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Santa Ana City Council 20 Civic Center Plaza P.O. Box 1988, M31 Santa Ana, CA 92701 Received at City Council Meeting 2/19/2019 February 10, 2019 Subject: 2525 North Main Street (Proposed Addington Apartment Complex) In America, nothing can be said to be certain, except death, taxes, and apartments killing neighboring property values, especially large ones that block the sum and bring noise and traffic and transients who park on our streets of single family homes. We've known this truth for almost a century now. The United States Supreme Court's opinion in Village of Euclid v. Ambler Realty in 1926, a case regarding the legality of zoning, went out of it's way to call out the effect apartments have on single family areas: "With particular reference to apartment houses, it is pointed out that the development of detached house sections is greatly retarded by the coming of apartment houses, which has sometimes resulted in destroying the entire section for private house purposes; that, in such sections, very often the apartment house is a mere parasite, constructed in order to take advantage of the open spaces and attractive surroundings created by the residential character of the district. Moreover the coming of one apartment house is followed by others, interfering by their height and bulls with the free circulation of air and monopolizing the rays of the sun, which otherwise would fall upon the smaller homes, and bringing, as their necessary accompaniments, the disturbing noises incident to increased traffic and business, and the occupation, by means of moving and parked automobiles, of larger portions of the streets, thus detracting from their safety and depriving children of the privilege of quiet and open spaces for play, enjoyed by those in more favored localities - - until finally, the residential character of the neighborhood and its desirability as a place of detached residences are utterly destroyed. Under these circumstances, apartment houses, which in a different environment would be not only entirely unobjectionable but highly desirable, but in this case it comes very near to being a massive nuisance." So, my question to the Santa Ana City Council is: What are the actual advantages of a massively large apartment complex of Seven Stories, over constructed, and squeezed onto a 5 acre parcel of land that is currently zoned for business. Santa Ana, as with every other city, needs more jobs and the 2525 property could provide for those needed jobs by utilizing this property for its intended purpose - Business.