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Flores, Dora From: Stephanie Wells < Sent: Tuesday, April 1, 2025 3:16 PM To: eComment Subject: Support for Item 22 Attention: This email originated from outside of City of Santa Ana. Use caution when opening attachments or links. Dear Mayor Amezcua and Members of the City Council, I am writing as a resident and future business owner of the Transit Zoning Code to express my strong support for the proposed amendments to the SD-84 zoning code, specifically the removal of the M1 and M2 industrial use overlay with one change: Storage units are industrial uses. They do not belong in a transit zone nor do these facilities address our housing shortage or promote a healthy street -business interface. I ask that you Remove the CUP exemption for storage units that was lobbied for by Extra Space Storage from this plan. These amendments are a long -overdue fix to the decades of incompatible land uses in the Lacy and Logan neighborhood and are needed even more now that the neighborhoods are changing and bringing in more residential at higher price. I appreciate that the proposed amendments will not force out any existing businesses currently operating within the affected areas. Rather, they will create flexibility for business owners to sell their business and for property owners to re -tenet their buildings with a broad range of businesses. This will allow for business owners to continue to positively contribute to the neighborhood and prevent vacant buildings. These amendments also provide the city with an essential tool to address the bad actors who are negatively affecting the quality of life in the neighborhood, such as the dump and metal recycling facilities next to Garfield Elementary School. With these amendments, we can better encourage responsible business ownership, ultimately improving the quality of life for residents and business owners alike. Furthermore, the health and safety of our community, especially our children and families, should remain a top priority, and the industrial uses in the zone are eroding the quality of life for us residents. I feel unsafe to walk alone. There are smells, loud machinery noises, and debrees on the streets that can hurt our pets, children, elders, and even our cars as we drive over it. I am disappointed. I invested in Santa Ana by purchasing a home in 2021, 1 am the process of planning for a new small business in Santa Ana and I constantly rally and try to give Santa Ana positive market exposure but I need the city's help to make this neighborhood better. Metal recyclers and waste dumps have no place 200 feet away from an elementary school, and a crematorium has no place around the corner from homes and a 1