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=A wV wZ 10 J W J ZO H 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 referred to as 2525 N. Main Street, Santa Ana, California ("Property"). The Project site is located across from the Discovery Cube of Orange County, on the opposite side of Main Street. The Project site also abuts the Park Santiago residential neighborhood, which is adjacent to Santiago Park and Santiago Creek, designated open space area. 12. On information and belief, the Project includes a proposal to sell 1.4 acres of the Property to Discovery Science Center. Applicant and Discovery Science Center seek to enter into a mutual parking agreement to share a parking lot on a 1.4 acre portion of the parcel that is revocable at any time and by either party. This parking agreement is contingent upon the City first issuing a certificate of occupancy. This contingency is problematic in part because a ministerial certificate may only be issued well -after the requisite discretionary approval. 13. Upon information and belief, in or about late 2017, the City began preparing a Draft Environmental Impact Report ("Draft EIR"). As initially proposed by the Applicant, as distinct from the ultimate Project, the plans included a multi -family residential development of 496 units (the "Initial Plan"). Petitioner's members staunchly opposed, and one or more of them publicly commented on, the Initial Plan and its Draft EIR. The City failed to meaningfully respond. 14. In the Draft EIR, the Initial Plan included the following project description: 3.3 Project Site Description The project site consists of 5.93 acres of land that is developed with one vacant two-story office building. The office building is 81,172 square feet in size, was constructed in 1982 and used by the Wells Fargo bank until July 2017. The office building is located on the northwestern portion of the project site. The building is divided into east and west wings connected by a central two-story lobby area. The remainder of the project site consists of paved driveways, surface parking areas that include 442 parking spaces, and landscaping. A portion of the existing spaces (no more than 175 per the existing use agreement) are currently used by the Discovery Cube for overflow and employee parking. 3.6 Project Characteristics The proposed project would redevelop the 5.9-acre project site to provide 496 for -rent multi -family residential units. The residences would be provided within approximately 572,075 square feet of residential 4516.101 / 8560319.1 VERIFIED PETMON FOR WRIT OF MANDATE/MANDAMUS