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Salas, Diana From: Ellen Koldewey <mrskold@yahoo.com> Sent: Tuesday, December 03, 2019 3:11 PM To: Pulido, Miguel; Villegas, Juan; Sarmiento, Vicente; Solorio, Jose; Penaloza, David; Iglesias, Cecilia; Bacerra, Phil Cc: Ridge, Kristine; Carvalho, Sonia R.; eComment Subject: Items 11 A (1) and (2) Consent Calendar (Second Reading Ordinances 2525 North Main Street) City Council Meeting Tuesday 12-3-2019 Attachments: Development Agreemt Concerns 12-3-2019.docx Greetings Mayor Pulido and Council members,f piLi As your constituent and a Santa Ana voter, I object to the inclusion of Items 11A (1) and (2) in the Consent Calendar on the December 3, 2019 Council agenda.l I also object to the final adoption of these ordinances by Council on second reading without further informed discussion. The Consent Calendar should be reserved for "routine" items that can appropriately be enacted by one motion without discussion. With due respect, that is obviously not the case here. The final votes on adoption of the Development Agreement and Zoning Amendment for 2525 North Main Street are clearly not routine and must not be enacted by a single motion without further discussion. Therefore, I request that Council pull the two ordinances in 11A from the consent calendar for further discussion before voting, Before you decide, give the City Staff and City Attorney another opportunity to review the concerns presented to you in the enclosed "Development Agreement Concerns" document. Reconvene in January 2020 to make a final informed decision My neighbors have summarized their concerns about the Development Agreement in a single document and presented this list of their concerns to you. The "Development Agreement Concerns" document is part of the record you are considering. I have enclosed a copy with this letter. As my neighbors have said in the first two paragraphs on the first page, "(g)iven the constant plan evolution and staff work -load, the neighbors have discovered a number of issues/problems with the development agreement. The Development Agreement along with legal objections made by the Association's attorney and other attorneys who objected should be evaluated during a one -month deferral. The City Attorney and Planning Director should be given an opportunity to clean up a number of problems/ambiguities in the document and staff would have an opportunity to obtain meaningful concessions for the City that appear to have been overlooked. A summary of major and minor deficiencies/problems with the development agreement follows. Issues perceived as major or where the City is not receiving a fair deal have been highlighted in bold." Let the voters decide. Send the ordinances to a City Wide referendum and election. If you are truly concerned that those of us speaking against this project do not represent the will of your constituents and best interests of the greater community of Santa Ana, send these ordinances to the voters. Put these ordinances on the ballot in a special or general election referendum. Don't burden your constituents with the enormous responsibility of sending these ordinances to a City wide vote. if you still have doubts about what our community supports, take the initiative to let the voters all across the City decide this controversial issue. Let the majority of the voters of Santa Ana decide whether to build this project. Alternatively, I request that tonight those of you who supported the project on November 19, 2019 reconsider and oppose rather than adopt these two ordinances. There is ample evidence in the record to do so. If you carefully review the information presented at the last City Council Meeting on November 19, 2019, 1 believe you must conclude that both ordinances rest on a deeply flawed and incomplete Environmental Impact Report ((EIR) No. 2018-01.) The Development Agreement you are voting on tonight becomes null and void if a court of competent jurisdiction finds that the Environmental Impact Report is invalid for any reason or it otherwise does not go into effect. (Section 5, para. 2, page 8 of 10, Ordinance NS-2979. ) Finally, both the proposed Development Agreement and the Zoning Amendment adversely affect and conflict with the City's General Plan, even as amended per Amendment No. 2018-06 and Amendment Application No. 2018-10. Thank you for your service to our City. Respectfully; sE' sE,','