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ED PLACEWORKS TECHNICAL MEMORANDUM DATE November 3, 2020 To City of Santa Ana CONTACT Selena Kelaher, AICP, Associate Planner FROM William Halligan, Managing Principal, Environmental Services SUBJECT Response to Comments Received on the V & Broadway Mixed -Use Project EIR Addendum PROJECT NUMBER SNIFF-19.0 Per your request, we have prepared formal responses to the comment letter received on October 20, 2020 from Palmieri, Hennessey & Leifer LLP, on the behalf of Coalition Against Santa Ana Irresponsible Development which includes citizens of and property owners in Santa Ana including the owners of the historic Spurgeon Building (202-212 West 4th Street, Santa Ana), herein referred to as the "Commenter." This Response to Comments memo provides a written response to the comment letter on the 3rd & Broadway Mixed -Use Project ("Proposed Project") included as Attachment A. The comment letter and specific comments are given numbers for reference purposes (0-1 through 0-24). Intro The Introduction provides an overview of the Commenter and the Commenter's position on the Proposed Project. Please refer to Responses 0-1 through 0-24 below. 0-1 The Commenter states that the Addendum does not refer to the Spurgeon Building and its site by name. While the City acknowledges the Addendum does not mention the Spurgeon Building by name, the Addendum does list the surrounding land uses and does provide environmental analysis of the impacts of the Proposed Project on the surrounding area. Section 2.2.3 of the Addendum identifies the surrounding land uses as residential, professional, commercial, industrial, and civic uses and their environs. Specifically, the Addendum acknowledges that north of the Project Site are commercial/retail uses. The existing north -south pedestrian bridges between the existing parking structure and the Spurgeon Building and Santa Ana Banquet Hall would be removed and a new guard rail will be installed along the east -west stairways as part of the Proposed Project. No other changes to related the stairway structures are proposed. The pedestrian bridges were constructed by the City in the 1980's and are not considered historic. No impacts to the existing Spurgeon Building are anticipated as a result of project construction. With regards to the placard honoring longtime Santa Ana downtown development director Roger Kooi, the placard will be removed during construction and replaced within the public right-of-way as part of the reconstructed Sycamore Street or relocated within the on -site plaza at the corner of Third Street and Broadway. 3 MacArthur Place, Suite 1100 1 Santa A for�La.92707 1 714.966.9220 I PlaceWorks.com