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From:Yvonne Flores, ARM To:eComment Cc: Subject:200 N. Main Street - Application No. 2018-18 Date:Thursday, April 04, 2019 12:40:58 PM Dear Historical Commission, As a Board Member for Downtown Inc., a resident, and business owner of Santa Ana, I am truly proud of the Downtown area and all that it offers to businesses, residents, and guests alike and I'm so happy to know that Swinerton is moving their offices to Santa Ana as it shows that our Downtown area is growing and changing in order to attract such large companies as Swinerton to the area. I'm especially thrilled they are moving from Irvine to Santa Ana - that's a true win for Santa Ana and for us all. I want to personally welcome Swinerton to the area and as neighbors, because that's what we are, we are both business and residential neighbors now. Swinerton is a huge company and I anticipate upwards of 60 employees will be working at this site, and with that understanding, I have several concerns as to the lot that is granted in perpetuity to both the Builders Exchange Building and the Santa Ana Lofts as the right of easement. I would like to gently ask that Swinerton take extra measures to ensure the parking lot is regularly cleaned as we have new problems now that they are the owners and the parking lot is left unattended and people have been partying at all hours of the night in the parking lot. I know this is a temporary problem, but it is a problem with broken glass, and other undesirable items being discarded in the parking area because it is being left unattended. I own, work, and live in the my loft located at and am concerned that we will lose our parking adjacent to our building as each of the 16 units here in the Santa Ana Lofts have regularly used the curbside parking for the past 8 to 9 years and should be 'grand-fathered into these plans." I had read in the CUP that the builder of the Santa Ana Lofts was to provide 1.5 parking spaces for every 1 (one) bedroom built in the Santa Ana Lofts and if we lost access to this parking, the Santa Ana Lofts would not meet the CUP set forth by the city. I noticed the Swinerton renderings do not accurately reflect the use of parking at this curb and do not show parked cars at all in the rendering and this concerns me, as the calculations for ingress and egress should include vehicles parked at the curb. I do see that there are certain parking spaces that are specially marked but is not legible because the rendering is reduced to a PDF size. Can you tell me what the special markings are for those parking stalls designated as #34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40, and 41 and if they are reserved for the residents of the Santa Ana Lofts as part of the CUP for the SA Lofts? I noticed these spots are outside of the proposed controlled access gate and I question as to why only the parking stalls closest to the Santa Ana Lofts are designated this way - are these the electric vehicle charging stations, and if so, how will that affect residential living just steps away, if any. Additionally, in the renderings, Swinerton is creating a new entrance in order to be ADA compliant, which I love and is fantastic, but they are leaving the handicap spaces in their existing location rather than actually serving the public by relocating the handicap spaces closest to the entrance so that it would be easier to gain entry. I would recommend that the handicap accessible parking be relocated to stalls # 6, 7, and 8 and as close to the front entrance of the building as possible in order to best serve that community instead of leaving