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3�PACIFIC <br />COMPANIES <br />July 19, 2019 <br />Dear City of Santa Ana Councilmembers and Staff, <br />As the First Point development team and owners, we are very disturbed by the events of this <br />week's Council meeting. In the spirit of trying to work through this disruption expeditiously and <br />without costly and time consuming efforts on both of our parts, we are writing to share a few <br />observations that we hope will help to advance our project toward approval of our Density <br />Bonus Agreement. <br />If the City has any reply or suggestions in response to this email, we request to receive it by <br />noon PT on Monday so that we can all move forward with next steps, hopefully in a positive <br />direction for the benefit of the low income families of Santa Ana that we committed to serve. <br />Our writing below is accurate and true to the best of our knowledge. If you have a different <br />understanding of how the City works or how state Density Bonus Law works, we sincerely urge <br />you to share that with us so that we can all coalesce around solutions for our project in the first <br />day or two of next week, before we are forced to de -mobilize on site and start to incur <br />significant, unnecessary losses. <br />From our earliest work on this project, we have consulted with the Council as partners in <br />producing an optimal, high -quality project for Santa Ana. Originally, we planned for a very high <br />density senior project, but at one Council member's urging, we transitioned to a much lower <br />density family project, because of his concern that families were the primary underserved <br />population. Later in the process, we proposed a concession that would allow us to develop the <br />project under density bonus law with a parking ratio of 1.0 per household, which is typical today <br />for urban affordable projects near transportation and employment. We voluntarily proposed a <br />free shuttle service to area transit connections during peak hours to encourage maximum use of <br />transit and reduce the need for families to own, maintain, fuel, and insure more than one car. <br />This time, in response to direct coordination with another Council member who was expressing <br />a concern that families might still need or want to own a second car, we agreed to that Council <br />member's suggestion that we provide a free valet service for those who would want to maintain <br />that 2nd car so much that they were willing to rent an offsite parking space. We edited our <br />parking plan exactly as he suggested and used that for our entitlement application with the <br />Planning Commission. <br />The two requests discussed above were, by far, the two largest requested changes that we <br />incorporated as we partnered with the Council to produce a project that we felt confident we <br />could all be proud of. If this situation becomes protracted and we're forced to proceed into a <br />process wherein all communications (emails, texts, drafts of agreements, meeting/call dates) <br />will be shared in detail, the record will clearly illustrate exactly how those interactions with <br />Council members influenced and refined our proposal into exactly what it is today. <br />Ph: 208.461.0022 // Fax: 209.461.0033 // 430 E. State Street, Ste. 100 // Eagle, 10 83616 // www.tpchousing.com <br />