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Orozco, Norma From: Leonel Flores <Ieonel.flores40@yahoo.com> Sent: Monday, June 05, 2023 12:51 PM To: eComment Subject: Agenda Item 53 Good Afternoon, I am reaching out today regarding item#53 for the City Council Meeting Agenda of Tuesday June 6th, 2023. As a resident of the Madison Park Neighborhood, I ask you to protect the public safety of the community and reject the conditional use permit 2023-09 for the following reasons. 1. The establishment is openly and publicly violating their type 41 ABC License. If you look them up on Instagram here: https://instagram.com/hectors_on_mcfadden?igshid=MzRIODBiNWFIZA==, they are openly promoting their "$10 Palomas" and "Cantaritos", alcoholic beverages that use Tequila as their base ingredient. The city should revoke their operational permit for disregarding the conditions of their permit. 2. This establishment promotes itself to the city council as a "Family Friendly" restaurant, but if you look them up on maps or google they appear as a "Bar" or "Cantina". Typically bars and cantinas are not for family or children, and if so, will this establishment be inviting in and serving alcohol to minors? We do not want a Culichi town incident in our neighborhood with drunken drivers and intoxicated minors. 3. The restaurant is 300 feet from Kennedy Elementary School, and less than 1,000 feet from Madison Elementary and Century High School. The establishment also shares a wall with a densely populated apartment complex, there are more apartments across the street, and there is a future park planned as well. 4. There is a variety of public safety issues and crime that have not been resolved in this shopping center, and allowing them to operate later and to sell hard licor will only add another burden to our communities. Issues include trash, public urination, loitering, graffiti, and last year there was a large brawl where someone was stabbed in the parking lot outside this restaurant. Last week someone was stabbed in front of Kennedy Elementary demonstrating how present these problems are in our community. It would be unjust for the community to have to live with an additional burden associated with more alcohol consumption. 5. The staff report states this promotes diverse types of commercial businesses in the area, but if approved it will be the 4th business in this shopping mall selling alcohol. 3 of them right next to each other. This looks like an unbalanced promotion of alcohol sales in our community with no regard for public safety. 6. In our October 2022 neighborhood association meeting, we asked Corporal Quijas what could be done about the issues at this shopping mall, and she said if the business owners do not want to file charges, PD can not intervene. It is clear the business owners have not resolved the loitering and the issues associated with it. Now it also appears as though the SAPD has no authority and is powerless to the will of the businesses. 7. A protected bike lane on Standard is in the future for the city, and Main Street is not too far away. We do not need more drunk drivers in our neighborhood or cars flying into barriers, 1