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Honorable Mayor Pulido
<br />Santa Ana City Council
<br />November 18, 2019
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<br />Applicant's Project of 347 units resulted in an impasse by the Planning Commission.
<br />The Applicant chose to appeal the Project to the City Council. Following this meeting
<br />and due to extensive modifications to the Project, the City required that a modified
<br />project be presented to the Planning Commission once again.
<br />The latest modifications have culminated in the present, unrecognizable, and rashly
<br />considered Project —a far cry from the initial Project as considered and evaluated in the
<br />FEIR. (See City Staff Rept., Oct. 28, 2019, 2-3 thru 2-4 [modified Project in its current
<br />iteration].) The staff report identifies the modified Project will have a lot line adjustment
<br />and be built on 4.4 acres, with the remaining 1.4 acres to be used by a third party for
<br />surface parking. There is no mention of selling this 1.4 acres to a third party in the staff
<br />report. The 4.4 acre property would still require the complete demolition of an existing
<br />two-story, 81,172 square foot office building. (See City Staff Rept., Oct. 28, 2019, 2-4,
<br />Tbl. 1 [project location information]; see also, id. at 2-5 [discussing demolition of existing
<br />office building].) The intensity of the proposed use and requisite Project construction
<br />(demolition of an existing building) stands in harsh contrast to the surrounding, far less
<br />intensive land uses, including the designated open space "Santiago Park" to the north
<br />and the single family residential homes — R1 to the east and south. (See City Staff
<br />Rept., Oct. 28, 2019, 2-4, Tbl. 1 [Project location information and adjacent uses].)
<br />On or about October 28, 2019, the modified Project came before the Planning
<br />Commission for the third time. (See City Staff Rept., Oct. 28, 2019, 2-1 [listing date of
<br />hearing].) The Planning Commission denied, again for a third time, approval of the
<br />Project. (See Official Video of Planning Commission Regular Meeting.)'
<br />In its present iteration before the City Council, the Project purports to construct a 256-
<br />unit multifamily housing project at 58 dwelling units per acre, with 511 parking spaces
<br />Proposed, and an additional 180 surface parking spaces on the second adjacent lot.
<br />(See City Staff Rept., Oct. 28, 2019, 2-1, 2-4, Tbl. 1, 2-5, passim.) However, the
<br />conditions of approval acknowledge that no joint parking agreement is in place and that
<br />there would not be one until the issuance of the first certificate of occupancy. (See City
<br />Staff Rept., Oct. 28, 2019, 2-603.) Even upon issuance, it appears that any joint
<br />parking agreement would be revocable at any time and by either party. (ibid.) Again,
<br />entitlements requested include the following:
<br />• Adoption of an ordinance approving a development agreement between the
<br />Applicant and the City, identified as Development Agreement No. 2018-01;
<br />The meeting minutes are not yet avai Iable. accordingly, the video is available at
<br />htlL://samaann eranicus coo/NlcdinPhrcr phlfl� t5 id-2S,clin id ti�7 (last accessed Nov. 11, 2019. on lile).
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