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Diane Furtado Fradkin Santa Ana, CA 92706 May 9, 2019 Honorable Planning Commission City of Santa Ana PO Box 1988 Santa Ana, CA 92702 RE: MainPlace Mall Transformation Project Dear Chairman and Commissioners: This MainPlace Mall revitalization is a key to the sustainability of the City of Santa Ana and for that, I am grateful for Cenntenial Development investing in our City. We all recognize that most malls need to change with the times and therefore, this will be an exciting project to unfold. That being said, I have a few specific comments to make regarding the overall MainPlace Mall Project….. 1) Density/Traffic - Given the proposed additional uses such as multi-family residential, hotel, retail and office space, this is going to be a very dense and intense project beginning with the implementation of Phase 1 and continuing through Phases 2 and 3. This will add traffic trips to an already congested Main Street, 5 & 22 freeway on/off ramps and other nearby surface streets, particularly given the many multi-family units approved within a quarter mile of MainPlace Mall in both the Cities of Santa Ana and Orange. • Mitigation Plan – A potential idea to help offset the traffic issue due to the increase of density and uses at MainPlace Mall would be to add an electric Trolley Bus (just like the ones used in Laguna Beach in the summer) which would service the Main Street corridor in order to help mitigate the additional traffic driven by the re-purposing and build out of the Mall transformation project. It may be ideal to have the Trolley Bus run from the Santa Ana Train Station to DTSA and along Main Street, around the Mall and over to the Orange Circle. From a funding standpoint, OCTA could help the City of Santa Ana and perhaps include funding also from the City of Orange and of