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Orozco, Norma From: Jeff Dickman <dickmanaj@att.net> Sent: Tuesday, May 05, 2020 1:21 PM To: eComment; Iglesias, Cecilia Subject: Second Reading for One Broadway Plaza - Item 11 B on the Consent Calendar portion of the City Council Agenda for May 5, 2020 My name is Jeff Dickman, and I reside at 1218 N French Street in the French Park neighhorhood. My comments pertain to Consent Calendar Item IIB. I DO NOT support the Second Reading for the One Broadway Plaza Project. Dear Councilwoman Iglesias; Thank you again for standing up for the many neighborhoods which surround the One Broadway Plaza office tower project site. You were the only Councilmember to request a delay to convert 19 floors of office space to high density apartments. The purpose for the delay is to allow time for the City, and its residents, to consider mitigations for an array of impacts from One Broadway Plaza on the health and safety of residents living in the Logan, Downtown, French Court, French Park, Lacy, Willard, Washington Square and Floral Park neighborhoods. As renters, and owners, we again ask for your help to pull Consent Item 11 B (the second reading), from Consent Calendar Item 10A, the Minutes from the Regular Meeting of April 21, 2020 of the City Council, for discussion purposes (see below). The community was disappointed that City Council approved significant changes to OBP. These changes will result in far more impacts on the aforementioned neighborhoods, and on Main Street, Broadway, and other streets and neighborhoods, than impacts from the 2525 N. Main Street apartment project. Please consider this request (and the concerns and remedies described below) on behalf of the thousands of residents who desire safer, and quieter neighborhoods. Yours truly, Jeff Dickman 1218 N. French Street 714 240 0883 COMMUNITY CONCERNS Concern #1. Community wants One Broadway Plaza to include Affordable Housing City Council 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. City Council'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 3