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Comment #2 <br />Zuniga, Diana <br />From: Kim Riker <kriker@ricedw.com> <br />Sent: Monday, May 05, 2025 10:53 AM <br />To: Bacerra, Phil; Vazquez, Benjamin; Lopez, Jorge (SAPD); Penaloza, David; Hernandez, <br />Johnathan; Amezcua, Valerie; Phan, Thai <br />Cc: eComment <br />Subject: Comments re: SD-84 Industrial Rezoning for 5/6/25 Meeting <br />Attention: This email originated from outside of City of Santa Ana. Use caution when opening attachments or li iks. <br />To the Honorable Mayor Amezcua and Santa Ana City Council, <br />As a business owner affected daily by the "bad actors" we can all agree need to be dealt with, I implore you to <br />not destroy the businesses like mine who support the City and its residents with job opportunities and tax <br />revenue. The meetings of residents and businesses show that neither group supports devastating good <br />businesses, and their employees, for the benefit of gentrifying developers who will build high density, <br />unaffordable, luxury, multi -story units and thousands of additional residents - and traffic - right between 2 <br />historic single-family neighborhoods. This is exactly what the proposed rezoning does — it shuts down clean <br />industrial businesses and eliminates jobs. <br />There have not been any environmental studies in this area and the pollution from the S freeway, constant <br />trains and congested city streets seem to be completely ignored. <br />Instead of destroying the businesses you lured here with the Enterprise Zone and other tax advantages, any <br />proposals should focus on those who are actually "noxious" in nature. At the Train Station meeting and at the <br />Planning Commission -- residents recommended that the M-1 zone remain and that the M-2 zone <br />designation be eliminated. <br />Please consider amending the proposal to remove just the M-2 overlay -- allowing the M-1 Light Industrial to <br />remain - and converting current M-2 properties to M-1. I understand this approach was taken in Los Angeles <br />County in its "Green" rezoning. Something similar here would at least preserve some of the long-standing, <br />multi -generational businesses that have supported this City's infrastructure and revenue for over 70 years. <br />Thank you, <br />Kim Riker <br />Rice Drywall, Inc. <br />919 E. 61h Street <br />Santa Ana, CA 92701 <br />Ph: (714) 543-5400 <br />