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Dale Helvig <br /> <br /> <br />OTHER AREAS OF CONCERN <br />1. DISCOVERY SCIENCE CENTER. The Discovery Science Center serves about 525,000 visitors a year <br />and hopes to grow annual attendance to 1 million. We should be doing so much more to support <br />the Discovery Science Foundation. The future is in the children's hands and the Discovery Science <br />Foundation does a tremendous amount of good in this area. The City of Santa Ana needs to assist <br />them in anyway they can. <br />2. PARKING. Specific Development zoning means the city can bypass certain municipal codes to <br />accommodate development, it does not mean that it must. The Santa Ana Municipal Code <br />(SAMC) requires 1420 parking spots, the applicant wants 904 spaces and the staff <br />recommendation is for 2.0 spaces/unit or 952. Tandem parking was NOT in the original proposal, <br />it now has 150 stalls as they continue to squeeze the development. The applicant says 904 is <br />more than enough. I'm sure they said the same thing when seeking entitlements for Prisma. City <br />Place needed to post signs in their parking lot to inform the resident of Prisma of the following: <br />"NO PARKING BYPRISMA RESIDENTS OR GUESTSATANYTIME." These signs were put up prior to <br />Prisma having a 50% occupancy rate. This is what we can expect if we don't follow the SAMC. <br />3. PARKING STRUCTURE. The 9 -level parking structure will extend 2 -levels above the residential <br />building. <br />4. SUNSHINE MEETING SIGN -IN SHEETS. Staff report indicate 263 people attended. Not everyone <br />was able to sign in since the doors were opened late and only 2 tables were used to get everyone <br />signed -in. Over 450 people attended. Rebuttal is attached. <br />5. OPEN SPACE. Is the project taking open space credit for Juliet style balconies, I can't tell. <br />6. CONDOMINIUMS. Applicant indicates desire to convert project to condominiums and <br />understand this would have to be approved by the City. However, the damage will be done if we <br />allow this project with no further ability to control parking and occupancy. With this is mind it is <br />even more important to understand the effects of an uncontrolled population of people and <br />parking requirements. We need to know the maximum occupancy now. <br />Page 8 of 17 <br />