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With respect to the title of our property at 2383 N. Flower St: Documented within the Recorder's Office is the 1931 Final Judgment in the case of City of Santa Ana vs. Restop Realty Company, which memorializes then -existing railroad right-of-ways relative to our property, and which would account for the lingering (but obviously no longer necessary) existence of this 2383 N. Flower -adjacent alley easement. Ms. Newton's contention -- that she should be entitled to some portion of the subject 2383 N. Flower alleyway easement -- is misplaced: As reflected on Tract No. 754 map our property at 2383 N. Flower and the adjacent alleyway comprises the southernmost portion in Tract No. 754 -- the Newton property is not even a part of Tract No. 754; in fact, that Newton tract/property was developed more than a decade later in 1937, and belongs to an entirely separate Tract No.1035. I would hope that Ms. Newton's (as well as the Varciags') failure to bring to your attention the operative 1925 Tract No. 754 map as well as the fact that Ms. Newton's property has had no relationship at any time to Tract No. 754 (or the subject alleyway easement) was one of mere oversight. And lest anyone give even a moment's credence to the spurious and outright slanderous contention that we in any way forged any writing on the Title Guarantee from Chicago Title, I have (and can furnish, upon Council request) the original transmittal email directly from the Senior Vice President of Chicago Title who personally reviewed this matter before issuing the supplemental title document requested by PWA. As to the issues of crime, vagrancy, and traffic -safety: You need look no further than to the records and recommendations of Santa Ana Police voiced to Public Works --'closing off the alleyway would make the neighborhood safer'-- as well as our video evidence supplied to PWA, in addition to the investigation of PWA itself, which documents the traffic -safety issues existing in and about the impermissibly narrowed alleyway easement, which is not of sufficient width to lawfully permit vehicular travel. And speaking as the homeowners whose living room, dining room, and kitchen open onto this alleyway easement: In the modern world of heightened crime and vagrancy, which we have been repeatedly confronted over these last two years, we are both unnerved by these ongoing happenings which we (as well as adjacent neighbors) have relayed to the police, and we wish for nothing more than the same security that exists at every other home within Floral Park that is not on this alley. Should there be any other information that we may provide to Council relative to this easement vacation, as we have previously done with Public Works, we will of course cooperate so that Council may confidently adopt, based upon facts, its intent to abandon resolution relative to the subject alleyway at the upcoming hearing. Thank you, Caroline La & Colin Donnelly