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pickup in the late afternoon. That is less UPS, FEDEX, and Amazon traffic than any Orange <br />County residential neighborhood these days. The business is quiet and clean and has never <br />had a complaint from the surrounding neighborhoods. I know that many of the businesses in <br />the Transit District are just as quiet and clean. <br />We feel that the city is acting in bad faith here, threatening our constitutional rights as <br />property owners. The reason change has not occurred in the last 15 years since the <br />Renaissance Plan is that buying up property in the transit district for a residential project does <br />not pencil at current market values for the property. If the city thinks that artificially driving <br />down the value of the existing properties so that residential developers may consider <br />developments in the transit district is fair to the existing property owners, they are missing <br />current realities. One glaring example of this transpired in Irvine recently when the city <br />council was considering a large warehouse taking up a city block in the Irvine Business Center <br />(IBC). The city denied approval but negotiated with the owners that if they built a residential <br />project, they could keep their industrial zoning for the property. The city did this to avoid <br />litigation for devaluing the property. The City of Santa Ana may want to consider things from <br />this perspective as well. <br />The city has an opportunity here to extend the moratorium and table any action on the zoning <br />changes until a solution acceptable to all stakeholders can be found and implemented. The <br />compressed window of time given to the stakeholders was not adequate for them to digest <br />the proposed changes and research potential solutions in partnership with the city. <br />Mark Law <br />FLP Investments LLC <br />714-812-2014 <br />mlaw92626@gmail.com <br />z <br />