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ww��1 December 17, 2019 ATTN: Santa Ana Mayor Santa Ana City Council Santa Ana City Manager On December 17, 2019, The Santa Ana Mayor and Council is considering again the approval of a zoning ordinance amendment in an industrial area that would allow public, private and charter schools to be built and/or expanded. Approval of this action will have a negative impact on impacted businesses and surrounding neighborhoods. Vista Heritage Charter School is requesting a capacity of 960 students on 1.5 acres. Currently Vista Heritage Charter houses 270 students on''/2 an acre. The City Council agenda summary says 870 students but the Council Exhibit that will be voted upon has a cap of 960 students. Is it 960 or 870 students? This does not include the 50 or so preschoolers who are housed in a church daycare facility. Visa Heritage Charter School wishes to expand its school from 18,368 square feet to over 66,000 square feet. That is almost a 259 percent increase in square footage! Romero Cruz Academy (formerly Spurgeon) currently houses approximately 1,027 students on 19 acres. That is 12.5 times the acreage that Vista Heritage Charter School is proposing for its expansion with nearly the same number of students. School hours being proposed increases currently from 8 am - 3 pm to 7:30 am - 6 pm. That is almost 4 more hours or nearly 50 percent more hours that the school will be open Monday through Friday. This does not include weekend activities that will happen periodically! This places the auto repair, tire shops, and other businesses on the property in direct competition with Vista Heritage Charter School, Templo Calvario Church and the daycare facility for where there is limited parking. After decades of expansion and little attention to zoning, Temple Calvario Church proposed additional expansion plans on October 8, 2008. Prior to that, on August 25, 2008 the Planning Commission voted to rezone the commercial property to include the church expansion in the zoning. When the City rezoned the lot in question from Ml to SD82, there was a shortage of several hundred parking spots to meet the current code. In an attempt to remedy this lack of parking, the City created a variance to allow for this large shortage of parking (#2008-04). This variance did not fix or address the problem, it just pushed it to the existing owners of the other businesses located in the industrial park and surrounding property owners. The Templo Calvario church expansion which was completed in 2009 at a cost of $11 million included going from 1,500 seats to 3,000 seats for their, then, 6,000 members. The church has grown in membership since. This increased the usage of its members on a daily basis which also impacts limited parking on the property, adjoining streets and neighborhoods. There was a level of tolerance by the business owners to the Templo Calvario Church because much of the volume was on the weekend when many of the businesses were not open. However, allowing a school to operate on this property and now to further expand it has put the industrial business owners in direct competition with the school and church for parking on a daily and hourly basis.