General (15)Date:2/7/2026 3:28:19 PM
From:"ALBERT MURPHY"
To:"Public Comment" publiccomment@anaheim.net
Subject:[EXTERNAL] Anaheim Hills Festival Project
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Anaheim City Council:
I have been a res ident of Anaheim Hills s ince 1988.
The fire s afety is s ues in Anaheim Hills are as great or greater today as they were in 2024, 2017 before that, 2012, 2007 and 2006 before that. Traffic has continued to
increas e from the 91/55 freeway drivers us ing Serrano Ave & Santa Ana Cyn Rd. as a bypass. There are only 3 ways out of the Hills - there is Serrano Ave to the
wes t, Imperial Hwy to the North & Wes t and Weir Cyn to the eas t. Whenever a brush fire happens, it comes from the Eas t s o that eliminates Weir Cyn Rd as an
egres s - there is no evacuation option to the s outh as Fremont Canyon eliminates option. I was evacuated in 2017 and it took me 45 minutes in bumper to bumper
traffic to go 3 miles along Serrano Ave. The winds were blowing hard that day and the fire department meas urement calculated the fire moving at 9 miles per minute.
The fire department does keep things as s afe as pos s ible with fire watch and other preemptive measures but the winds are unforgiving. I choos e to vote for s afety
here over increas ed hous ing.
The recent Anaheim Hills project at Deer Canyon was denied due to s evere fire safety is s ues in this area. This project at the Fes tival Center is no different - it creates
more traffic in an area that is already gridlocked on a mos tly daily bas is and is les s than one mile from the denied Deer Canyon Project. The fact that it is on developed
land vs undeveloped land is meaningles s - the wind does n’t really care; remember 9 miles per minute. It will burn through property either way. This area and all of the
Hills are a potential fire trap if the right conditions are pres ent. I as k you to do the right thing and deny the Anaheim Hills Fes tival Project for the s afety of our Hills
res idents .
Sincerely,
Al Murphy
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