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Subject: One Broadway Plaza - PUBLIC COMMENT – PLEASE READ ALOUD DURING PUBLIC HEARING
RE: Plan Amendment No. 2020-01 and Zoning Ordinance Amendment No. 2020-02
Deborah Hicks-DeBach
2629 Santiago Street
Santa Ana, CA 92706
City of Santa Ana
Planning Commission
April 1, 2020
Gentlemen:
I am writing to address your apparent approval for the project known as One Broadway Plaza.
Once again you are considering changing the General Plan and Zoning Ordinance to allow residential use within a business use entitled zone. This is a 37-story nightmare for our city.
Because the people of Santa Ana approved the project in its current state, it must have another vote by those same people to make any changes to the construction terms.
I am not sure what reality you are currently living in, but I would most certainly not wish to be trapped in a 37 story building during a pandemic such as we are experiencing right now.
Even though Santa Ana is the most populous city in Orange County, we have a different type of density. Just read about people in New York and San Francisco who are struggling just to
escape their buildings without becoming contaminated by the COVID-19 virus. Santa Ana is not nor should it become a high-density city. It is your job to make sure that doesn’t happen.
Single-family homes and schools, all of which depend on the surrounding surface streets to move throughout the city, populate the area surrounding this project. The traffic created by
this project alone would choke our ability to move in our own city. I would have no problem with a 15 story building on this site, but the height and scope of this is ridiculous.
Where is the infrastructure to support this? The Main Place project, approved by the City and surrounding neighborhoods, will suffer.
If it is your goal as planners to continue down the road of encouraging out of town developers to purchase our city and its quality of life, then you are on the right track.
Please use some common sense here and deny this project in its current form. There is a better plan and it is up to you to find it. That is your job.
Sincerely,
Deborah Hicks-DeBach
Robert A. DeBach