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From: Vanpatte
Se nt: Monday, De ce mbe r 15, 2025 5:21 PM
To: A manda Lauff e r <A Lauf fer@anaheim.net>
Subje ct: [EXTERN AL] Fw: Ci ty Council Hearing on December 16, 2025_De velopment Appl i cati on N umbe r 2023_00043
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Sent: Monday, December 15, 2025 at 05:18:45 PM PST
Subject: City Council Hearing on December 16, 2025_Development Application Number 2023_00043
Dear Honorable Councilmembers, Mayor, Mayor Pro Tem and Designated Staff Members:
I live and work in the City of Anaheim. Anaheim has been my home for over twenty-four years and I have seen a lot of changes during my living
and working tenure here. I spoke against the Salt development proposal at the critical planning committee meeting; and, I would have liked to have
had the opportunity to speak at the upcoming 12/16/25 city council meeting. Unfortunately, given the limited amount of notice, the busy tempo of
our life at present, a preexisting professional commitment and the time of year, I will be unable to attend. As such, I will be writing my
concerns/issues within this email.
My first concern is the influx of approximately 447 unit "multi-family residential community." Seriously, haven't we already been here? It was
already determined that adding a high-rise living structure with the potential of exponentially increasing the existing volume of traffic and people in
this specific area has the potential to further exacerbate an already dire set of circumstances. More people, potentially hundreds, means hundreds
more who will panic in an evacuation situation. The citizens that already live in this area only have ONE thoroughfare to utilize in order to evacuate
a fire or disaster. Please consider just how dire the situation is at present: we currently CANNOT evacuate in a timely or safe manner! Adding
hundreds of more people will make an exisitng bad situation worse. You have already been informed by your Chief of Police and your own Fire
Department Chief that they WOULD NOT recommend or support adding hundreds of additional living domiciles in this area. You are literally
playing with fire AGAIN.
Secondly, the existing land use designation is such to provide services to the current population living east of the 55 freeway. Since the "mandatory
lock-downs" of the COVID-19 era, we have yet to see a resurgence in services and/or businesses available to the citizenry here in Anaheim. In
fact, we have considerably less services/businesses available now than we did over five years ago. It is plainly obvious by the graphics on the city's
website that you seem to be singularly focused on
select entertainment businesses (e.g., Disneyland, Honda Center, etc.). However, you
HAVE NOT created a pro-business environment in
which to lure lucrative, job producing and service
provision focused businesses to our city and district. Nor do we get the impression that you are pro-resident services. We have lost two significant
entertainment/theater businesses within the last five years in District 6 and nothing has been proposed to fill those service/business voids. Yet, you
continually seek to be courted by carpet bagging businesses who are not vested in or pay taxes to Anaheim...why is that? We are starting to
believe that large, corrupt money is the only thing that gets our city councimembers' attention. You consistently defer to big pocket corporations
and I'm starting to question your motives. Seriously, you literally had two planning commission members admit on the dais during a public hearing
that they participated in back hallway discussions that favored the proposing corporation -- this could be misconstrued as a violation of the Brown
Act.
My third concern is that a high density apartment building has the potential to further strain existing and quite limited public services. For example,
this most recent past Fourth of July you centralized the phone reporting system regarding illegal fireworks usage. However, when we called to
report illegal
firework usage, the person answering the call didn't even know our street or where we lived in the city! This proposal will lead to further service
limitations. We are losing our faith and trust in the City Council to make decisions in our best interest.
Lastly, our concern with a four-story commercial structure would lessen property values in our area. Please help us!!! We have worked and
continue to work hard to afford to live in Anaheim! Please HELP US by voting AGAINST this proposal. We are hard working citizens who love
the existing feel of our neighborhood and community. Please DO NOT alter our community for the worse!
Please consider the thousands of people who already live and work in your city; and, consider their severe dislike of this current proposal. Why do
these
organizations consistently want to come into Anaheim and ignore existing zoning and land use designations? Why do they feel you are amenable to
changing the zoning and use designations? Won't
you please fight for your existing residents, taxpayers and citizenry? Please vote "No;" and, support your existing citizenry! Thank you in advance
for your time and attention to my concerns.
Respectfully,
Karen Van Patten
Anaheim, CA 92808