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This business is an existing business in Santa Ana that serves over 60,000 customers ,many of which rely on this business to augment or supply their income. They also have 28 employees, most of whom live in Santa Ana. Additionally, OC Recycling serves 300 local businesses to whom they provide exceptional recycling services, including Home Depot, Walmart, Walgreens, Rite Aide, The US Postal Service, and many others. The business supports countless local vendors who rely on the center for income. Also, on any given month OC Recycling injects in the neighborhood of $1 Million dollars into the local economy. It is completely inappropriate to propose this ordinance and takes a giant step towards pushing businesses out of the City. Please do not support this ordinance but rather direct staff to work with this single applicant under the existing zoning laws which provide the city enough tools to design a project compatible with the neighborhood. Background information on this agenda item: We represent the Landlord and new tenant at 3307 SOUTH MAIN ST. which has been a towing yard for the previous 20 yrs (industrial zoned property) On June 18" a meeting occurred between the OC Recycling tenant, his attorney, Mr. Vince Fregoso and Mr. Ryan Hodge (City attorney). The tenant was given a "green light" on their use of the property and Mr. Fregoso developed a list of remodel items the City required. During the remodel work the neighboring property owner objects to the tenant's legal use of the property and creates the attached flyer and distributes it throughout the neighborhood. Then around July 18th the tenant is told by Mr. Fregoso, while attempting to get final approval for his building permits, that City is withdrawing its previous approval because of resident complaints from the area. Last week we called Vince Fregoso to pin down the city's position: The conversation netted out the following: A permit is required to replace a section of the blacktop with concrete. A demo permit is required to remove the old fencing. They had several complaints from the residents across the street, the residents from the south, and the South Coast Metro Alliance stemming from the flyer distribution. Hence they are worried about noise, traffic, vibration, as well as the fact that they want to review the State Code that deals with recycling. He said nothing about the flyer that had been sent around and which George (property owner) forwarded to us.