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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 /> <br />Pacific Park / Eastside is a very underserved community and greatly in need of a Digital Library and <br />Technology Center. It would dramatically transform the blighted area where the Cypress Fire Station <br />is located. An adaptive reuse of the Fire Station would greatly benefit our residents Young and Old. <br /> <br />We need to retain and restore this property for public use. <br /> <br />Please read through the petition and correspondence I have attached and see for yourself the <br />tremendous amount of resident support there is for a public rehab of the Cypress Fire Station and the <br />diligent advocacy our resident leaders have made to save this Key Historic Building located in the <br />heart of Santa Ana. <br /> <br />Thank you for your consideration. <br /> <br />Sincerely, <br /> <br />-- SPS <br /> -- <br />Sandra "Pocha" Peña Sarmiento <br />Pacific Park / Eastside <br />www.pocharte.com <br />www.ocfilmfiesta.org <br />714.417.0073 <br /> <br /> <br />2 <br />