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<br />Orozco, Norma <br />From:Sandra Pocha Peña <pocha@pocharte.com> <br />Sent:Tuesday, April 20, 2021 11:36 AM <br />To:Sarmiento, Vicente; Phan, Thai; Penaloza, David; Lopez, Jessie; Bacerra, Phil; <br />Hernandez, Johnathan; Mendoza, Nelida <br />Cc:Ridge, Kristine; Macedonio, Margarita; McCann, Melanie; Vazquez, Sylvia; <br />selicad@yahoo.com; Ginelle Gmail Hardy; irmapj@yahoo.com; dickmanaj@att.net; <br />Alberta AOL Christy; mike@tardifsheetmetal.com; Gomez, Daisy <br />Subject:HISTORIC FIRE STATION AP# 404-102-06 - City Council Closed Session - Item 3 - <br />April 20, 2021 <br />Attachments:Cypress Fire Station.docx; SELECTED CYPRESS FIRE HOUSE CORRESPONDENCE.docx <br />Importance:High <br /> <br />Dear Santa Ana Mayor and City Council, <br /> <br />I am writing to request that you delay the sale of the historic Cypress Fire Station and reconsider <br />disposing of this property. <br /> <br />Attached is a petition signed by myself and 14 Santa Ana Residents requesting that you retain the <br />Fire Station as a publicly held property and transform it into a Digital Library and History Center. <br /> <br />My Pacific Park neighborhood has no other historic properties where our residents can convene to <br />celebrate our collective cultural legacy and receive much-needed access to technology. Once the <br />property is sold, it's potential to serve our residents will be lost forever. <br /> <br />Even if the prospective buyer promises to rehab the property, in all likelihood he will turn around and <br />sell this $600,000 property to a private entity and make well over a million dollars in <br />profit. <br /> <br />It's not right that years of advocacy by an underserved community for the adaptive reuse of a publicly <br />held property be ignored, only to allow it to decay, and then sell it to private party who will make a <br />huge profit off it. <br /> <br />Where is the community benefit in this? <br /> <br />Our Pacific Park neighborhood was never even the opportunity to put any conditions into the RFP, <br />because our countless requests for active involvement and forming of a Steering Committee were <br />ignored. <br /> <br />By contrast, in neighboring cities like Fullerton, residents requests for adaptive reuse of historic sites <br />are honored. The City of Fullerton listened to it's resident concerns about their historic Hunt Library <br />and removed it from the Surplus Property list, formed an Ad-Hock committee to save it, and using a <br />$2 million dollar State Library Fund secured by Assembly member Sharon Quark-Silva, is now <br />rehabbing the old Hunt Library as a Literary and Art Center. <br /> <br />We can do the same for the Cypress Street Fire Station! <br />1 <br /> <br />