HomeMy WebLinkAbout5 - PUBLIC COMMENT_WELCHFrom:Bernal, Sarah
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Subject:PUBLIC COMMENT_WELCH
Date:Monday, March 23, 2020 9:00:54 AM
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Commissioners:
Please see the below comment for your review and consideration.
Sarah Bernal | Planning Commission Secretary
Planning and Building Agency | 20 Civic Center Plaza | Santa Ana, CA 92701
714-667-2732 | sbernal@santa-ana.org |http://www.santa-ana.org/
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From: Flores, Dora
Sent: Monday, March 23, 2020 8:24 AM
To: Bernal, Sarah <SBernal@santa-ana.org>; Gutierrez, Fatima <fgutierrez10@santa-ana.org>
Subject: FW: Planning Commission One Broadway Plaza
Good Morning,
The following communication pertaining to the Planning Commission meeting, has been received for
your review and consideration.
From: sandy welch [mailto:welch_sandy@yahoo.com]
Sent: Sunday, March 22, 2020 10:44 AM
To: Penaloza, David <DPenaloza@santa-ana.org>;
eComment <ecomment@santa-ana.org>;
VFregosa@santa-ana.org
Subject: Planning Commission One Broadway Plaza
One Broadway Plaza applicant is requesting a change
of land use entitlements for a project that has been
stalled for over 10 years. The studies that were done 15
years ago no longer apply. The city seems to be on a
building spree and with the addition of these new
projects there will a greater impact to the surrounding
neighborhoods than was anticipated in 2004. Primarily
the impact of traffic, that the hundreds of new residents
in these new housing units will create, will have to be
mitigated. Each unit will probably have at least two
automobiles possibly more if multi family members are
drivers. All traveling to and from their place of
employment in addition to everyday living excursions.
I have looked into the number of new projects and the
number of units each will accommodate. And with my
limited research abilities I have counted almost 1000
new units being built in a 2 mile radius.
Bridging the Aqua Housing 317 E. 17th 56 units
Toll Brothers/ First American Title Project 220
units 4th and Main
Legacy Square 93 units 609 Spurgeon
Santa Ana Arts Collective Meta Housing 56 units
1666 N. Main
Mercy House (Xavier Project?) 17 units Garfield
and Lacy
One Broadway Plaza 10th and Broadway 415 units
Also proposed:
888 North Main 125 units
3rd and Broadway 171 units
408-405 E. 4th 133 units
Not to mention the 500 additional units in the 2500
and 2700 blocks of North Main.
This is quite an extensive list and I have not seen a map
of the city indicating the route travelers to and from the
projects will be traversing. Surely the city's traffic
engineers have planned these routes out and have a
master map showing the combined traffic impact.
In addition I attended a meeting in our French Park
Neighborhood to address the roundabouts that are to be
built on Civic Center Boulevard. These will impede
traffic even more and direct cars to the point of least
resistance. Thus directing more cars through the
neighborhood streets to get to and from the freeway.
Drivers who normally travel Civic Center to and from
the city will not travel through 4 roundabout to get to
the freeway. They may do it once or twice but will
certainly find
an easier way and the path of least resistance is through
the neighborhood. When asked how this would be
addressed William Galvez, traffic engineer had no
answer. These problems need to be addressed before
projects are in existence. To tell residents they will just
have to live with the problems these projects create is
unacceptable.
We need help now. We already have traffic speeding
through residential streets disrupting our quality of life
and safety. To add thousands more trips with no plan or
mitigation to lessen the impact is unconscionable and
not what city planning is about.
There are measures that can be taken now and put into
place before a bigger problem is created. This project
should not be fast tracked leaving our neighborhoods
exposed.
The One Broadway Office Tower needs a NEW
Environmental Impact Report addressing the impact
on the French Park, Logan, Lacy, French Court, and
Willard neighborhoods as well as Downtown Santa
Ana. Our nearby neighborhoods to the north will also
be impacted. The 15 year old data is not relevant
considering the current and proposed changes
happening in our city now.
Sandra Welch
French Park Neighborhood
1009 N. French St
Santa Ana 92701