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Name: , Q H,-� f IAV� Address-'] Date: August%, 21123 Re: City Council Hearing on August 15,2023 Objection to Application for Abandonment of certain easement/right of way located at 2383 N. Flower Street, Santa Ana, CA; ]Abandonment No. 2023-01). Applicants Colin Donnelly and Carolina La Dear Mayorand City Council: We are residents at the above address. We have been residents at said address since Z 4.1 . We understand that there has been an Application to Abandon the alleyway located between 2379 and 2383 North Flower Street, Santa Ana, CA, our neighborhood alleyway. We strongly are opposed to the reverting of said Property as stated on Applicant's application for the followingreasons: 1. First, we do not believe there was ever an easement for said alleyway, it is a dedicated roadway. We strongly believe that alley B a PUBUC ROADWAY. We strongly object to the fact that the City of Santa is intending on GIFTING PUBLIC FUNDS to the Applicants. The alleyway belongs to the People. We are of the opinion that Bitting of Public funds for free is illegal. The valve of said 'BiW could possibly be worth hundreds of thousands of dollars taken from our community. 2. We believe the gifting of said land Increases the Applicants' property by approximately 1,150 sq. ft of prime property In Santa Ana, 3. We object to the fact that our community was not informed properly of the Applicants' application W have the property "reverted" to 2383 North Flower. That property is a PUBLIC ROADWAY —there is nothing to "revert. We, the people, are deservingof proper Notice. 4. We object that the Applicants intend on having a wall built to block the alleyway so no one has access to that public roadway. This Is our community; the location of this property is not for Individual use. We never agreed to give the property to anyone. This alleyway will be closed for public use should you approve this Application. 5. We also object to the fact that our neighbors adjacent to said alleyway an Heliotrope will be restricted and inconvenienced by said closure ofthis alleyway. They do not have driveways, so they roust access their garages via the alleyway. Those neighbors have legal rights to full access to this alleyway. It also creates a dangerous driving corMRion in that people may have to back Up onto Heliotrope B a car is coming down the alley. b. The residence located at 2379 North Flower will also be greatly impacted If this "reverting" is approved. This is not an easement, it is a dedicated roadway, nothing to "revert". The property owner at 2379 also has rights, as do we. 7. Said alleyway has been there for 100yearsl The Applicants have owned their residence at 2383 N. Flower for 22 months. We love our neighborhood )urt as it is, we do not need to close alleyways for individuals who have not given thought to our community. 8. Additional verbiage has been added to the legal description of Applicants'application. Applicants are claiming the alleyway belongs W them, and thus, want the alleyway "reverted". This NEW language just appeared Out of nowhere. The City must review all ORIGINAL maps and records to disprove this claim. 9. We also believe that alley way property was DEDICATED to the City of Santa Ana by prior owners of said land/alleyway In the year 1925, and not as an easement over the Applicants' property at 2383 N. Flowe, 10. We are adamant and herewith request that the City of Santa Ana either take the matter off calendar for further review by the City Attorney and/or any other departments needed to establish said ownership of that property or that the City Council abolish all further discussion an this matter and terminate said Application wish no further discussion. We prefer the latter. Thank you in advance for your consideration into this matter. We wish to be contacted directly by the City with any decisions made an this Application. Our contract information is noted above. Thank you for your time and your efforts in rejecting this Application. By: Y: 3 P JJ S,PIg