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From:Orozco, Norma <br />To:Bernal, Sarah; Fregoso, Vince <br />Cc:Mitre-Ramirez, Norma; Lopez, Kenia <br />Subject:FW: Planning Commission - Archangel Michael Coptic Orthodox Church <br />Date:Monday, September 09, 2019 9:38:37 AM <br />FYI – below is correspondence received for the Planning Commission. Thank You. <br /> <br />From: PamLy <br />Sent: Sunday, September 08, 2019 11:49 PM <br />To: eComment <eComment@santa-ana.org> <br />Subject: Planning Commission - Archangel Michael Coptic Orthodox Church <br /> <br />Hi Sarah, <br /> <br />This is Charlie and Pam Ly and we live on S. Gates Street, which is located in “Little Texas” <br />behind the Archangel Michael Coptic Orthodox Church. Charlie’s father, Chao Ly, also lives across <br />the street from us on S. Gates St. and has been there since 1987. <br /> <br />We are writing to express our concerns with the church’s request to expand their church building <br />and add a parking structure in hopes that the city will NOT allow the church to move forward - again. <br />We have lived her for over 20 years and have seen the disastrous church parking, traffic issues, and <br />monopolization of several homes by the church to gain property for their planned expansion. <br /> <br />We have expressed the same concerns over and over each time the church decides to submit the <br />same plans to expand and have seen little change, if any, made by the church to alleviate these <br />problems. <br /> <br />When the church parking overflows into our neighborhood, which happens quite often, they: <br />· park in front of our mail boxes which prevents us from receiving our mail <br />· leave their trash on our lawns and/or the streets <br />· park in hazardous corners which could cause accidents because the parked cars block <br />the view of the oncoming traffic and/or the parked cars stick out from the curb so bad that it <br />could be hit by another car <br />· make U turns at the intersections of Edinger and Richardson and/or Lilac and Richardson <br />that causes traffic in both directions to have to come to a full stop to wait for the driver to <br />complete the U turn <br /> <br />They claimed they hired parking patrol etc., however we have seen the parking and traffic problems <br />continue. Just recently a part of Lilac street was deemed red zone which now helps prevent parking <br />in the tight street corners. <br /> <br />The church has already proven over and over again they cannot handle the size of their church