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P( Lopez, Kenia From: Barraza, Eric Sent: Friday, August 23, 2019 1:08 PM To: Subject: RE: 2525 Main Hello Tara, On behalf of the City Manager and City Council, thank you for sharing your comments with the City. They have been forwarded to the City Council for their review and consideration. For future reference, feel free to send public comments related to items on the agenda directly to eComment@santa- ana.org. Should you have any questions, feel free to contact me directly. Best Regards, Eric Barraza City Manager's Office 120 Civic Center Plaza I Santa Ana, CA 92701 (714)640-97881 ebarraza5@santa-ana.org From: Tara Franklin [ Sent: Thursday, August 22, 2019 1:20 PM To: Pulido, Miguel <MPulido@santa-ana.org> Subject: 2525 Main It saddens me to think that my neighborhood of eleven years is planning to be ruined by the planned development of an apartment building. On average renters now have 3 cars, so that would put one on the street. The Discovery science center is using a lot now as overflow parking. What will happen once this apt. building is built. It will add too many people and cars for our streets. If the office building is rebuilt under current zoning people will go to work with their one car and leave with that car. The times of traffic flow from an office building will not coincide with the times traffic is created by the neighborhood. Rebuilding the office was the developers plan B and the majority of us supported it at his meeting. When asked why he wasn't building the redesigned office building in his slide show he said it wasn't as profitable for him. Really?? An apartment building And all its cars parked on the street will ruin the aesthetic and historical integrity of our quiet neighborhood full of vintage houses with picket fenced yards. It simply doesn't fit! City of Santa Ana please support our historic districts and support our historic homes. I see other historic neighborhoods in which Grand Victorian mansions have been chopped up into apartments. This happens because nobody wants to live next to an apartment building (all the cars on the street and extra traffic) and so they turn their house into an apartment building. If you don't care enough to preserve the historic integrity of our neighborhood by protecting us against such out of place developments, How can l=�