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Salas, Diana From: Jeff Dickman <dickmanaj@att.net> Sent: Monday, April 20, 2020 12:52 PM To: eComment Subject: Public Comment for Agenda Item No. 75A - Santa Ana City Council Meeting, April 21, 5:45 PM Public Comment for Agenda Item No. # 75A Santa Ana City Council Meeting, April 21, 2020 The One Broadway Plaza office tower is planned at the northeast corner of Broadway and Tenth Street, and is situated between six neighborhoods, which include: • French Court • Willard • Logan • Lacy • Downtown, and • French Park The Planning Commission's recommendation to City Council is to allow the Developer to convert 50%+ of the 37-story project to 402 market -rate apartments without key community benefits. This raised concerns for the public who participated in the Commission's March 30, and April 2, meetings where One Broadway Plaza was discussed. The following is a summary of some of those concerns and requests for City Council's consideration. Concern #1. Community want One Broadway Plaza to include Affordable Housing The PC agreed to allow the Developer to pay a fee instead of building the required affordable apartment units. Apartment units, which would have been available to those in need, will now become market -rate apartments. The burden to construct OBP's affordable apartments would become the responsibility of the City. The PC's action insures that affordable -rate apartment units, and the people who would have lived in those units, are removed, and effectively segregated from the OBP project. Request #1: Developer to construct his affordable apartment units on -site, to insure the project is not income -segregated. Concern #2. Community want One Broadway Plaza to prepare a new Development Agreement (DA) The PC did not recommend the project prepare a new DA. Development Agreements protect parties, specifically concerning duties, performance and timing. DA's may include project -contributed community benefits like insuring a developer construct on -site affordable housing, provides park land, and expands traffic mitigations. Request #2: Developer to prepare a new DA to include, but not be limited to, community benefits, roles and responsibilities to fund, design and/or implement those benefits, including performance timing, remedies, and fines if either party does not meet specific goals and or deadlines.