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Public Comment
From:Loretta Day
Sent:Tuesday, November 10, 2020 9:59 AM
To:Public Comment
Subject:FW: Anaheim Cultural Arts Center
Third email re: CCM 11/10, Cultural Arts Center
From: LTORGERSON@roadrunner.
Sent: Tuesday, November 10, 2020 9:53 AM
To: Denise Barnes <DBarnes@anaheim.net>; Harry Sidhu (Mayor) <HSidhu@anaheim.net>; Jordan Brandman
<JBrandman@anaheim.net>; Jose Moreno <JMoreno@anaheim.net>; Lucille Kring <LKring@anaheim.net>; Stephen
Faessel <SFaessel@anaheim.net>; Trevor O'Neil <TONeil@anaheim.net>
Cc: Loretta Day <LDay@anaheim.net>
Subject: Anaheim Cultural Arts Center
Dear Mayor Sidhu and City Council Members,
My husband Larry and I would like to strongly discourage you from selling this property to a developer who
will tear down the historic building and build an incredibly dense housing project. Here are our main objections,
although, frankly, you all should be aware of these points already:
1) The project is WAY too dense for this small piece of property. Period.
2) Parking and traffic is already an issue. This will exacerbate it.
3) The 92805 zip code already has more than its fair share of low income housing. Find a piece of city property
that is like valued in an area where they DO NOT have their fair share of low income housing. Low income
families should have the opportunity to live anywhere in the city, not just 92805.
4) There are only three historic public buildings left in this immediate area - the Kraemer Bldg., the Carnegie
Library, and the Anaheim Cultural Arts Center, formerly the original Parish Hall of Zion Lutheran Church.
There is no good reason to demolish yet another piece of Anaheim's history.
5) The location of the Anaheim Ballet is crucial to its mission, to provide an opportunity for disadvantaged
youth to participate in a fine arts program of music and dance. If you take the program out of this neighborhood,
it will decrease the chances that these youth will be able to access the program.
Do the right thing - deny this project at this location. Thank you for your consideration.
Dinah Torgerson
Anaheim
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