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I Having said that, five years from now hopefully
<br />Thank you.
<br />2 some of us will see the train go by and they'll go "Wow, I
<br />2 Next slide.
<br />3 didn't know they were going to do a train." So I wanted
<br />3 We have the environmental assessment, and I'm
<br />4 you to know that will still happen even though we tried
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<br />4 going to put the books over here with this our
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<br />5 everything possible to get the word out.
<br />5 looking gentleman and if you want to thumb through it you
<br />6 So we'll go ahead and get started. I think that
<br />6 can. if not, you can pass it around. But, again, I want
<br />7 I'll talk while the screen is going on and I don't want you
<br />7 you to feel how much work was done on this project in terms
<br />8 to look at me, look at the screen, because otherwise if I
<br />8 of the assessment, the environmental review is very, very
<br />9 stand in front of it it will be very hard for you to see
<br />9 substantial, millions of dollars in fire making so we worked
<br />10 it. So we'll go ahead and start. !i
<br />10 really hard to cover all the different options and the
<br />I1 We want to welcome everybody to the meeting.
<br />11 environmental impact. If you wart to read the report
<br />12 And, of course, the purpose today is to give you
<br />12 there's lots of ways to do it. You can go to Public Works
<br />13 information abort the street car project, tell you that
<br />13 with the City of Santa Ana, you can go to the city clerk's
<br />14 Chen are other meetings and where the locations am for
<br />l4 office, you can go to the public library, you can go to
<br />15 the environmental assessment, and a draft Environmental
<br />15 Rostra Party you can go to the train station here in Santa
<br />16 Impact Report and then how to submit comments, well talk
<br />16 Ana, you can go to Garden Grove and get a copy there or you
<br />17 Co you about how to do [hat.
<br />17 can go to Orange County Transportation Authority, they have
<br />is We really want your input, that's why these
<br />18 a copy there, or you can from the luxury of your home or
<br />19 meetings are so important. We've been at this for several
<br />19 Starbncks or anywhere else you can get it online,
<br />20 years mid I do -- do we have a copy of the report?
<br />20 santaanatransitvision.com, the full report is there.
<br />21 UNIDENTIFIED SPEAKER: Yes, we do.
<br />21 We, as I mentioned earlier, have been working
<br />22 CITY MANAGER CAVAZOS: Can you bring it over to me?
<br />22 hard on this for many years. In 2006 the Board approved
<br />23 And we had a meeting on Saturday, today of course
<br />23 Measure M, was a local sales tax for transportation, and of
<br />24 we're having a meeting this morning and then we have
<br />24 course that's a partnership between Orange County Transit
<br />25 another one on Thursday, Thursday night.
<br />25 Authority mid local cities within Orange County and the
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<br />1 goal was to foster transit connectivity and extend the
<br />2 reach of Metrolink and to took at those projects that were
<br />I feasibility to define the transit vision for Santa Ana and
<br />3 best suited for flooding. There were 35 projects submitted,
<br />2 Garden Grove and to move into the second step. And so in
<br />4 31 of them involved buses and shuttles, four of them
<br />3 earnest the alternative analysis and environmental review
<br />4 started in the fall of 2009 with meetings like this,
<br />5 involved rail, the two that were selected were the Anaheim
<br />5 getting people's input, and where do you want the route,
<br />6 project and the Santa Ana-Garden Grove project.
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<br />6 where most people need transit, And based on all of that
<br />7 When I went over to OCTA to meet with the board
<br />7 the alternatives were identified for further study in the
<br />8 there and the staff, I looked at the vision and will tell
<br />8 fall of 2012 after three years of analysis.
<br />9 you that every single part of the vision has been achieved
<br />9 This is the study area. I wanted to make sure
<br />10 with the exception of one major area and that's light rail
<br />10 everybody had the boundaries; 17th Street/Westminster on
<br />11 or street car. So this is the final step in achieving the
<br />11 the north, First Street on the south, Grand Avenue on the
<br />12 vision for OCTA which is to include the street car or light
<br />12 east and Harbor Boulevard on the west, about 4.1 miles
<br />13 rail.
<br />13 total for the study area.
<br />14 How many people here take the bus? All right. I
<br />14 We did look at alternatives; namely the bus, bus
<br />15 took the bus for nine years when I was starting my career.
<br />15 rapid transit and of course the street car and there's
<br />16 And the reason I took the bus is because I couldn't afford
<br />16 pictures of each or those types of alternatives listed
<br />17 a car, real simple. And then one day I got a car and never
<br />17 there. And we looked at several alternatives. The first
<br />18 took the bus again. But later on in my career when the
<br />18 alternative has some benefits. We believe it serves the
<br />19 train was available, I had a car but I took the train. So
<br />19 greatest number of transit dependent households. It has
<br />20 I always tell people when they ask me wiry did I take the
<br />20 the highest daily ridership, it has the lowest operations
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<br />21 train or the bus, I took the bus because I had to, I took
<br />21 and maintenance cost and we believe that the land use best
<br />22 the train because I wanted to and there's a big difference.
<br />22 supports this type of transit.
<br />23 And I really believe that a train or a light rail system
<br />23 There are some challenges in that it could impact
<br />24 has many major, major benefits for people.
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<br />some on -street parking. Romember, though, when you have
<br />25 parking, that's because people are coming there with cars.
<br />25 The first part of the study was to look at the
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