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Salas, Diana <br />From: <br />Ellen Koldewey <mrskold@yahoo.com> <br />Sent: <br />Monday, January 20, 2020 5:00 PM <br />To: <br />eComment <br />Subject: <br />Fw: 1-21-2020 City Council Business Agenda Item 60A(1) and (2) 2525 NORTH MAIN <br />STREET <br />Forwarded Message ----- <br />From: Ellen Koldewey <mrskold@yahoo.com> <br />To: eComments@santa-ana.org <ecomments@santa-ana.org> <br />Sent: Monday, January 20, 2020, 04:19:12 PM PST <br />Subject: Fw: 1-21-2020 City Council Business Agenda Item 60A(l) and (2) 2525 NORTH MAIN STREET <br />----- Forwarded Message ----- <br />From: Ellen Koldewey <mrskold@yahoo.com> <br />To: ecomments@santa-ana.org <ecomments@sama-ana.org> <br />Cc: mpulido@santa-ana.org <mpulido@santa-ana.org>; jvillegas@santa-ana.org <jvillegas@santa-ana.org>; vsarmiento@santa- <br />ana.org <vsarmiento@santa-ana.org>; jsolorio@santa-ana.org <jsolorio@sama-ana.org>; ciglesias@santa-ana.org <ciglesias@santa- <br />ana.org>; David Penaloza <dpenaloza@santa-ana.org>; Phil Bacerra <pbacerra@santa-ana.org>; Sonia R. Carvalho <br /><scalvalho@santa-ana.org>; kridge@santa-ana.org <Icridge@santa-ana.org>; Daisy Gomez <dgomez@santa-ana.org> <br />Sent: Monday, January 20, 2020, 02:30:08 PM PST <br />Subject: 1-21-2020 City Council Business Agenda Item 60A(l) and (2) 2525 NORTH MAIN STREET <br />CONSTITUENT REQUEST FOR ACTION ON 2525 NORTH MAIN STREET <br />Greetings Mayor and Councilmembers,sLi <br />As your constituent and a Santa Ana voter, I urge you to take the following actions on Business Agenda Item 60 Al) and 2): <br />*Vote against the adoption of the zoning amendment and development agreement at the second reading of the <br />ordinance. OR <br />*Send the proposed ordinances to a ballot initiative measure to submit to the voters at a City-wide election. <br />60.41) VOTE AGAINST IME ADOPTION OF THE ZONING AMENDMENT AND DEVEIOPMENT <br />AGREEMENT <br />I continue to oppose the rezoning of this property to permit the building of the 2525 <br />North Main Street residential complex. I appreciate the ongoing discussion of changes to be made in this project. However, <br />significant problems remain. I agree with those who have said that this is a good project in a bad location. <br />Our City has met or exceeded our State's regional housing assessment goals for all income levels of housing. The people of Santa Ana <br />do not need to settle for this misplaced, high density, outsized housing project. I acknowledge there are ongoing conversations to <br />reduce the number of units to be built. However, it is not necessary or helpful to your constituents, including those in need of <br />affordable housing, to rezone this property to crowd this space with too many apartment units. As the units of the project will be <br />priced too high to alleviate overcrowding in Santa Ana, the project will only increase the density of our City's housing. <br />I wotdd like to seek a project for this property that will enhance the cultural uses of the property's neighbors on the North Mahn Street <br />corridor the revitalized and transformed Main Street Mall, the Bowers Museum, the Santiago Park green spaces, and the <br />Discovery Science Center. This potion of North Main Street should continue to be developed as a premier business location that is <br />part of the exciting and inviting entry to our City already underway, that can be used and enjoyed by all in our City. <br />