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I greatly appreciate and strongly support the need to attract new development to our City but believe that the financial benefit to our City from this development in terms of new general fund revenue will be significantly less than originally anticipated and will not justify the very real harm that rezoning for such high density residential units will do to our City. OR 60A 2) SEND TILE PROPOSED ORDINANCES TO A BALLOT INITIATIVE MEASURE TO SUBMIT TO THE VOTERS IN A CITY-WIDE ELECTION I believe that your constituents in the neighborhoods surrounding 2525 North Main Street are aware of, and opposed to, the 2525 North Main Street project. I believe that your constituents City-wide are concerned about City plans for building and development. If you have any doubt about your constituents' position on this project, please do not act on unverified or partial information. If you are concerned that those of us speaking against this project do not represent the will of your constituents and the best interests of the entire community, I implore you to submit the proposed ordinances directly to the voters. Through the ballot initiative, you can accurately survey the extent of support of all of the voters of Santa Ana for this project. Please do not burden your constituents with the enormous responsibility of gathering the estimated 16,000 signatures needed in 30 days for a referendum to send the ordinances to a City-wide vote to make our voices heard. Put the proposed ordinances on a City-wide election ballot. Empower the voters to speak and decide. MOVING FORWARD I urge you to bring our neighborhoods together now to complete a new General Plan. Our City has been a leader in reaching the state's regional housing assessment goals for all income levels of housing. However, in some of our high density development, we appear to be needlessly abandoning the agreed upon goals of our current General Plan without reaching consensus on new ones. As a result, constituents are pushing back. Our State's Department of Housing and Community Development reminds us that "(g)eneral plans serve as the local government's "blueprint" for how the city and/or county will grow and develop ...housing policy in California rests largely on the effective implementation of local general plans and, in particular, local housing elements."I From my experience with this project and others, I have come to believe that completing a new General Plan is key to building constituent support for future housing development. CLOSING In closing, I ask you to oppose the 2525 North Main Street Addington residential development on second reading. Alternatively, I urge you to submit an initiative measure on the proposed 2525 North Main Street ordinances to the voters at a City-wide election. Let the voters of Santa Ana decide whether this project should be built. Moving forward, I ask you to lead our City to complete a new General Plan. Thank you for your consideration and for your service to our City. Respectfully submitted, Mrs. Ellen Koldewey Santa Ana CA 92706 1 Califo nia Devartment of Housing and Community Development/Regional Housing Needs Allocation and Housing Elements