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Community Development Agency <br />santa-ana.org/cd <br />Item # 13 <br />City of Santa Ana <br />20 Civic Center Plaza, Santa Ana, CA 92701 <br /> Staff Report <br />August 16, 2022 <br />TOPIC: DTSA Skate Park <br />AGENDA TITLE: <br />Approve License Agreement with East End Realty Partners, LP to Construct New <br />Downtown Skate Park <br />RECOMMENDED ACTION <br />Authorize the City Manager to execute the first amendment to the license agreement with <br />East End Realty Partners, LP to construct and maintain a new skate park in Downtown <br />Santa Ana for a five-year term of August 16, 2022 to August 16, 2027, subject to non- <br />substantive changes approved by the City Manager and City Attorney. <br />DISCUSSION <br />In December 2018, City Council and East End Realty Partners, LP entered into a license <br />agreement to construct a new skate park in Downtown Santa Ana (DTSA) as a measure <br />of providing public place-making space. As a direct response to the many Santa Ana <br />youth that use skateboards as a mode of transportation and recreational activity, DTSA <br />stakeholders are interested in constructing a skate park that will promote a healthy <br />lifestyle, potentially alleviate damage to downtown infrastructure and minimize pedestrian <br />injuries. <br />Adding a skate park in DTSA also creates an amenity for attracting more visitors to the <br />area. These visitors will continue to eat, shop and play in DTSA, which in turn increases <br />revenues to the City. <br />Upon City Council approval of the License Agreement, East End Realty Partners, LP will <br />fund the design and construction of the skate park in the alley behind the city-owned <br />parking structure at 5th and Spurgeon. Currently, the alley is used by service trucks for <br />the adjacent businesses to exit when they enter through Spurgeon to drop off goods for <br />the businesses. The construction of the skate park will ultimately eliminate that exit. <br />Several accommodations to the area have been completed such as: removing the <br />overhead wires, expanding the entrance/exit to accommodate large trucks, and allowing <br />a two-minute grace period for trucks to drive through the entry/exit of the parking structure.