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Name: JA ���� Imp4 Vi0.Y <br />Address <br />Phone: <br />Email: <br /> <br />Date: August2,2023 <br />Re: Clty Council Hearing on Augunl5,2023 <br />Objection to Application for Abandonment of certain easement/right of way located at 2383 N. <br />Flower Street, Santa Ana, CA; IAbeadonment No. 202"1); Applicants Colin Donnelly and <br />Carolina La <br />Dear Mayor and City Council: <br />We amresidentsat the above address. We have been residents at said address since <br />IT s % . We understand that there has been an Application to Abandon the alleyway <br />located between 2379 and 2383 North Flower Street' Sand Ana, CA, our neighborhood alleyway. <br />We strongly am opposed to the reverting of sold property as stated on Applicant's application for the <br />followingrcasons <br />1. Host, we do not believe share was ever an easement for old alleyway, It Is a dedicated roadway. <br />We AM091Y believe that alley is a PUBLIC ROADWAY. We strongly object to the fact that the <br />City of5and Is Intending an GIFTING PUBLIC FUNDS to the Applicants. The alleyway belongs to <br />the People. We are of the opinion that gating of public hinds for free Is illegal. The valve of said <br />"gift" could possibly be worth hundreds of mouse cols of dollars taken from our community. <br />2. We believe the Sitting of said land increases the Applioaotd property by approximately 1,150 sq. <br />ft of prime property in Santa Ana. <br />3. We object to the had that am community was not informed properly of the Applicants' <br />application W have the property "reverted" to 2383 North Flower. That Propertyls a PUBLIC <br />ROADWAY —there Is nothing to-mwrt". We, the people, are deserving of proper Notice. <br />d. We object that the Applicants intend on having a wall built to block the alleyway so no one has <br />aaoem to that public madway. This Is our community; the luation of this property is not for <br />Individual use. We never agreed to give the property to anyone. This affeywaywlll he closed for <br />public use should you appmve this Application. <br />5. We also object to the fad that our neighbors adjacent scold alleyway on Hellormae will be <br />restricted and inconvenienced bymid closure of this alleyway. Theydo not have driveways, so <br />they mustaccentheir,wagesvia the alleyway. Those neighbors have legal rights to full access <br />to this alleyway. It also creates a dangerous driving condition in that people may have to back <br />up onto Heliotrope H a car is mining down the alley. <br />6. The residence located at 2379 North Flower will also be greatly Impacted if this "revemrg" is <br />approved. This is rlotan easement, it Ise dedicated roadway, nothing to "revert". The property <br />ownerat 2379 also has rights, as do we. <br />7. Said alleyway has been therefor 100 years) The Applicants have owned their residence at 2383 <br />N.Flowerfor22months. Weloveourneighborhoodjustasitiywedonat dtodow <br />alleyways for Individuals who have notgiven thought Wow community. <br />S. Additional verbiage has been added to the legal description of Applicants' application. <br />Applicants are claiming the alleyway belongs to them, and thus, want the alleyway "reverted". <br />This NEW Ianguagejust appeared out of nowhere. The City must review all ORIGINAL maps and <br />records to disprove this claim. <br />9. We also believe that alley way property was DEDICATED to the City of Sand Are by prior <br />owners of said land/akeyway in the year 1925, and not as an easement over the Applir ms' <br />property at 2383 N. Flower. <br />1D. We are adamant and herewith request that the City of Sand Ana ehher take the matter oN <br />calendar for further review by the City Attorney and/or any Other departments needed to <br />establish Bald ownership ofthat property or that the City Council abolish all further discussion <br />onthismamerarddrminatemld Application with no further discusson. Wepreferthelsdor. <br />Thank youln adva h urcanslderetion Into this matter. Wewishdbecominteddlrectlybytbe <br />Cary wkh any dells made this Application. Our trontradlnknnationisnotetl above. Thankyou <br />foryour time and you Oros) jetting this Application. <br />BY <br />