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manatt December 16, 2019 VIA ELECTRONIC MAIL Santa Ana City Council Attn: Clerk of the Council (dgomez n santa-ana.org) 20 Civic Center Plaza P.O. Box 1988, M31 Santa Ana, CA 92701 Re: 2525 N. Main Street Multi -Fancily Project (Addington Multi -Family Residential Project) Honorable Mayor Pulido and Members of the City Council: Susan K. Hori Manatt, Phelps & Phillips, LLP Direct Dial: (714) 371-2528 E-mail: shori@manatt.com This letter is submitted on behalf of our client, AC 2525 Main, LLC, the applicant for the 2525 N. Main Street project (the "Project'), in response to issues raised by opponents of the Project at the City Council meeting of December 3, 2019, when the adoption of certain Project approvals were scheduled for consideration by the City Council. The City Council continued considerations of these approvals to the City Council meeting of December 17, 2019. Many of these same arguments were presented to the Planning Commission at its meeting of October 19, 2019. The Council action scheduled for December 3`1 would have been the conclusion of a lengthy process for the consideration of this Project. Over the last two years, this Project has undergone extensive environmental review as well as several Planning Commission hearings at which the public has provided City decisionmakers with their concerns and comments. As a result, the Project that comes before you has been substantially reduced in size and environmental impact, and provides additional benefits to the community. The original application contemplated a 496 unit residential project ("Original Project'). It was originally considered by the Planning Commission in August, 2018. The City prepared a Draft EIR that was circulated for public review, and after responding to all comments received, a Final EIR was also submitted to the Planning Commission, but was not certified at that time. Subsequently, over the course of the multi -year entitlement process that this Project has undergone, our client received comments on the Original Project from City staff, Commissioners and Councilmembers, as well as from neighborhood groups and individual citizens and their representatives. As a result, our client undertook to reduce the impact of the Original Project in order to address the concerns that were raised. The Project that came before you (the "October 2019 Project') reduced the number of residential units to 256 units and made corresponding changes to other aspects of the Original Project, including modifications to the unit sizes and 695 Town Center Drive, 14th Floor, Costa Mesa, California 92626-1924 Telephone: 714.371,2500 Fax: 714.371.2550 Albany I Boston I Chicago I Los Angeles I New York I Orange County I Palo Alto I Sacramento I San Francisco I Washington, D.C.