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Rebuttal to Developers View on Sunshine Meeting Sunshine Meeting Report ‐ Neighborhood Rebuttal‐Table View Page 8 of 14 2018‐11‐13 Traffic and Parking: COMMENT QUESTION REPORTED TO DEVELOPER DEVELOPER RESPONSE: NEIGHBORHOOD RESPONSE: 1. Where are the 900 cars? There will be a parking structure that the buildings are wrapped around. The center of the site will contain a 7‐level parking structure; the residences will be constructed around the garage, allowing residents to park on the same level as their home. This type of development is both ideal for the residents and screens and screens the parking structure from surrounding area views. Proposal was for an 8‐story parking structure. Are they already reducing the onsite parking? 2. Streets aren’t wide enough to accommodate apartments. We will work with our traffic engineers, architects and City staff to make the egress away from Park Santiago community and towards Main Street. You can’t fit a round peg into a square hole. This will be interesting. 3. Cowan Heights residents cut through our streets already. We believe you have a wonderful community and we will look into any means to mitigate this and any existing nuisance. It occurs now, what will be different except the increased volume? 4. Nearby Apartments are not full and traffic is already miserable. Santa Ana is among the worst cities in terms of housing shortages in the nation, in fact, Santa Ana’s housing share of the housing stock in 2000 was 34% of the housing in the vicinity (including Santa Ana, Costa Mesa, Newport Beach, Irvine, Tustin); however, by 2015 Santa Ana’s share was down to 27%. As noted above, Santa Ana vacancy rate is less than 3%, it is virtually impossible to have a lower vacancy rate; it is clearly indicative of a housing under‐supply. There have been countless studies and articles over the last 3.5 years documenting Orange County’s housing shortage, resulting in folks paying far too much for housing, increasing traffic, increasing pollution, and destroying the quality of life (because people end up spending hours a day in their cars commuting). If Orange County’s housing shortage is not solved, it will drive out workers and drag down the region’s robust economy. Without more places for workers to live, more 20 and 30‐somethings will leave and business will struggle to recruit high quality employees. Does not even address the traffic issue. The applicant makes the point that Santa Ana is one of the most overcrowded/dense cities in terms of people to housing ratios. This is our point as well, Santa Ana does not need more housing, it needs more jobs and places for high quality jobs 5. Need to account for all the future apartments in Santa Ana and Orange in area in traffic analysis. The traffic study area is extensive and will address the appropriate area as determined by City staff and will analyze up to 2040 traffic. We don’t need a study. Just sit on the corner of Main And Edgewood any weekday morning or evening and you can see the serious problems that currently exist. 6. Need to assume 2 persons per apartment, this is Santa Ana, there won’t be 1 person in an apartment. We have taken into account data from apartment communities in determining the quantity of parking that is necessary to operate an organized and quality community. Data does not equate to reality. Even millennials need cars.
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