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From: GENIS, SANDRA
Sent: Tuesday, April 29, 2014 3:57 PM
To: HATCH, THOMAS; GREEN, BRENDA; RODELIUS, SHARON
Subject: study session
I am still feeling pretty awful so will not be attending today's study session. I do have a few issues I
wold like to share with the other, however.
Library
I am definitley supportive of expanded library services for the residents of Costa Mesa. Under the
proposed plane which would utilize community center space, how would meeting rooms be affected? My
greatest concern Is whether we would still have a single facility capable of accommodating the maximum
crowds which utilize the largest room which accommodates several hundred when fully opened up. The
City of Costa Mesa has used that room to capacity during hearings of unusual interest to our residents
and it is also heavily used for other meetings such as political forums. I believe that these meetings are
valuable and essential In fostering political discourse in our community. It Is thus important that we
maintain a facility with the same or greater maximum capacity in Costa Mesa.
General Plan
It seems that a general plan update that started out with a few minor changes is growing
exponentially. Overall, I am concerned about the loss of areas devoted to activities which form our
economic base and can provide living wage jobs. These would be replaced in favor of retail (in
office/industrial areas) and high density residential. Typically, high density residential uses do NOT pay
their way economically over the long term. In addition, brick and mortar retail is on the decline as more
and more purchasing takes place on-line.
Prior to the types of changes contemplated in this general plan overhaul, we must review the economic
implications of the proposed changes. We should not and cannot make these changes without a cost
revenue study as well as overall economic modelling for the City. I believe that many of the changes
proposed have the potential to be detrimental not only to our quality of life but to the long term
economic vitality of the City.
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