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Dear Council Members
Tina Locklear <
Monday, July 19, 2021 7:33 PM
Public Comment
No to Holden Project -
No on Holden Council Member letter.pdf
Please see the attached which articulates my concerns over the Holden Project for you to consider.
Thank you.
Tina Locklear
Anaheim, CA 92807
Tina Locklear
Anaheim. CA. 92807
July 14, 2021
City of Anaheim City Council
200 South Anaheim Blvd.
Anaheim, CA. 92805
Dear City Council Member,
Subject: HOLDEN PROJECT - 5275 East Nohl Ranch Road Anaheim, CA. 92807
Siren noise and overwhelmed traffic load on Nohl Ranch have not been properly considered
Again, I am contacting you regarding my extreme opposition to the proposed Holden project Development. Your vote on
this matter is coming up. Please try to understand, me and my neighbors are not upset about the view, nor are we
against senior living facilities or seniors. As a nearby resident of Anaheim, this particular largescale development would
be disruptive with 24 hour noise issues from first responders. The effect of increasing traffic (which is already at an
unsafe level) would be irresponsible and create unnecessary safety risks to my neighborhood. I live in Point Quissett,
the development across the street from the proposed project.
FIRE Evacuation Hazard - Nohl Ranch Road is a FIRE EVACUTION ROUTE. Not only will you bog up the already congested
evacuation route of residents, you will syphon off first responders to help evacuate 118 + people that have no cars and
no ability to get off the hill on their own. Fires are not an infrequent event to us. Every year since I have moved here
(2006), there has been a fire nearby and I have had to pack and prepare for evacuation. I have evacuated twice.
Weather conditions are worsening, and this is a real and growing threat. The beautiful trees of Anaheim Hills are also a
fuel source for wind blown embers. This is a dangerous area for immobile people to be living. And it is unfair to trap
residents on the hill because of being short sighted on this issue.
This part of Nohl Ranch Road (at Royal Oak to Point Quissett entry on Andover) is already a danger. Already, Nohl
Ranch Road is a danger to exit onto from Point Quissett at busy times of the day. It has become a speedway alternative
to the 91 Freeway. Trying to turn west onto Nohl Ranch in the morning and evening, has become an anxiety inducing
and often traumatizing event. The "suicide lane" that is a car length long is not enough of a safe harbor to protect
oneself from the speeders zipping around the blind turns as you get halfway out into the road.
When I attended the Planning commission meeting two months ago, when they were to vote on this project, one of the
planners said that very few accidents had occurred on Nohl Ranch when this safety question was raised. That is an
outrageous lie and made from an uninformed person. Do a certain number of deaths have to occur to be considered a
lot? In the past 5 years, Point Quissett HOA has had to rebuild the Brick Monument out front twice because of crashes
into it. My property owns the easement for this monument, so I have a bird's eye view of the injuries. There was a
fatality behind my house when someone ran into a light pole and took it down. The brick wall across from me looks like
a patchwork quilt from the number of times cars have been pushed into it after crashing on the blind turn as they come
around too fast. I can document at least 7 crashes of pictures I have taken of crashes in the street in the 30 yards of Nohl
Ranch behind my house. Hearing the screeching brakes behind my house is a daily phenomenon. I have called in each
of the crashes to 911, all of which required ambulances or tow trucks for the parties to leave the scene. So when the
planner said "only a few" accidents were reported, I question the truthfulness or the unverified source of that data.
They should check 911 calls, accident reports, and the HOA financial reports that are required to rebuild the block walls.
Increased Noise of Sirens: Inserting a 24 hour commercial care facility in this spot will increase the noise every day and
every night, for the ordinary events of falling or medical conditions. I have one neighbor now that falls at home a lot
due to a medical condition, and the sirens and noise that disrupt the neighborhood each and every month is significant.
Now multiply that siren noise caused by one falling senior to 118 seniors, many with memory care issues who are even
more likely to fall as they forget how to walk. There will be ambulance sirens and fire engine sirens at least 4 times a
day, presuming just one fall per patient per month. This is too much. There will be additional accidents from the staff
and deliveries turning into the facility from an already overly dangerous blind curve, and more sirens and injuries for
that.
Perfectly acceptable alternate is available: Thus project should be located off the hill in a better area. The old Kaiser
land on Lakeview is a perfect site, with a park and hospital nearby to accommodate the needs of this senior housing
community. A church wants to buy the land and continue to use it for the purpose that is presently has a variance for.
I know you are probably very busy with many other issues to consider. But please remember that me, my family, and
the thousands of residents in this area will be deeply negatively impacted by this project. There are easy alternate
locations available for this project, so that Anaheim can still get the taxation revenue from this project: right down the
hill on the Kaiser Lakeview lot, without impacting the safety and quiet enjoyment of so many residents.
Thank you for your continued service to Anaheim, and its residents. Please help find the middle road here for the
project and the residents of Anaheim Hills. Please oppose this site for the Proposed Holden Project.
Kindest regards,
Tina Locklear