55F - RESO - FIRST ST APARTMENTS

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First Street Apartments Project Relocation Plan II. ASSESSMENT OF RELOCATION NEEDS A. SURVEY METHOD To obtain information necessary for the preparation of this Plan, personal interviews with the business owners to be permanently displaced were conducted in March, April and July 2015 by OPC staff. Based on information provided by the property owner, property manager, and the business owners and collected via on -site inspections and interviews, there are ten business tenants on the Project site and a cell tower. The interviewer was successful in obtaining survey responses from all 11 Project site occupants identified to OPC staff. In addition, the property manager of the site (with full knowledge of the property owner) lives with two or three others in one of the office units and uses the common exterior hallway restrooms. The data in this section of the Plan are based solely on the unsubstantiated responses of those individuals who participated in the survey. Inquiries made of the commercial occupants pertained to the type and description of the business, number of employees, annual revenues, specialty equipment, permits and licenses, hours of operation, special needs related to the relocation of the business, and preferred area to relocate. Inquiries made of the residential occupants concerned household size and composition, income, rent and utilities payments, length of occupancy, ethnicity, home language, physical disabilities, legal presence status, and replacement housingpreferences. B. FIELD SURVEY DATA - COMMERCIAL 1. Current Occupants There are ten commercial occupants on the Project site with operating businesses consisting of six non - profit religious organizations, two medical /health care providers, an employment agency and a music production/classes business. The business owners rent spaces ranging from 800 SF - 11,000 SF. Current rental rates range from $0.29 /SF - $1.29 /SF on the Project site. All of the businesses are currently on month to month leases. There is also a cell tower on the site. Statistics provided by the business owners indicate the total number of full -time and part- time employees (not including the owners) impacted by the Project is approximately 31, and there are approximately 17 volunteers that assist several of the businesses on the Project site as well. There were no special replacement site requirements for the businesses stated by the owners other than their desire to remain in the Santa Ana area on a site with adequate meeting /office space, restrooms and adequate parking. The businesses should easily be able to relocate into alternate commercial spaces. 55F -12