HomeMy WebLinkAbout1 - AA19-03;CUP19-21_813 N EUCLID STREET COMMENTFrom:Flores, Dora
To:Bernal, Sarah
Subject:FW: Planning Commission
Date:Monday, January 27, 2020 2:42:03 PM
See ecomment below
From: Hop Nguyen [mailto:]
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2020 12:04 PM
To: eComment <ecomment@santa-ana.org>
Subject: Planning Commission
Dear Planning and Building Agency,
My name is Hop Nguyen and my family are a residence at 10912 Lotus Drive, Garden Grove,
CA 92843, which is in a residential community on the north-west corner of Hazard and Euclid.
We had received a notice of public hearing before the Santa Ana Planning Commission for a
project to build a 7-eleven catty corner to our address at 813 N. Euclid, to voice our comments
to this project by sending this email before 1pm today if we are not able to make the meeting
today at 5:30pm, which I'm not.
I've lived in this community for the past 7 years and we've had terrible experiences
throughout the years with homeless people jumping our walls to find refuge in our community
pool area and have damaged equipment and restrooms so we'd installed cameras and locked
the doors, which are inconveniences to our residence and many feel it's unsafe to use our
pool area unless it's crowded with residence. We are constantly experiencing thefts and car
break-ins, including my home break-in a couple years back and was vandalized my car and
inside my house which prompted me to buy a gun safe and some firearms for the protection
of my family and I never thought I would need a firearm to protect my family when we
purchased a home in a gated community.
Many of us have installed security cameras in and around our houses, which makes our
community look like a prison, and we have a Facebook Group page for us to be part of the
community to include us all with events and share our thoughts on how to improve our
community but it's actually mostly used for reporting crimes captured on our videos, possible
compare patterns how thieves come in to our gated community or what they take and to
warn others to be aware and to watch out for themselves and their children.
We are currently working with the businesses behind our community to help prevent the
vagrants who hide in the parking lots at night where they can escape loitering and being seen
or caught in the act of something by jumping over the wall to and from our community. Many
of us, like my family, are in fear of drug needles or human bio and trash that may be left
behind where our young children may accidentally be in contact of being poked or stepped
on.
With this project to build another 7-Eleven across from our community, we feel it will attract
even more vagrants and crime near our community such as the August-7-2019 robbery at a
nearby 7-Eleven where there was 4 murdered and 2 injured. We also had a recent robbery at
gun point in front of our community with a food truck and I had submitted my backyard video
to the Garden Grove police for evidence. Does this sound safe for kids to walk home from the
nearby schools? There are many elementary kids, not just in our community but many homes
on our streets and across from us who walks from and to schools on Hazard across Euclid.
Kids needs to be safe!
There are already five 7-Eleven within a two mile radius of our community! Why do we need
another? I would rather have this Planning Agency build a Police or Fire Station at this
location to help our community BE and FEEL safer. There are many of us that feel we need to
move, not just out of our community but out of the city for our family to feel safe.
Please hear our voices and do not add extra elements which will attract crimes to our
neighborhood. We NEED to reduce those elements that currently exists in this are now.
Thank you,
Hop Nguyen
92843