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PJ & Neda Jahangiri December 19, 2017 City of Santa Ana Planning Commission 20 Civic Center Plaza Santa Ana, CA 92702 RE: Hampton Inn Hotel — 2129 North Main Street, Santa Ana Dear Planning Commissioners, We are writing to express our strongest support for the Hotel development project at the City owned parking lot on Main Street. We believe the development of a 4 star hotel at the approach to Main Street "Museum District" will highlight and revitalize the already established cultural landmarks like the Bowers Museum as well as usher in much needed economic growth benefiting both local businesses and residents. There has been a small, albeit vocal opposition to losing the parking lot and not necessarily the construction of the hotel. The chief concerns are the loss of free and unrestricted parking for a few nearby commercial property and apartment owners. Their compliant amounts to asking the City to subsidize free parking spaces for a few businesses that violate the off- street parking requirements. While it is important to hear the local community speak out and understand their concerns, however it also distorts the bigger and more important dilemma facing the City. The unsupervised use of the parking lot has come at a cost and if unchecked it will only get worse. The problems include many incidents of public nuisances such as crime, prostitution, homelessness and gang activities. These activities have manifested their way toward nearby properties which have suffered the brunt of both emotional and financial costs. As the representatives of the entire beautiful City of Santa Ana, you have the great responsibility and obligation to all of her citizens and not just a few select individuals seeking continuous free parking. If approved, we believe the Hotel project will eliminate these concerns, free up budget for the parking lot oversight and bring much needed bed tax revenues to our financially strapped coffers. Thank you in advance for understanding our concerns and look forward in meeting all of you at next Monday's scheduled meeting. Neda Jahangiri 1421 N. Wanda Road, Suite 120, Orange, California 92867 714.288.8600w 714.423.2017c 75A-172