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1 <br />Ocampo, Nuvia <br />From:Kelly Kraus-Lee <kellyakraus@gmail.com> <br />Sent:Monday, February 10, 2025 10:31 AM <br />To:eComments, PBA <br />Subject:Support for Transit Zoning Code/Specific Development No. 84 (SD-84) Update <br />Follow Up Flag:Follow up <br />Flag Status:Flagged <br /> Attention: This email originated from outside of City of Santa Ana. Use caution when opening attachments or links. <br />Dear Planning Commission, <br /> <br />I am writing as a resident of the Transit Zoning Code area to strongly urge you to approve the <br />amendments to the TZC. The industrial uses in the zone, including the dump, crematorium, tow truck <br />business and metal recycling facility, are eroding the quality of life for us residents. I have entire <br />streets I cannot walk or drive down because of these businesses. People are loitering around the <br />metal recycling facility all day, stripping metal and doing drugs. Multiple pleas to the business owner <br />have fallen on deaf ears. The dump trucks line up on Poinsettia, blocking access to my neighborhood <br />and the local school all day while polluting the air. Tow trucks and semi trucks speed down the <br />streets, ignoring stop signs and endangering the lives of residents, including children walking to/from <br />Garfield Elementary School. <br />You are going to hear a lot from "responsible business owners" who are "loyal members of the community," but <br />don't let them fool you. These business owners are nowhere to be seen when needing to address the multitude of <br />quality of life issues their businesses create everyday. They do not actually live here, they just extract resources <br />and leave a fog of pollution before they get on the 5 freeway to return to their families in another city. There are <br />approximately 10,000* people who live in the TZC and the city needs to listen to us, not outside business <br />owners. This is one of the most densely populated neighborhoods in the city, why should us residents unduly <br />bear the negative impacts on our city by industrial businesses? <br />Sincerely, <br />Kelly Kraus-Lee <br />Resident of Santa Ana <br />*10,000 resident estimate is based on press release from city (linked below) which states that the <br />TZC is approximately 450 acres (.7 square miles) and that “Lacy and Logan are more densely <br />populated than Santa Ana as a whole, with a combined population density of 15,531.7 persons per <br />square mile.” <br />https://www.santa-ana.org/city-of-santa-ana-moves-to-protect-oldest-neighborhoods-from-industrial- <br />pollution-under-historic-environmental-justice-initiative/ <br /> <br />  <br />Planning Commission 1 – 165 3/6/2025 <br />