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May 10, 2019 VIA EMAIL Ali Pezeshkpour, AICP City of Santa Ana Planning and Building Agency, M20 20 Civic Center Plaza Santa Ana, CA 92702 APezeshkpour@santa-ana.org Re: Addendum to the Fashion Square Commercial Center Final Environmental I mpact Report (SCH # 1983021103) for the MainPlace Mall Transformation Project Dear Mr. Pezeshkpour: This law firm represents the Southwest Regional Council of Carpenters (Southwest Carpenters) and submits this letter on the above-referenced project on its behalf. Southwest Carpenters represents 50,000 union carpenters in six states, including in Southern California, and has a strong interest in reducing the environmental impacts of development projects, such as the MainPlace Mall Transformation Project (Project). On May 7, 2019, t he City of Santa Ana (City) has issued a nearly 3,000-page “addendum” to the 1983 Fashion Square Commercial Center Final Environmental Impact Report . The Project, which differs in most aspects from the 1983 project, includes a proposal to construct “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.” Project approvals include: • Creation of a new specific plan; • Adoption of a tentative parcel map to subdivide the Project site into ten parcels; • Amendment to the 1983 Environmental Impact Report ; and • Approval of a development agreement . The City’s Planning Commission is scheduled to consider the Project on May 13, 2019. As of this writing, the Planning Commission agenda has not bee n posted online, and it is unclear whether the Planning Commission intends to consider approval of the Project at this meeting. Southwest Carpenters requests the Planning Commission to continue its consideration of the Project for two or mo re months to allow members o f the public more than six days to digest this 3,000-page document , in addition to the original 1983 EIR and 1996 addendum. The City and