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retail center and restaurant as one of the first things a visitor or resident sees upon entering the City, as opposed to yet another massive, loud, imposing car wash. The Russell Fischer Car Wash Project will be further detrimental to the community's general well being because it will adversely affect existing car washes within the City, especially those in close proximity to the Project, like the Conklin's Speedie Clean Express Car Wash ("Speedie Wash"). The negative impact on businesses like Speedie Wash, which is located only 1.1 miles from the Project, in turn will be detrimental to the entire community. The Conklin's made a substantial investment in the City of Santa Ana when they purchased both the property (2035 N. Tustin Avenue) and business (Speedie Wash) in 2017 for several million dollars. Bill Conklin is a retired prosthetist, and Karina is a stay at home mom to their 10-year-old son, Tyler, who is autistic and hearing disabled. The Conklins invested their life's savings into Speedie Wash because they envisioned their future in Santa Ana, where Karina grew up, operating Speedie Wash together, and one day enjoying it with their son as an employee. With Speedie Wash, the Conklin are working on amazing projects that enrich their community and residents/visitors, whereby they offer fiill service car washes in coordination with entities like the Regional Center of Orange County and GoodWill that offer programs for disabled adults. Unfortunately, the Conklin have had to put such charitable projects on hold and focus their attention on saving their business, which is being threatened by the unnecessary new supersized Russell Fischer Car Wash Project. The City recently approved another large-scale car wash, Rocket Express Car Wash, located at 1703 East 17th Street, which is currently under development. Rocket Express Car Wash is located only 1 mile from Speedie Wash. The Conklin's recently were informed that two more applications to develop new large-scale car washes have been submitted to the City in addition to the Russell Fischer Car Wash Project herein at issue. The proposed locations are N. Tustin Avenue and Santa Clara Avenue, and Grand Avenue between 171h Street and Fairhaven Avenue. If approved, they would bring Santa Ana's car wash total to 24. The proposed locations of these two additional car washes are 0.2 miles and approximately 1 mile, respectively, from Speedie Wash. These proposed car washes are both approximately 1.4 miles from the Russell Fischer Car Wash Project. (See Exhibit A.) In light of the foregoing, it should be abundantly clear that the Russell Fischer Car Wash Project will not provide a service or facility that will contribute to the general well being of the neighborhood or community. In fact, the car wash service/facility is redundant, and will negatively impact other existing car washes. In contrast, the retail building and drive through restaurant currently approved for the site would benefit the neighborhood and community. 2. The Car Wash Project Will Be Particularly Detrimental to the Health, Safety, or General Welfare of Persons Residing or Working in the Vicinity. Oversaturating the City with yet another massive car wash eliminates employment opportunities within the City because car washes like the Russell Fischer Car Wash Project hire very few employees. 75A-16