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Mitre -Ramirez, Norma From: Bill B <billbonnett@gmail.com> Sent: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 1:38 PM To: Pulido, Miguel; Sarmiento, Vicente; Penaloza, David; Solorio, Jose; Villegas, Juan; Iglesias, Cecilia; eComment Subject: Opposed to the proposed revised 2525 Main St Residential Apartment Complex Dear Mayor and Councilmembers, I am writing to oppose the 2525 Main St. residential development. I ask you to put Santa Ana Residents first and vote Against this project. Why do I oppose this project: 1.2525 Main St is an excellent location for continued Professional Office Use. It has been the location of a Fortune 100 Company, Wells Fargo, since the mid 1980's. Wells Fargo chose to moves its operations to Chandler, AZ, not because 2525 was a bad location, but because AZ offered them incentives to do so. 2525 works well as a Professional office site. 2. There is more than sufficient high density luxury apartments in the immediate area. As you know, 1,900 Luxury apartments have been approved for Main Place Mall, less than 1/2 mile away. 3. The City's street at Main/Edgewood simply can not adequately handle the additional traffic that will be created by the already approved luxury apartment units in the immediate area. Office traffic is non existent on weekends, holidays, and after 7 pm weekdays. 4. 2525 Main St is not a good location for Apartment Units, as it is within 500 feet of the very congested and pollution from the 5 freeway. Many large air quality boards advise AGAINST building residential units within 500 feet of a freeway due to the very poor air quality. Having apartment residents outside, in their amenity areas, including pools, decks, BBQ's areas, patios etc, while breathing the unhealthy fumes from the 5 freeway is irresponsible and unethical, knowing what we ALL know now, about building residences next to freeways. 5. Santa Ana needs to maintain 2525 Main St as a Business location for the thousands of new residents coming to all the new apartments in Santa Ana. We should be supporting local jobs sites for our residences, instead of making them drive to cities like Irvine, to work in a new office building and for a desirable employer. We must do better than simply continuously approving High Density Apartments, Starbucks, and fast food restaurants in our City. 6. Our General Plan should not continue to be violated with Zoning Changes and Amendments, when the current use of the parcel is strong and viable.