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Street, Superior on 17th or Target which has the basic food but not a full market. To many major constraints to travel all the way down Main Street to Chapman and go to Ralphs. Too many lights and hospital/doctor offices traffic. Just imagine the traffic on a daily basis through Park Santiago. In addition we have heard that the old building on Grand and 17th is being remodeled and will be opening up as Wal-Mart and refurbish the whole center which would increase the traffic in our community. Obviously there would be residents coming from the surrounding community that will take a "shortcut" to the Wal-Mart Shopping center through our Park Santiago community. The traffic on Lincoln Avenue would increase since many of the residents will use this as a short cut to go to work etc. Who wouldn't want to bypass all the traffic on Main Street and 17th? it is a nightmare! Also within a short period of time the new residents will learn about the surrounding area and frequent places such as McDonalds, IHOP, Target, Walgreens, Starbucks, Big Lots, Hobby Lobby, Ace Hardware, car wash, cleaners etc. and how will they get there... travel through Park Santiago and return the same way. The traffic on 17th Street is quite busy during the rush hour. Physician Offices: There are many medical offices on 17th Street, Tustin Avenue and 4th Street. The most convenient way would be to travel through the Park Santiago community. Of course a person could travel down Memory Lane to the 22 Freeway and exit on Tustin but on the return trip a high percentage of the residents would choose to go through Park Santiago on Santa Clara Avenue to Bush then turn left on Edgewood then right on Main Street to return home. When the 5 Freeway going North is congested the residents will use the 17th street exit to save time and travel through Park Santiago on Santiago/Edgewood to go home instead of using the Main Street exit. We already have enough traffic there due to the extra parking along side of Guarantee Chevrolet from the residents that live in apartments on 17th Street and the freeway exit. It is just too much for our community to handle. We already have many cars traveling south on Main and the driver gets confused about where to enter the 5 freeway so they make a mistake and turn left off of Main Street onto Edgewood and try to figure out what happened. Of course they are in a hurry and sometimes this create lots of congestion just trying to turn around. We have seen where this has created an unsafe driving situation. Also the residents traveling south on Main will be doing U-turns at the Edgewood left turn signal to enter the complex going north on Main. The left hand turn lane is short and only has room for a few cars. The traffic on Main South will be ridiculous which will make many of the residents go around to Grand Avenue and Santa Clara Avenue and come through Park Santiago. We know this will happen because we as home owners do this to save time ourselves. What about Hoover School? Obviously the new residents will include children and they will be either walk or be dropped off at school adding more traffic by the school. We already have school buses and additional traffic for child pick up since part of the students are bused in from other areas. Make note: We do not want to see a traffic signal at Santiago and Santa Clara like there is at the railroad tracks on Lincoln and Santa Clara.