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It is not necessary or helpful to your constituents, including those in need of affordable housing, to crowd this space with too many apartment units. As the units of the project will be priced too high to alleviate overcrowding in Santa Ana, the project will only increase the density of our City's housing. The real mistake is thoughtlessly abandoning our City's General Plan, which our Planning and Building Agency's Executive Director has aptly called the "City's Constitution." We are haphazardly rezoning piecemeal based on the wants of an individual developer rather than a coherent appraisal of what is in the best interests of the City of Santa Ana. I would like to seek a project for this property that will enhance the cultural uses of the property's neighbors on the North Main Street corridor the revitalized and transformed Main Street Mall, the Bowers Museum, the Santiago Park green spaces, and the Discovery Science Center. This portion of North Main Street should be developed as a premier business location that is part of the exciting and inviting entry to our City already underway, that can be used and enjoyed by all in our City. I greatly appreciate and strongly support the need to attract new development to our City but believe that the adjusted record at 2525 Main Street shows that the financial benefit to the City by this developer in terms of new general fund revenue will be significantly less than originally anticipated. and will not justify the very real harm that it will do to our City. Conclusion In conclusion, I am an individual voter, and home owner who for over twenty years has lived less than a mile away from this proposed development in a neighborhood that will be severely and irreversibly damaged by the decision to rezone and overbuild this parcel of land. I ask you to act in the best interests not only of the surrounding neighborhoods, and of Ward 3, but of our entire City. Together, we can do better. Think of the City's future. Continue to require complete and sound answers to the many important outstanding questions you and your constituents have asked about this proposal. Vote against this development. Thank you for your service to our City. Respectfully Submitted, Mrs. Ellen Koldewey Santa Ana CA 92706