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Mitre - Ramirez, Norma From: Magallon, Becky Sent: Wednesday, June 18, 2014 8:30 AM To: Huizar, Maria Subject: FW: [Santiago-Lofts] The Depot at Santiago Project Another letter that went into junk mail. Becky From: John Lai [mailto:karmanorange @gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2014 4:25 PM To: Magallon, Becky Cc: Frank Thompson; Sean Coolidge; Isaac Norton Subject: Re: [Santiago—Lofts] The Depot at Santiago Project To: The Mayor and City Counsel Members of Santa Ana C /O: Ms. Becky Magallon, Executive Assistant, City Manager's Office My name is John Lai, home owner / resident in the City of Santa Ana. The opinions expressed by Mr Isaac Norton represents mine fully. I am OPPOSED to the Depot of Santiago project as presented. Thank you for your time and consideration. Best Regards John Lai 733 Poinsettia Street Santa Ana On Tue, Jun 17, 2014 at 3:11 PM, Isaac Norton <inortondesign&gmail.com> wrote: To: The Mayor and City Counsel Members of Santa Ana C /O: Ms. Becky Magallon, Executive Assistant, City Manager's Office I'm writing to express opposition to the Depot at Santiago Project as presented. I currently serve as Secretary for the Santiago Street Lofts HOA. The HOA Board is also opposed to this project as presented, as are all members of the community we've heard from thus far. Here are some of our concerns as well as demands: 1. We are not opposed to affordable housing per se, we are opposed to concentrating all or most of it in one neighborhood (ours) without a master plan. 1. Our Logan neighborhood is a racially diverse community of working class and working professionals. Framing this as a race or class issue is Race - baiting and is despicable. We have invested in this community. We are the stakeholders. However well meaning, advocates who do not live here are not stakeholders. They will not have to deal with any problems this project will create once it's built, we will.