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Salas, Diana From: sandy welch <welch_sandy@yahoo.com> Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 12:24 PM To: Sarmiento, Vicente; Penaloza, David; Solorio, Jose; Bacerra, Phil; Villegas, Juan; Iglesias, Cecilia; eComment Subject: One Broadway Plaza One Broadway Plaza applicant is requesting a change of land use entitlements for a project that has been stalled for over 10 years. The studies that were done 15 years ago no longer apply. The city seems to be on a building spree and with the addition of these new projects there will a greater impact to the surrounding neighborhoods than was anticipated in 2004. Primarily the impact of traffic, that the hundreds of new residents in these new housing units will create, will have to be mitigated. Each unit will probably have at least wo automobiles possibly more if multi family members are drivers. All traveling to and from their place of employment in addition to everyday living excursions. I have looked into the number of new projects and the number of units each will accommodate. And with my limited research abilities I have counted almost 1000 new units being built in a 2 mile radius. Bridging the Aqua Housing 317 E. 17th 56 units Toll Brothers/ First American Title Project 220 units 4th and Main Legacy Square 93 units 609 Spurgeon Santa Ana Arts Collective Meta Housing 56 units 1666 N. Main Mercy House (Xavier Project?) 17 units Garfield and Lacy One Broadway Plaza 10th and Broadway 415 units Also proposed: 888 North Main 125 units 3rd and Broadway 171 units 408-405 E. 4th 133 units Not to mention the 500 additional units in the 2500 and 2700 blocks of North Main. This is quite an extensive list and I have not seen a map of the city indicating the route travelers to and from the projects will be traversing. Surely the city's traffic engineers have planned these routes out and have a master map showing the combined traffic impact. In addition I attended a meeting in our French Park Neighborhood to address the roundabouts that are to be built on Civic Center Boulevard. These will impede traffic even more and direct cars to the point of least resistance. Thus directing more cars through the neighborhood streets to get to and from the freeway. Drivers who normally travel Civic Center to and from the city will not travel through 4 roundabout to get to the freeway. They may do it once or twice but will certainly find an easier way and the path of least resistance is through the neighborhood. When asked how this would be addressed William Galvez, traffic engineer had no answer. These problems need to be addressed before projects are in existence. To tell residents they will just have to live with the problems these projects create is unacceptable. We need help now. We already have traffic speeding through residential streets disrupting our quality of life and safety. To add thousands more trips with no plan or mitigation to lessen the impact is unconscionable and not what city planning is about. Z�