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no parking on Main Street or La Veta. So where will they park? They will be stretched out for blocks in every direction on our streets in Park Santiago. The Myth of Affordable Housing - At the Planning Commission meeting on January 14th, the developer of the 2525 project had person after person, most of them paid for by the developer and not Santa Ana residents, talk about how Santa Ana need more affordable housing. There is nothing "affordable" about this project. The rents for these units go from $1800.00 per month for a studio apartment to $3800.00 per month for the largest apartment. That's more a month than I pay for my mortgage. There is no way the "students" that spoke at the January 14th Planning Commission meeting in support of "affordable" housing could afford to live there. The Redevelopment of Main Place Mall - With 1,900 residential units, 400 hotel rooms, 1,400,000 total square feet of commercial space, and up to 750,000 square feet of office space proposed for this site just a few hundred yards up Main Street, there is no way the streets in the area can handle the additional traffic of the 2525 Main project. The Main Place development calls for "affordable" units. The 2525 Main project does not. By the way, all of the studies and research presented by the developer at the January 14th Planning Commission did not include the Main Place development in its impact reports. I must say that the City of Santa Ana could not have chosen a worse place for this project. We in the neighborhood understand that the property will be developed. We just ask that the development be within current zoning laws for the area. Also, since when is it acceptable for a developer to brazenly organize and pay people, many who have nothing to do with Santa Ana, to read from scripts of support during Planning Commission or City Council meetings as this developer has done? Why is it OK for this developer to attempt to bribe people in the Park Santiago neighborhood with home repairs and upgrades to secure their cooperation? Why is it OK for members of the planning commission, and possibly the City Council, to vote on this project when certain members are currently under investigation for accepting money from this developer? A sad day for all involved if this project is passed. Therefore I ask that you follow to the "No" vote of the Planning Commission and vote no to this project. NO TO REZONING 2525 N MAIN STREET Art Mendelsohn