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2019. Therefore, while you still have the chance to make any needed corrections in the development process, implore every member of the City Council to seek an impartial review by the City Attorney or other appropriate authority of the apparent allegations made on the public record by Mayor Pro Tom Villegas and Councilmember Inglesias at the December 3, 2019 Council meeting. Please publicly confirm your satisfaction with the integrity of our City's public process for yourselves and your constituents before the final vote is taken. 4 Then, if, after considering all of this additional information, as City leaders, you still believe that not building this high density luxury apartment complex in this particular neighborhood would result in treating other neighborhoods unfairly, I again ask you to let all of the voters of Santa Ana decide. Send the zoning amendment ordinance to a City Wide referendum in a special election. Don't burden your constituents with the enormous responsibility of sending the ordinance to a City wide vote. if you still have doubts about what our community supports, take the initiative to let the voters all across the City decide this controversial issue. Let the majority of the voters of Santa Ana determine whether to build this project. Alternatively, I request that those of you who supported the project on November 19, 2019 and continued the matter on December 3, now reconsider and oppose rather than adopt these two ordinances. There is ample evidence in the present record to do so. If you carefully review the information presented at the City Council Meetings on November 19 and December 3, 2019, 1 believe you must conclude that both ordinances rest on a deeply flawed and incomplete Environmental Impact Report ((EIR) No. 2018-01.) The Development Agreement you are again voting on becomes null and void if a court of competent jurisdiction finds that the Environmental Impact Report is invalid for any reason or it otherwise does not go into effect. (Section 5, para. 2, page 8 of 10, Ordinance NS-2979.) I believe that the Zoning Amendment requires unwarranted spot zoning with no compelling justification. Finally, both the proposed Development Agreement and the Zoning Amendment adversely affect and conflict with the City's General Plan, even as amended per Amendment No. 2018-06 and Amendment Application No. 2018-10. Thank you for your consideration and your continued service to our City. Respectfully submitted, Mrs. Ellen Koldewey Santa Ana CA 92706 1 11A ORDINANCE SECOND READING: APPROVING DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT NO. 201 M1 WITH AC 2525 MAIN, LLC AND AMENDMENT APPLICATION NO.2018-01 TO ESTABLISH SPECIFIC DEVELOPMENT NO. 93 (SD-93) FOR 2525 NORTH MAIN STREET (STRATEGIC PLAN NO. 3, 2)— eading at the November 19, 2019 City Council meeting and approved by a vote of 4-3 (Bacerra, Pulido and Villegas Planning and Building Agency Placed on first r dissented). Published in the Orange County Reporter on November 22, 2019. Continued on December 3, 2019. RECOMMENDED ACTION., Place ordinances on second reading and adopt. 1. ORDINANCE NO. NS-2979 -AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL OF THE CITY OF SANTA ANA APPROVING DEVELOPMENT AGREEMENT NO.2018-01 BETWEEN THE CITY OF SANTA ANA AND AC 2525 MAIN, LLC FOR CERTAIN REAL PROPERTY LOCATED AT 2525 NORTH MAIN STREET WITHIN THE CITY OF SANTA ANA PURSUANT TO CALIFORNIA GOVERNMENT CODE SECTION 65864, ET SEQ. 2. ORDINANCE NO. NS-2980 - AN ORDINANCE OF THE CITY COUNCIL APPROVING AMENDMENT APPLICATION NO. 2018-10 REZONING THE PROPERTY LOCATED AT 2525 NORTH MAIN STREET FROM PROFESSIONAL NO 9 O SPECIFIC DEVELOPMENT(SD 3) FOR SAID PROPERTY 93 (SD-93) (AA NO.2018-10) AND ADOPTING SPECIFIC DEVELOPMENT 2 See https //santana oranicus com /MetaViewer. Dhp?view id=2&event id=8253&meta_id=104620 (Ex.11 a, pages 1- , rt recommendations accompanying present agenda item in 11A (1) including Exhibit 1) for Santa Ana's City Staff Repo ded by constituents at the December 3, 2019 Council Meeting. regarding Development Agreement changes recommen 3 view id=2&cli id=2549&meta id=103663 ;A related exchange See htt s://santaana. rgnicus.com/MediaPla er. h can be found at roughly the 2 hour and 12 minute mark to roughly 2 hour and 20 minute mark. In this exchange, Councilmember Cecelia Inglesias also spoke about the possible involvement of a particular organization. The Mayor Pro Tern then makes statements regarding "dark money" behind real estate development and politics in the City at hour 2:16 and roughly 40 seconds See also: htips://voiceofoe.org/2019/12/santa-ana-councilman-publicly-calls-out-dark-money-campaign-welcomes-fbi- interview/