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Exhibit A to Side Letter August 21, 2025 July 14, 2025 Nancy Tran, AICP City of Santa Ana --2&-Gvic-Gerrter-Plaza -- - -- Santa,Ana�92702 via e-mail:NTranS santa-ona.or Subject: Proposal to Provide CEQA, Peer Review Services for the Watermarke Sandpointe Project Dear Nancy: Ascent welcomes this opportunity to submit our proposal to assist the City of Santa Ana with California Environmental Quality Act(CEQA) peer review services for the Watermarke Sandpointe Project.Ascent is the ideal candidate to take on this important project for the following reasons: We offer a strong project management team who are no strangers to CEQA streamlining strategy. Ascent has previously prepared CEQA Guidelines Section 15183 compliance documents and has extensive experience working with the City on other recent projects, including the Extra Space Storage at Fourth Street Class 32 Exemption peer review and The Village at Santa Ana Supplemental EIR peer review.With Marlie Long as the designated project manager, supported by Chad Beckstrom as the principal-in-charge, you can have confidence that we will face public scrutiny and address concerns from the community and decision-makers.The City will receive the most current strategic CEQA streamlining advice, and the document will be of the highest quality. We will bring the same skills we have brought to the City on other projects, as well as those that have made other complex CEQA streamlining projects successful and able to withstand legal scrutiny. Ascent staff are available to begin work immediately upon receipt of notice to proceed. Our technical specialists provide the highest expertise in their fields.Ascent's in-house experts are the best in their fields, giving the City assurance that the technical studies, including any applicant- prepared studies, will follow the correct methodologies, adequately substantiate conclusions, and be CEQA-compliant.These experts include leading air quality specialists, cultural resource specialists, noise experts, biologists, and others who will be able to properly analyze and disclose the project's impacts and craft workable mitigation measures where needed. We have an outstanding track record for preparing legally defensible CEQA documents. When you hire Ascent,you know that we share a common goal of legal defensibility and stay abreast of the most up-to-date legislation and court decisions. We plan ahead for litigation from the start and are frequently brought in for the "stickiest" projects, often working alongside our clients' attorneys to proactively build a strong record as we go. ASCENT ENVIRONMENTAL,INC.RBA ASCENT 11530 TECHNOLOGY ORIVE,SMITE 100,IRVINE,CA 926181/0 949.988,0890 F 916.444.3927 w w.escentinc