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macys June 18, 2019 City Council (eCom ent .santa-sna.ara) 20 Civic Center Plaza Santa Ana, CA 92701 Minh Thai mthal santa-ana.ara) Executive Director of Planning & Building City of Santa Ana 20 Civic Center Plaza Santa Ana, CA 92701 RE: Macy's Comment on MalnPlace Mail Project -Agenda Items 11A and 11B Dear Councilmembers and Mr. Thai: Macy's West Stores, Inc. ("Macy's") submits these comments for tonight's hearing regarding the MalnPlace Mail Transformation Project. That project site encompasses real property owned by Macy's and improved with a Macy's department store located at 2850 North Main Street Santa Ana, CA 92705, Macy's consent will be required before the MainPiace project can be implemented, pursuant to Macy's certain approval rights under the governing reciprocal easement agreement, as amended and supplemented and other instruments and agreements affecting the Macy's property and governing the operation of the MainPiace Mali. The reciprocal easement agreement and related agreements will need to be modified before the proposed development can proceed. The Macy's team has been working with the project applicant on an acceptable plan and previously requested that the applicant not seek any City Council approvals until our concerns about the project were addressed, inclusive of without limitation, the major arterial proposed along the Macy's store frontage. Our concerns have not been addressed and we were surprised to learn just now that the project was submitted to the City Council at its June 4, 2019 meeting for initial approvals, and for adoption of ordinances approving a Specific Plan and a Development Agreement tonight. Because the arterial issues and other concerns have not been resolved, Macy's objects to the MainPiace project. Our objection extends to all proposed approvals and to the review of environmental impacts. We believe there has not been adequate evaluation of all the ramifications and impacts of siting a major arterial directly in front of our store, including impacts related to transportation, air quality, greenhouse gas emissions, impediments to pedestrian access to our store, and changes to the original project and in surrounding circumstances since the EIR was certified In 1988. We also request that special notice of any approvals, enactments, applications, permits, proceedings, and notices (including CEQA notices) relating to the MainPiace Mall Transformation Project be provided to the following, preferably by email: 196671541 7 West Seventh Street, Cincinnati, OH 45202