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Becerra, Alexis From: jordan@jrsissonlaw.com Sent: Monday, September 8, 2025 10:28 AM To: eComment; !City Clerk; Pezeshkpour, Ali; Guevara, Jerry Cc: Vazquez, Benjamin; Lopez, Jorge (SAPD); Hernandez, Johnathan; Phan, Thai; Penaloza, David; Bacerra, Phil; Amezcua, Valerie;jmunoz@uniteherel 1.org Subject: Local 11 Comments: Village Santa Ana Specific Plan & DA (1561 West Sunflower Avenue) Attachments: CC Comments_final.pdf Attention: This email originated from outside of City of Santa Ana.Use caution when opening attachments or links. Dear Mayor Amezcua and Honorable City Councilmembers: On behalf of UNITE HERE Local 11 ("Local 11"), please see that attached comments on the above referenced Project and Supplemental Environmental Impact Report("SEIR") In short,we thank the City for the opportunity to provide these comments. As discussed in the attached comments, Local 11 has some concerns with the Project, such as the lack of required onsite affordable housing and the permitting by right of hotel uses. While the specific plan permits by-right hotel use,there is no hotel anticipated, no hotel currently existing, no vested right to a hotel use, nor a specific hotel even considered under the SEIR, which may run afoul of the California Environmental Quality Act("CEQA"). Furthermore, under these circumstances, allowing by-right hotel uses (including extended-stays) seems to be unprecedented when considering: (i)the City's Zoning Code does not allow by- right hotel uses; (ii)the Project is distinguishable from the few specific developments that involve hotel use ("SD(s)"), including the MacArthur Place SD and Transit Zoning Code; and (iii)the Village Specific Plan is unlike the City's other five specific plans ("SP(s)") or overlay(e.g., does not allow by-right hotels and/or extended-stays, anticipated specifically hotel project/uses, involved existing and/or vested rights to hotel uses, etc.). For the reasons discussed in the attached comment letter, Local 11 respectfully urges the City to consider: 1. Removing hotel uses from the Village Specific Plan,which can be accomplished with minor edits to four pages of the current planning document(i.e., pp. 73, 74, 83, 88),which are provided in the attached comment letter (attached thereto as Exhibit A). 2. Requiring some portion of the housing to be affordable and/or workforce housing. 3. Implementing additional design features and mitigation measures to help minimize potential impacts from vehicle miles traveled ("VMT") and mobile emissions, such as those measures suggested by public agencies and provided in the attached comment letter(attached thereto as Exhibit e). Thank you for the opportunity to provide these comments. Very truly yours, JORDAN R.SISSON,ESQ. Law Office of Jordan R. Sisson 3993 Orange St.,Ste. 201 Riverside,CA 92501 Office:951-405-8127 Direct: 951-542-2735 jordan@irsissonlaw.com 1