Correspondence - #22 - Response to Late Comments

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Letter CC4: Louis Steers (2 pages) Late Comment letter Flores, Dora From: Louis Steers < Sent: Monday, September 16, 2024 3:13 PM To: eComment Subject: Agenda Item #22 Attention: This email originated from outside of City of Santa Ana. Use caution when opening attachments or links. I strongly urge a non approval of various entitlements to facilitate the establishment of a new Specific Plan (SP) and construction of new, mixed use urban village for the following concerns: 1. Current congestion on Bristol and MacArthur and to my knowledge no plan to widen current streets. This project will cause more traffic issues for the residents residing in neighborhoods around the proposed urban village. 2. The proposed tenants of the urban village will take away the "affordable" shopping for current neighborhood residents and favor more upscale establishments and discriminate against the current population of the neighborhood. In addition it will cause an increase in vehicle traffic as residents commute to the stores in their price range. 3. The village's proposed 3750 residential units, 200 units of senior continuum of care living, 250 room key hotel and the 350,000 square feet of commercial space is astronomical increase of population on the proposed site which the 13.1 acres of publicly accessible open space does not remediate 4. Although Independent this urban village is parallel to the other "village" planned for Bear and Sunflower with increased housing and office space which will further increase traffic congestion on McArthur, Bristol, Bear and Sunflower. I encourage all planning commission and council members to physically be present in the neighborhood and see what I am addressing. Backed up traffic getting on to freeways on Bear and commute traffic coming off the freeways on both Bear and Bristol. 0 CC4.1