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1 <br />Ocampo, Nuvia <br />From:Stephanie Wells <sw.stephwells@gmail.com> <br />Sent:Monday, February 10, 2025 12:32 PM <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 City of Santa Ana Planning Commission, <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 with one change: <br />Storage units are industrial uses. They do not belong in a transit zone. People’s boxes full of stuff cannot <br />ride trains or make use of public transit. Nor do these facilities address our housing shortage or promote a <br />healthy street-business interface. <br /> <br />Remove the CUP exemption for storage units that was lobbied for by Extra Space Storage from this plan. <br /> <br />The health and safety of our community, especially our children and families, should remain a top <br />priority, and the industrial uses in the zone are eroding the quality of life for us residents. I moved to <br />Santa Ana in 2021 and in just 3.5 years of living in this city my asthma symptoms have returned. My <br />last asthma attack was 21 years ago. But ever since I started walking our dog in the neighborhood <br />I’ve noticed difficulty in breathing again and had to ask the doctor for an inhaler as back up. My dog <br />has gotten sick when accidentally eating things off the ground. It feels unhygienic and scary to walk in <br />my own neighborhood. I feel unsafe to walk alone. There are smells, loud machinery noises, and <br />debrees on the streets that can hurt our pets, children, elders, and even our cars as we drive over it. I <br />am disappointed. I invested in Santa Ana by purchasing a home in 2021, I am the process of plannjng <br />for a new small business in Santa Ana and I constantly rally and try to give Santa Ana positive market <br />exposure but I need the city’s help to make this neighborhood better. <br />Metal recyclers and waste dumps have no place 200 feet away from an elementary school, and a <br />crematorium has no place around the corner from homes and a neighborhood park. These types of <br />industries bring noise, air pollution, and health risks that are incompatible with the residential and <br />transit-oriented development we are working to build. The City Council has twice agreed unanimously <br />that industrial uses in this zone have placed an inequitable environmental and health burden on those <br />of us in the Logan and Lacy neighborhoods. The General Plan adopted by the City Council in 2022 <br />compels you to address these inequities by approving the proposed amendments. <br />Please do not allow outside business interests to override the concerns of the approximately 10,000 <br />residents who live here and deal with these health and safety concerns everyday. <br />Sincerely, <br />Stephanie <br />Resident of Santa Ana <br />  <br />Planning Commission 1 – 172 3/6/2025 <br />