10 (90)Date:2/3/2026 1:47:36 PM
From:"Rick Pollgreen"
To:"Public Comment" publiccomment@anaheim.net
Subject:[EXTERNAL] Opposition to the Festival Center Project
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> Dear Council Member and madam mayor As hleigh,
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> I am writing to urge you to vote No on the propos ed Anaheim Hills Festival Center apartment project.
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> You don’t need to be a traffic engineer to recognize that Santa Ana Canyon Road is already operating at capacity. On mos t days , routine trips to work or the
grocery s tore are difficult and time-cons uming. The notion that we can add more than 400 apartments—bringing roughly 1,300 additional res idents —without creating
a s erious public s afety ris k during a wildfire evacuation s imply defies common s ense.
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> According to the city’s own reports , current evacuation times already exceed three hours during a fire. To dis mis s an additional s even minutes of delay as
ins ignificant is deeply frus trating for thos e of us who live here and would be directly affected. When a sys tem is already failing, adding more s train does not fix it.
Approving this project effectively acknowledges that the evacuation plan is inadequate while choos ing to make conditions even wors e.
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> Our elected leaders s hould focus on the real, live conditions on our streets—not just projections on a developer’s s preads heet. The res pons ible cours e of action is
to protect exis ting res idents and addres s our evacuation challenges before adding more people to an already cons trained area.
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> We need s afer, more reliable ways to leave the Hills in an emergency—not more residents trapped with limited options . I res pectfully as k you to vote No on this
project.
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> I beg of you.
Sincerely,
Rick Pollgreen
Anaheim res ident!