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February 15, 2001 Mr. Dan Bott Environmental Cpordinator CITY OF SANTA ANA Planning and Building Agency 20 Civic Center Plaza Santa Ana, CA 92701 P&D Environmental A Division of P&D Consultants 999 TOWN 6 COUNTRY ROAD, 4TN FLOOR ORANGE, CALIFORNIA 92868 714/835-4447 714/953-6989 FAX ww w. p d c o n s u l t a n t s. c o m SUBJECT: REVISED BUDGET FOR ONE BROADWAY PLAZA EIR Dear Dan, As you know, P&D has consistently sought to cooperate with the City on the One Broadway Project in the past and, until recently, has been working on an accelerated schedule using the project applicant's limited site plans to prepare the project EIR. The unfortunate need for P&D to assume preparation of the project traffic study part way into the planning process resulted in our absorption of $9,000 in costs and for PBQ&D to absorb $8,000 in costs. However, both firms were willing to absorb these costs in order to keep the project EIR and trafficstudy moving. We do not intend to try to recover these costs, but will absorb them since we agreed with the City to work with the previous traffic subcontractor in the first place. As you requested, I have compiled the following list of out of scope work completed by P&D on the One Broadway Plaza project. This work has been prepared in response to specific requests by City staff in order to provide additional studies necessary to complete the EIR for the One Broadway Plaza project. The funds to complete this work were transferred from budget allocations for later EIR tasks. As a result there are insufficient funds remaining in the budget to complete the EIR process. Also addressed in this letter is additional work deemed necessary to complete the EIR due to the changes in the project including the relocation of the parking garage and the addition of a heliport on top of the project office building. As you know, the garage as now designed will impact an additional historic building along Broadway Street due to the garage exit onto Broadway Street. The footprint of the garage has also been expanded onto a portion of Sycamore Street adjacent to the project site. The heliport would create noise impacts on land uses adjacent to the project site and along its approach path and may potentially interfere with planes accessing local airports. Changes will need to be made to the various sections of the EIR to reflect these revisions to the parking garage plan and the new heliport. ADDITIONAL WORK ON THE PROJECT EIR PREVIOUSLY APPROVED BY THE CITY A memo dated April 26, 2000 from the City authorized P&D to spend an additional $7,000 from the One Broadway Plaza EIR budget to study the impacts that the Orange County High School of the Arts (High School of the Arts) would have on cumulative projects that were to be considered .? I EXHIBIT A