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T 510.836.4200 I 1939 Harrison Street, Ste. 150 www.lozeaudrury.com <br />F 510.836.4205 Oakland, CA 94612 1 richard@lozeaudrury.com <br />VIA E-MAIL AND US MAIL <br />October 12, 2020 <br />Chair Mark McLoughlin <br />and Commissioners <br />Planning Commission <br />City of Santa Ana <br />20 Civic Center Plaza <br />Santa Ana, CA 92702 <br />eComments()santa-ana.org <br />Ali Pezeshkpour, AICP <br />Project Manager <br />Planning and Building Agency <br />City of Santa Ana <br />20 Civic Center Plaza <br />Santa Ana, CA 92702 <br />APezeshkpour(c)santa-ana.org <br />Minh Thai, Executive Director <br />City of Santa Ana <br />Planning and Building Agency I M20 <br />20 Civic Center Plaza <br />Santa Ana, CA 92702 <br />mthai@santa-ana.org <br />Re: Comment on EIR Addendum for 4th & Mortimer Project (SCH NO. <br />2006071100) <br />Chair McLoughlin and Members of the Planning Commission: <br />I am writing on behalf of the Supporters' Alliance for Environmental Responsibility <br />("SAFER"), a California non-profit organization with members living in and around the City <br />of Santa Ana, regarding the 4th & Mortimer Project, proposed to be located on two city <br />blocks at 409 East 4th Street (Block A), and 509 East 4th Street (Block B). ("Project"). Staff <br />contends that the potential environmental effects of the Project have been fully addressed <br />by the Transit Zoning Code Environmental Impact Report certified a decade ago in 2010 <br />("2010 EIR"). Fundamentally, the proposed Project is an entirely different project than <br />was analyzed in 2010 EIR ("2010 Project"). The proposed Project is inconsistent with the <br />zoning, massing and land use analyzed in the 2010 EIR, and therefore requires zone <br />changes. The proposed Project includes greater massing and higher population density <br />than analyzed in the 2010 EIR. Also the Proposed Project fails to incorporate numerous <br />mitigation measures required by the 2010 EIR. The Proposed Project will have several <br />new and different environmental impacts that were not analyzed in the 2010 EIR. Finally, <br />the 2010 EIR recognized that the 2010 Project would have many significant and <br />unmitigated environmental impacts. As such a new draft EIR is required to analyze and <br />mitigate the impacts of the proposed Project. <br />75C-20 <br />