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Orono, Norma From: John Hanna <jhanna@swcarpenters.org> Sent: Tuesday, April 21, 2020 4:02 PM To: eComment Cc: Bernal, Sarah Subject: item 75 A on April 21, 2020 Santa Ana City COuncil Agenda Public Comment PUBLIC COMMENT ON ITEM 75 A On behalf of the 56,000 strong Southwest Regional Council of Carpenters, including almost 1,000 carpenters who reside in Santa Ana, I urge the Santa Ana City Council to support the recommended action for the 1 Broadway Plaza Mixed -Use project located at 1109 North Broadway. This includes approving resolutions adopting an addendum to the EIR for 1 Broadway Plaza and re -adopting the mitigation monitoring and reporting program as well as approving a General Plan amendment. It also includes adopting an ordinance approving a Zoning Ordinance amendment to amend certain provisions of the Specific Development No. 75 zone. The Planning Commission, with no opposing votes, supported this project and also recommended a project labor agreement, adding Logan to the neighborhoods requiring a Traffic Mitigation Plan and increasing the money to $300,000 per neighborhood for that purpose and to spend the park fees generated by the project in the same district as the project. All of these are sound recommendations which Mike Harrah and Caribou Inc., the developer, has stipulated to as approval conditions to obtaining a building permit. Your approval of One Broadway Plaza will allow this project to move forward and become an economic stimulus for Santa Ana. Additional quality residential units will become available for both current Santa Ana residents and people who want to move into Santa Ana to be closer to the work, dining and entertainment in our city, as well as the specific amenities of this upscale project. Traffic mitigation in a number of neighborhoods will be in addition to the traffic mitigation responsibilities of Mike Harrah and Caribou, Inc. set forth in this Agenda Item. The project labor agreement will ensure a steady supply of skilled workers and our carpenters are ready to do their part to make this the finest mixed use project in Orange County. Santa Ana carpenters and other building trades members who reside in Santa Ana will get opportunities to work near where they live. We thank the developer and Ron Miller and Ernesto Medrano of the LA -Orange County Building and Construction Trades Council for their work in reaching this agreement which, as you know, was part of the original development agreement entered into in 2004. Like many good things in life, this project has been long in the making. We're fortunate that Mike Harrah has stayed committed to this project, just as he has stayed committed to Santa Ana. Lesser developers would have given up on this project. Thank God, not Mike. While many areas of the country are wondering how they are going to help kickstart the local economy as we gradually recover from the economic impact of the COVID 19 shut down, 1 Broadway Plaza will bring much needed revenue to city coffers and economic vigor to private sector businesses and to the men and women who will build 1 Broadway Plaza and those that will work in it after it is built. John R. Hanna