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Orozco, Norma From: Arabe, Jill Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2018 4:13 PM To: Orozco, Norma; Mitre -Ramirez, Norma; Huizar, Maria; Rojano, Michael Cc: Neal, Candida; Fregoso, Vince Subject: FW: The Madison Please include public comment below for item 75A — Public Hearing for the Madison project (200 N Cabrillo Park Dr) scheduled for April 3rd City Council hearing. Thank you, Jill Ann Arabe, AICP Senior Planner/Urban Designer City of Santa Ana iarabe aasanta-ana.org (714) 667-2707 From: Paone, Tim Sent: Thursday, March 29, 2018 3:37 PM To: Arabe, Jill Cc: Robert Bisno Subject: The Ma ison Jill, following up on our email correspondence of November 27, 2017, and our comments at the December 11 Planning Commission hearing, I would like to share with you that the concerns of the owner of the Xerox office building at 1851 East First Street (the "Adjacent Owner") with respect to the application of The Madison have not yet been resolved. After we have had an opportunity to review the Staff Report for the upcoming City Council hearing, we will be submitting (probably late Monday or early Tuesday) more detailed comments, but for now I just wanted to alert you to the fact that we will be asking for a continuance of the City Council hearing to allow Mr. Bisno the additional time needed to work with the owners of the State Fund building to address our most significant concern, which is the potential conflict in the morning peak time between residents leaving The Madison for work or school and tenants arriving at the Xerox building for work. Mr. Bisno has been cooperative in pursuing this resolution, but the management firm for the State Fund building has not been available for the past few weeks to follow up on our discussions. We need time to resolve this concern. I would like to emphasize that while the owner of the Xerox building objects to aspects of the project, it does not object to the proposed use. In addition to the morning peak hour internal circulation impacts noted above, our concerns relate to the absence of a designated move -in / move -out loading area (a very significant concern), potential peak hour traffic queuing, the requested parking variance, and the location of the loading zone. All of these concerns are manageable and we are open to compromise, but we feel very strongly that the morning peak hour traffic conflict must be resolved. Please be aware that many of our tenants share these concerns. As noted above, after we review the Staff Report we will provide more detailed comments on these points. Thanks. Tim Paone 75A1143