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From: Jen McCool <
Date: December 5, 2025 at 2:46:42 PM PST
To: alauffer@anaheim.net
Subject: Fwd: any developments on Santa Ana canyon
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From: Jen McCool <
Date: December 5, 2025 at 11:51:45 AM PST
To: alauffee@anaheim.net
Subject: any developments on Santa Ana canyon
As a resident for over 30 years the last few years have been terrible , traffic apps directing south county traffic cut
through to the 91. If you don’t live here you will never understand. Our roads are small we do not have center dividers
or shoulders for emergency personal go get through. Our neighborhoods have turned into parking lots in our residential
streets for IE drivers, I have watched fire trucks not be able to drive down streets often and in any emergency police or
fire we have a real problem. Our community just like Yorba Linda and villa park are rural residential neighborhoods we
do not have the same structure or dangers as say other parts of Anahrim. Orange or say Irvine. As someone who was
trapped in home as a wall of fire blew through with not a single fire truck in this last fire it was scary. Cities change but
we have a real problem now and rezoning a city and certain area that has us trapped in our homes for hours a day is
unacceptable. And before we talk builders remedy and all that it does not apply. Yorba Linda had same situation
directly across the freeway and it it not compliant with current city zoning it puts people at risk it was found to nog be
eligible for builders remedy and is not CEQA, this is absolutely no different. I know residents will push back with large
suits as well. If we call police it’s not ok to have a 30 min to 1 hour delay same for fire response. That’s on a regular
day. The know your way signs we all laugh at cause clearly you evacuate away from the hills however you have to
know let fire 1/2 my family got out and got to my family’s in Yorba Linda only to have the fire tear through there as well
loosing homes. It took hours to get to one kid at el rancho and second child we were unable to get to till the middle of
the night being shuffled with strangers from Orange Lutheran seems every way anyone went the fire was. We are not in
the middle of a city. I’m not going to make this about fire but I will say I recently had a neighbor call 911 and emergency
personnel due to traffic was greatly delayed not there fault but we have a real problem. I think we need to close freeway
access after 2 or try something to see how to fix this. We should not be able to walk faster than we can drive and these
traffic apps have people that are clueless plugging up streets actually everywhere off weir and Serrano and oak canyon.
It’s a sea of cars that never stops often not allowing us to exit neighborhoods. Again certain areas were not intended or
built to accommodate the same as other areas that actually have many ways out, many ways for emergency to get too
and don’t run and risk of fire at all. You have some real scary situations on your hands and I know the city knows. It’s
way different then the stuff going up by the Honda center which poses no risk no blocking emergency and no death to
fire. Tired of them even being discussed and I hope you understand. Even if certain streets are widened at least 3-4
times a month people are making own lanes to get on freeway exiting off the entrances backwards it’s very dangerous
here off the 91. Thus was not always this way but we can’t add anything to it. We need to fix the situation, and just like
the proposed development in Yorba Linda a mile I’d two across the way it was clear to them that it’s not a risk or
something they could be held responsible for and that’s a current thing. Please reach out if you should require info
pictures or anything else that I can help clarify because traffic readers etc do not give a clear picture. Thank you
Jen McCool
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