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Flores, Dora From:Tom Frazier <tcfaqmdgov@gmail.com> Sent:Tuesday, April To:eComment Subject:Non-Agenda Item ONE BROADWAY PLAZA Attention: This email originated from outside of City of Santa Ana. Use caution when opening attachments or links. Dear Mayor and City Council Members, I am writing to you today to express my opposition to the proposed One Broadway Plaza (OBP) project. The proposed project does not benefit or serve the current residents of Santa Ana nor the future Santaneros and would alter the historic landscape and architecture of our city. A 37 story luxury apartment complex/high end commercial development will not serve the overwhelming working class residents of Santa Ana. The 600 plus units, consisting primarily of studio and one bedroom apartments, will be unaffordable to the vast majority of our population. The Five Star roof-top restaurants, the "Tavern on the Green", and a Whole Foods style grocery store would be out of reach and not benefit the current neighborhoods of Willard, French Park, Lacy, Logan, and French Court. I strongly encourage all of you to walk these neighborhoods and discuss their feelings on this matter. Further, the families and students of the schools in close proximity to the OBP proposed project should be interviewed and have their concerns taken into consideration. OBP would not appear to serve the future residents of Santa Ana and would likely only benefit the people able to afford to occupy the tower. Despite Harrah's dream of appealing to the Irvine and Newport Coast residents for relocating to OBP, the obvious future demographic of Santa Ana is going to continue to be majority latino and working class. It would be difficult for the 600 plus residents of the tower to sufficiently support the proposed businesses on the project site let alone benefiting businesses in downtown. The historic landscape and architecture of Santa Ana would be compromised by the OBP project. The 37 story glass tower would dwarf our landmark water tower - reaching a height nearly three times as high. The proposed 2,400 space-8 story-above ground parking structure would disturb the historic architecture in the area and be an ugly and unwelcoming eye sore to the entrance to the downtown district (take a look at the parking structures north of the 22 freeway near Grand Ave. that serve the hospital complex and the parking structure off of the 57 freeway near Katella Ave. for an idea of what this might look like). The One Broadway Plaza tower is essentially a middle finger to the surrounding neighborhoods and to the city as a whole. I am all for responsible development - the OBP is not a project that would benefit our city. Do you want this tower to be your legacy? Remember your Santa Ana roots. Vote this project down if and when it is presented to you and push for responsible city serving developments. Thanks. Tom Frazier Ward 3 60 plus resident of Santa Ana 35 year Union member (Retired Teamster) 1