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Mike Tardif 1419 E. 19th St. Santa Ana, CA 92705 RECEIVED MAR 2 62007 Bi\NTP. ANA PlANNING DEPT Feb. 23, 2007 City of Santa Ana Planning Commission 20 Civic Center Plaza Santa Ana, CA 92702 Re: HD Supply (Home Depot) Variance application no. 07-01 Subject property: 1044 E. 4th St. Tardif Sheet Metal: 412 N. Santa Fe St. To the members of the Planning Commission: I am a business and property owner who would be directly effected if the City were to allow this "contractors supply warehouse" to go in at 1044 E. 4th St. I am also a resident of Santa Ana. Concerning the application ofHD Supply (HDS) for a variance from City of Santa Ana parking requirements. HDS will occupy 88,000 square feet. HDS represents that they are applying for a variance as an Industrial business. They are asking for a reduction in the 2 parking space per 1,000 sq. ft. of building space required for an Industrial business. This is a misrepresentation of the true nature of the business they intend to conduct at this location. HD Supply is a retail business. Contained in the HDS bought and paid for parking analysis are direct references to the fact that this type of store caters to "home improvement customers" and "residential customers." It is not substantially different from a regular retail Home Depot home improvement store. This is a retail business it is not Industrial application. As a retail business, HDS home improvement store is required to adhere to the retail requirement of 5 parking spaces per 1,000 square feet of building space. They are providing only a questionable 104 parking spaces when they should be providing the retail requirement of 440 spaces. They are 75% short of the required number of parking spaces for their retail business. HDS and the City, if this variance application is approved, are mandating that the surrounding business and residential community absorb their grossly under allowed parking situation. This area is already severely impacted by a shortage of parking. To ask us to absorb this additional parking burden would be devastating to the community. HD Supply has had months and months of time and tons of high paid professional assistance to prepare their slick and misleading variance application. The property owners, business owners and residents of the area which will be directly effected by their inadequate parking allowance have had less than a week to prepare a response. I am asking the members of the Planning Commission to deny this variance application. Respectfully submitted, , ~/~ Page 3 of 43 31A-70