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Orozco, Norma From:Irma Jauregui <irmapj@yahoo.com> Sent:Tuesday, May 18, 2021 3:46 PM To:eComment Subject:Cypress Fire house and community Honorable Mayor and Council members We The Santa Ana Neighborhood Alliance ask that you please reconsider the sale of the Firehouse on Cypress and look to the future of the great possibilities of benefitting our community with it. The opportunities it can provide are so many and here are some of the concepts that we have starting working on. First and foremost, crime has been a serious issue for many, many years! Since there are 4000 Sq ft, at least dedicate the back 1000sq ft. for a police substation and since there is an alley there, the access is perfect for their use. I have already approached the brokers for the dollar store if they would be open for parking for a community center if we had a police substation and they were very open and enthusiastic to the idea, and as a matter of fact they have space for rent, that maybe it might serve in the interim substation to get crime under control while repairs and designs are being made. For the other 75% of the building, there are so many great uses! Since the pandemic we have seen what a great need for technology there is city wide but especially in our densest neighborhoods and Pacific Park is one of them. A BiblioTech would be one ideal use combined with tutoring for all ages and opportunities for seniors at designated hours! When all this is said and done our area would go thru a positive and wonderful transformation! The side benefits for the future residents will just increase if crime is eliminated and even the shopping center and general commercial area could also flourish. On the contrary, if you sell to a private investor who will be the only one benefitting, even if the exterior is “protected” and converted into residential of one of the densest neighborhoods, the commercial area in front with its crime elements will continue as it has been for decades and our children and residents in general will stay the same, even worse since more density is added and not any more services at all! I know it’s a long letter, but it’s a big vision that we have and it’s so, so doable because we also worked on the Pacific Park, that is our pride and joy, and we avoided the disaster of the Normandy shelter that would have destroyed our businesses and quality of life. We ask most urgently that you look and share our great vision of truly working together for our community and we would love to share in that vision that also can come true that we can feel it! It will be great to help and look for funding from various sources and since their maybe help with opportunity of COVID funding it would be phenomenal to see what can be achieved together. Most respectfully, Irma P Jauregui and Susana Canett Sandoval Santa Ana Healthy Neighborhood Alliance co-founders Sent from my iPad 1