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From:Allen Moon <br />To:eComment; Castro-Cardenas, Julie; Penaloza, David <br />Subject:Fwd: 200 N. Main Street - Application No. 2018-18 <br />Date:Thursday, April 04, 2019 1:40:51 PM <br />Dear Historical Commission, Julie, and Councilmember Penaloza, <br />As an owner and Board Member of the Santa Ana Lofts, I am writing to echo Yvonne Flores' <br />comments below. As you well know, due to the design of the building, parking is scarce for <br />us in the Santa Ana Lofts. We have managed our way through the situation for the past 8 <br />years and I encourage you to receive Yvonne's comments below regarding access, cleanliness <br />and safety to craft a solution that works for all parties. <br />We welcome Swinerton to the neighborhood - it's fantastic such a large group will be amongst <br />us. But, we just want to make sure our residents have access to parking and safety. <br />Thank you, <br />Allen Moon <br />Dear Historical Commission, <br />As a Board Member for Downtown Inc., a resident, and business owner of Santa Ana, I am <br />truly proud of the Downtown area and all that it offers to businesses, residents, and guests <br />alike and I'm so happy to know that Swinerton is moving their offices to Santa Ana as it shows <br />that our Downtown area is growing and changing in order to attract such large companies as <br />Swinerton to the area. I'm especially thrilled they are moving from Irvine to Santa Ana - that's <br />a true win for Santa Ana and for us all. I want to personally welcome Swinerton to the area <br />and as neighbors, because that's what we are, we are both business and residential neighbors <br />now. <br />Swinerton is a huge company and I anticipate upwards of 60 employees will be working at this <br />site, and with that understanding, I have several concerns as to the lot that is granted in <br />perpetuity to both the Builders Exchange Building and the Santa Ana Lofts as the right of <br />easement. I would like to gently ask that Swinerton take extra measures to ensure the parking <br />lot is regularly cleaned as we have new problems now that they are the owners and the parking <br />lot is left unattended and people have been partying at all hours of the night in the parking lot. <br />I know this is a temporary problem, but it is a problem with broken glass, and other <br />undesirable items being discarded in the parking area because it is being left unattended. <br />I own, work, and live in the my loft located at and <br />am concerned that we will lose our parking adjacent to our building as each of the 16 units <br />here in the Santa Ana Lofts have regularly used the curbside parking for the past 8 to 9 years <br />and should be 'grand-fathered into these plans." I had read in the CUP that the builder of the <br />Santa Ana Lofts was to provide 1.5 parking spaces for every 1 (one) bedroom built in the <br />Santa Ana Lofts and if we lost access to this parking, the Santa Ana Lofts would not meet the <br />CUP set forth by the city. I noticed the Swinerton renderings do not accurately reflect the use <br />of parking at this curb and do not show parked cars at all in the rendering and this concerns