our 2 minutes also. <br />You are being totally unfair by letting the developers present and have people come <br />in from all over So.Cal to spSak their pgace and pot givigg us the same courtesy. <br />2. We at PSNA could also bring in many, many friends, neighbors & relatives to speak on our <br />behalf that have no direct impact on this site, but we consider your time valuable and <br />have only asked neighbors to show up for support. However, if that's what you'd like us <br />to do... bring on many, many hundreds of people to say they opposed this project, because <br />we can if you'd like. We are sick of all the paid -off groups of people saying yes for this <br />project that live in Irvine, San Clemente, Los Angeles, Anaheim, Garden Grove ... etc... They <br />have NO DIRECT IMPACT ON THIS PROJECT AND WHAT IT WILL DO TO OUR <br />NEIGHBORHOOD AND ALL THE FALLOUT FROM THIS PROJECT. <br />3. The developers have lied to us from the beginning. Trying to push this through without <br />us even knowing about it. We have had to fight every step of the way. As one of our <br />neighbors, who live on Spurgeon Street, testified at a Planning Commission meeting,... the <br />developers were walking and talking to each of the homeowners on Spurgeon Street about <br />voting yes for their project. He noted they visited him 5 or 6 times. They were offering <br />new fences, new roof to their homes, new back yards, new paint jobs... anything to get the <br />neighbors to attend this meeting and vote yes. So, when you get a few 'yeses' from <br />PSNA... they are probably the ones who got paid off by the developers. <br />4. Parking. A city council years ago said yes to Villa Clara apartments on the east end of <br />PSNA... and they said there would be enough parking... well, guess what,... there isn't and <br />as a result there are cars parked up the north side of Santa Clara to the railroad tracks <br />,,00 <br />