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Re: Planning Commission direction to Mariscos Hectors and interested commenters. Dear Chairman McLoughlin and Commissioners: This note is intended to provide you with an update following your Planning Commission meeting on April 29, 2019. At the April 29 meeting Commissioners Cano and Contreras-Leo requested that the applicant meet with interested commenters to hear their concerns and return for consideration at the May 28th meeting. Further the commission directed city staff to assist in scheduling and facilitating that meeting. Unfortunately, despite the staffs best efforts that meeting has not been scheduled and staff is currently being told by the interested commenters that a meeting can not take place until late June. This strategic delay is very disappointing to Hectors Inc, the applicant, and Maria Sebold, the owner. Maria and I have been requesting a meeting with neighborhood association representatives since November of 2018. Promises have been made but they have refused to schedule a meeting. The City planning department has also attempted to contact the neighborhood association representatives but they have failed to respond. In addition to the economic hardship this places on the applicant this delay tactic also is disruptive to the restaurant improvement plans that are intended to compliment the city’s South Main St. improvement project scheduled to begin this summer. Hectors Inc is a good applicant for a conditional use permit. For the last several years Maria Sebold has taken numerous steps to regain ownership and therefore management control of each of the Mariscos Hectors in Santa Ana. Maria is driven to gain control so she may rebrand Hectors in accordance with her vision as a family oriented restaurant serving the community in which she lives and works. To date Maria’s efforts have been successful and her path to full management control is expected in the near term.