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Mark A. Rothenberg, Esq. 2042 North Ross Street Santa Ana, California 92706 September 12, 2018 VIA US MAIL & EMAIL Ms. Selena Kelaher Associate Planner Planning and Building Agency City of Santa Ana PO Box 1988 Santa Ana, California 92702 Re: Letter of Objection/Comments/Magnolia at the Park/Draft FIR (State Clearing House No. 2018021031-Santa Ana DP No. 2017-34 Dear Ms. Kelaher: Please add this letter to the record of the proceedings for the above captioned project. As a threshold matter, I respectfully request the City enlarge the review and comment period on the draft EIR (EIR) by an additional ninety (90) days. A substantial portion of the review and comment period occurred during the end of the summer holidays where families are returning from vacation and the last several weeks fall during the Jewish High Holidays of Rosh Ha Shama and Yom Kippur. I also respectfully request that the City's certification of the EIR take place following the new year and that Council not consider the matter during or proximate to Thanksgiving, Christmas, or New Years. In addition, the EIR is lengthy, complex, and will have dramatic and long-standing impacts on the City. Therefore, the public should be afforded sufficient time to review its contents. In support of the assertions in this letter, kindly note that I have resided in Floral Park since 2011. In addition. I have nearly twenty years of experience as a land use attorney having practiced land use law in Florida and California. A good deal of my experience has been on behalf of large commercial and residential developers. I also have the privilege of serving as an adjunct professor of land use law at Chapman University Law School. In sum: the project dramatically over -develops a site that has, for nearly a hundred years of recorded history, been complimentary and supportive of adjacent single- family residential communities. The project subordinates adjacent neighborhoods to the blight associated with an overly intensive, under -parked, and aesthetically uninteresting, r The undersigned solely represents himself as a property owner and resident of Santa Ana.