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SMITH ENGINEERING 6, MANAGEMENT May 30, 2019 Mr. Richard Drury Lozeau Drury 410 12th Street, Suite 250 Oakland, CA 94607 Subject: MainPlace Mall Transformation Project P19027 Dear Mr. Drury: At your request, I have reviewed the Addendum (hereinafter the "Addendum") to the Fashion Square Commercial Center Final Impact Report (SCH 1983021103) (hereinafter the "FEIR") for the MainPlace Mall Transformation Project (the "Project") in the City of Santa Ana (the "City"). My review is specific to the Traffic and Circulation sections of those documents My qualifications to perform this review include registration as a Civil and Traffic Engineer in California and over 50 years professional consulting engineering practice in the traffic and transportation industry. I have both prepared and performed adequacy reviews of numerous transportation and circulation sections of environmental impact reports prepared under the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) including residential and mixed use complexes. My professional resume is attached. Findings of my review are summarized below. Background The City is attempting to approve the proposed Project as an Addendum to an FEIR prepared in 1983. Such addenda are only allowed under CEQA for "minor modifications" to previously approved projects. Substituting 1900 units of mid - rise housing for 750,000 square feet of office use and 131,175 square feet of retail commercial is obviously not a minor modification. From a traffic and circulation perspective, office and retail uses have very different peak period inbound vs. outbound trip patterns compared to residential uses. Office and retail trips tend to originate from and be destined to residential concentrations I'RA I'R1('. 'IRANSPORT A I' ION • NAN.AG EM CNT 5311 Lowry Road, Union Cit , CA 94587 to]: 510.489.9477 tux: 510,4899478