Fw: Advisory Message: Santa Ana Planning Commission to Have Virtual Meeting on Thursday, April 2

[Jeff Dickman]

Good evening everyone,

The One Broadway Plaza project had its hearing this past Monday, March 30. After several hours of online discussion, the Planning Commission opted to delay its vote until tomorrow evening, April 2, at 5:30 PM. Please read City's email about tomorrow's meeting. You will be able to watch, submit written comments and also call in to express your concerns,

The Planning Commissioners listened to the public's concerns that: 

* the developer, Michael Harrah wants to now exclude affordable housing in the tower

* the project should prepare a new environmental impact report (an EIR) to better understand its impacts since a dozen other apartment projects are in planning or the development in the area around One Broadway Plaza (adding another 1,000 units)

* the project should provide traffic mitigations and traffic calming measures

* One Broadway Plaza provide park land, and other benefits.

Other commenters raised the question why was the Planning Commission is even meeting during a world-wide pandemic, which may include between 100,000 to 240,000 American deaths, and where our City is operating under emergency conditions. The answer is the developer wants to revise his project to make it more desirable to investors. That's it.

The project does not provide any significant benefit to the public. The project does however generate over 3000 vehicle trips per day, will impact 6 adjoining neighborhoods, and will likely clog Main Street and Broadway. I will recommend to the Planning Commission that this hearing, in fact all Planning Commission hearings, unless they pertain to the current health crisis, be delayed until the corona virus has passed.

The public are frightened, and this is clearly not a time for business as usual. This is a time to focus on family, friends and community and being safe

Email your Councilmember to tell him or her to delay the hearing, and wait until our community is able to safely meet in a public forum. Please see the contact information below:

* ecom...@santa-ana.org, or Vince Fregoso, the OBP planner is vfre...@santa-ana.org

* Chairperson of the Planning Commission, Mark McLoughlin. His email is mmclo...@santa-ana.org

* Ward 1 Councilperson is Mr. Vince Sarmiento at vsarm...@santa-ana.org

* Ward 3 Councilperson is Jose Solorio at JSol...@santa-ana.org

* Ward 2 Councilperson for French Park, Logan and Lacy is Mr. David Penaloza at dpen...@santa-ana.org

* Ward 4 Councilperson is Mr. Phil Bacerra at pbac...@santa-ana.org

* Ward 5 Councilperson is Mr. Juan Villegas at jvil...@santa-ana.org

* Ward 6 Councilperson is Cecilia Iglesias at cigl...@santa-ana.org

* Mayor Miguel Pulido, his address is Miguel Pulido at mpu...@santa-ana.org

Thank you,

Jeff Dickman

714 240 0883

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Wednesday April 1, 2020, 3:20 PM City of Santa Ana Downtown Orange County Advisory: Santa Ana Planning Commission to Have Virtual Meeting on Thursday, April 2 Dear Jeff Dickman, The Santa Ana Planning Commission is scheduled to meet on Thursday, April 2, at 5:30 p.m. The agenda for the adjourned meeting is available at www.santa-ana.org/cc/city-meetings. It is located under the “Upcoming Events” section. Due to Gov. Gavin Newsom's Executive Order and the City Council’s Proclamation of Local Emergency, the City can no longer offer an in-person meeting location for the community to attend public meetings. We are offering three remote ways to participate: YouTube Live, phone, and email. Learn more by visiting: www.santa-ana.org/cc/city-meetings/virtual-meetings. If you wish to e-mail your comment, please submit to eCom...@santa-ana.org (reference Planning Commission and the agenda item number) by 5 p.m. on the day of the meeting; emails received after that time may not be distributed to the Commission but will be on file for public viewing the day after the meeting. If you would lik e your e-comment read aloud at the hearing, you must write "PUBLIC COMMENT - PLEASE READ ALOUD DURING PUBLIC HEARING." Comments without this statement will be distributed to the Commission prior to the meeting for their review and consideration and posted the City’s website for public viewing. The Santa Ana City Council also has a virtual meeting scheduled next Tuesday, April 7, but all other City commission, committee and board meetings have been canceled. For news, resources and video updates from Mayor Miguel A. Pulido related to COVID-19, please visit www.santa-ana.org/covid19. ### For full details, view this message on the web. Sent by City of Santa Ana 20 Civic Center Plaza, 8th Floor/ P.O. Box 1988, Santa Ana, CA 92701 To manage your email settings, click here. Powered by Nixle © 2020 Everbridge, Inc. All rights reserved.