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8 8 8 2 Tenth Street Reopening-A Clear Danger to Students: Currently, a small portion of Tenth St. (between Main and Sycamore) is closed to vehicular traffic due to Resolution 2000-059 adopted by the Santa Ana City Council that, among other things, deemed such closure necessary to protect the safety of OSCHA students. [A copy of this resolution is attached for your reference.] Inasmuch as the OCHSA campus encompasses buildings on both sides of Tenth Street, OCHSA students regularly traverse Tenth Street throughout the school day to access each portion of the campus. The development plans for the One Broadway Plaza project calls for the reopening of Tenth St. to be used as a one-way eastbound exit point for potentially several thousand cars of future tenants and employees of OBP-without any basis for retracting the finding that supported the street closure initially: that such closure was necessary for student safety. In fact, the reopening of Tenth Street as proposed would greatly exacerbate the threat to student safety-far beyond the situation that existed when the street was first closed for safety reasons. Several hundred students still must cross Tenth Street throughout the day to access school buildings, yet now it is proposed to intentionally funnel several thousand vehicles down this very street at the same time it is being used by the students. Additionally, the plans call for the erection of a large fountain in the intersection of Tenth and Sycamore (which is to become a sort of round-about) that could block the vision of eastbound drivers to pedestrians crossing Tenth Street at Sycamore. Further, to the extent that OCHSA facilities are utilized by elementary students walking to and from any of the three other nearby public schools, these hazards are extended to even younger children. These plans for Tenth Street pose an extremely dangerous hazard for the safety and well being of the students. Even without this project, Santa Ana suffers an inordinately high rate of pedestrian/vehicular accidents. The threat to students posed by this development is not just foreseeable, but is both severe and preventable. In short, the development agreement calls for the reopening of Tenth St. despite the fact that all three factual findings of Resolution 2000-059 remain in effect. This hazard is preventable because the reopening of Tenth St. is not necessary to provide ingress or egress from the OBP building. In fact, according to statements made by developer Mike. Harrah at June 14,2004 meeting with myself an a few dozen other OCHSA parents, his original plans called for Tenth S1. to remain closed; that even under the current plan access to/from the building is gained via other streets, and that it was the city planning and/or public works officials which insisted that Tenth St. be reopened-further evidence that it is the city that is creating the dangerous condition. Obviously, the simplest solution is to keep Tenth St. closed or, better yet, abandon it to OCHSA. In fact, Mr. Harrah promised parents and OCHSA officials at that 6/14/04 meeting that he would immediately seek to amend his plans to keep Tenth St. closed. This change may cause a short delay in the project, but will probably save lives (not to mention millions in potential future city liability) and is simply the right thing to do. The city should do whatever it can to facilitate the continued closure of Tenth S1. Unsafe Student Pick Up and Drop Off: Currently, most students are dropped off either in the existing OCHSA parking lot or along Sycamore and Main St.. The development plans for OBP call for the abandonment of Sycamore S1. as a public street (north of Tenth Street adjacent to the 75E-57