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Mitre -Ramirez, Norma From: Adeline Allen <adeline.allen@gmail.com> Sent: Monday, November 4, 2019 6:14 PM To: eComment Subject: City Council: Please vote no on the 2525 Main Street Development Dear members of the Santa Ana City Council: Greetings, and thank you for your service for our city. Please vote no on the 2525 Main Street Development. The Planning Commission voted against it the second time on October 28, even after the proposal had gone through a revision. The Planning Commission was right to vote against it (again). And you'll be exactly right to vote against it when it comes up before you. Since the proposal's revision, it has been reduced in volume. But it is still too crowded for the neighborhood. There is no justifiable reason to rezone the space when there are thousands of new apartments currently being built within a few square miles of it —with many units built in the last few years still remaining empty today. In support of the North Santa Ana Preservation Alliance (NSAPA), I oppose any rezoning and General Plan amendment to 2525 Main Street Residential development. Please take care to keep the zoning at 2525 Main Street as is, as it has long been. Rezoning or general amendment change on the 2525 Main Residential Development is not for the common good of the city. Please vote no on the development. Some say that the City Council may dismiss Park Santiago's opposition as owing to cantankerousness as a result of the neighborhood's (perceived) demographics: white, old, conservative. and rich. But let me submit to you that even if the demographics (1) were accurate and (2) were in fact related to the opposition, they are irrelevant to the validity of the opposition. In other words, why should Park Santiago's concerns be invalidated due to the citizens' race, ethnicity, age, and household income group? Such disparate treatment would be unjust and un-American. It may be surprising that I am, in fact, a thirty -six -year -old woman, mother of two young children, and first -generation immigrant from a poor South East Asian country. And yet I live in Park Santiago. Not that my background should matter, because the citizens' concerns should be considered on their merits. They are valid because we live here and would be the ones most affected by the development. Please vote no on the development. Thank you. Sincerely, Adeline A. Allen 529 Virginia Avenue Santa Ana, California 92706