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Diana From: Debera Hendricks <d.Hendricks@ismflex.com> Sent: Monday, November 18, 2019 10:25 AM To: Pulido, Miguel; Sarmiento, Vicente; Penaloza, David; Solorio, Jose; pbacerra@santa- ana.org; Villegas, Juan; Iglesias, Cecilia; eComment Subject: 2525 N Main Street Proposed Development Dear Mayor Pulido and Councilmembers: We are Gary and Debera Hendricks, and we live at 2530 N Spurgeon Street, directly on the property line of the proposed 2525 N Main Street project. Last year we sent you a letter expressing our opposition to the proposed 2525 project and have also spoken to you in City Council meetings on this subject, believing what we thought were valid reasons for our opposition at the time. Since then there have been a number of significant changes, both to the development itself and to our perspective of the Park Santiago opposition, that have changed our views. Vineyards Development ("VDC") has made many efforts to work with the Park Santiago residents as a whole, as well as the West -side Spurgeon residents separately. VDC has made many accommodations to the community on numerous occasions, resulting in reduced size and density, and increased parking. They have also been very receptive to the concerns and requests of the Spurgeon residents, and have included all of our specific requests in the last several plan modifications. In spite of their many efforts to reach an accord with NSAPA, they have been met with obstruction and no willingness to negotiate in good faith. Further, as Park Santiago residents, we attend many of the Park Santiago community meetings and in the past have been invited to attend more private strategy meetings as well. During all of these meetings we have tried to discuss two questions: 1) what would happen to the 2525 N Main property if no re -zoning were to prevail? And 2) what number of units and design would be acceptable if re -zoning does succeed, what is your number? Unfortunately none of the NSAPA leadership has been willing to have any meaningful conversation about either of these questions. Although an acceptable number of units was expressed by a prominent member of the opposition leadership in a meeting this past Spring, he no longer stands by that number now that the project has reduced to that size. That individual is still fighting the development. The refusal to deal with either of these issues, which we consider to be critical, caused us to do our own research and to be more open to all possibilities. Our own objective research, along with our interaction with the developers and NSAPA, has caused us to change our position and support the current version of the proposed plan. The developers have met the Park Santiago community more than half way, and now have a plan that adequately responds to the issues of size, density, aesthetics and parking, as well as other specific concerns of the Spurgeon west -side homeowners and the Discovery Center parking problems. We do not believe that another office building along Main Street that constantly has a "For Lease" sign in front of it is the solution. We do not believe that an office building that is closed and empty 12 out of every 24 hours and all weekend, drawing crime and homelessness, is an acceptable alternative. We oppose many of the alternative development types that could take over that space if there is no re -zoning. As Park Santiago residents and Spurgeon Street homeowners, we are in support of the current version of the 2525 N Main project, and ask that you support it as well. Please vote in favor of the proposed 2525 N Main Street plan.