CORRESPONDENCE - 75E (GENERAL COMMENTS)

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Dale Helvig January 27, 2019 Mayor Pulido and Santa Ana City Councilmembers City of Santa Ana 20 Civic Center Plaza, 811 Floor Santa Ana CA 92702 Subject: February 5, 2019 City Council Meeting The residents of Santa Ana are deeply concerned over the applicant's desire to seek the approval of several discretionary applications for developing their property. While we aren't opposed to development, we are opposed to the applicant asking for discretionary approvals that would allow them to create something that is supported by few, other than people receiving funds from the applicant and a few citizens of the community. We would like to see the Main Street gateway to Santa Ana pop. One idea is to have Discovery Science Center pedestrian walkway span Main St. like the one connecting the Performing Arts Center to So. Coast Plaza. Changing the General Plan is serious. The Mayor of Laguna Niguel, Elaine Gennawey, put it well when presented with a similar situation: "When you're entering Laguna Niguel, you know you're in Laguna Niguel, and that's by design," Gennawey said. "Changing the general plan should only be done when the change is to the greater benefit of the public. Increasing 35 homes to 60 is almost double the number of homes, I can't approve the change of the general plan because it's not for the greater benefit of the city or its residents." We're not Laguna Niguel, nor are we Los Angeles. We are Santa Ana and proud of it. We don't want McMansion's and we don't want high density or high intensity developments encroaching upon single-family homes like in Los Angeles. The video presentation the applicant showed the Planning Commission at the November 26th and January 14th meeting, and the one they will most likely show you, said they are a locally family owned business. They are not. They both live in Los Angeles with one of the "owners" living in a McMansion in a neighborhood similar to that found in Santa Ana. Page 1 of 17