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Date:2/23/2026 12:39:28 PM
From:"Pragnesh Ray"
To:
"Ashleigh Aitken" AAitken@anaheim.net, "Public Comment" publiccomme nt@anahe im.ne t, "Carlos A. Leon"
CLeon@anaheim.net, "Ryan Balius" RBalius@anaheim.net, "Natalie Rubalcava" NRubalcava@anahe im.net, "Norma
C. Kurtz" NKurtz@anaheim.net, "Kristen Maahs" KMaahs@anaheim.net, "Natalie Meeks" NMe e ks@anaheim.net
Subject:[EXTERNAL] Please vote NO on the Shea/Festival Center apartments - It's a safety issue
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Dear Council Member, I am writing to you as a res ident of Anaheim to ask you to pleas e vote "No" on the propos ed apartments at the Anaheim Hills Fes tival Center.
I lived here during the Canyon
Fire 2 in 2017, and I will never forget the feeling of being s tuck in my car FOR 3 hrs , watching the s moke get clos er, and literally not moving for over an hour. It was n't
jus t "traffic"- it was a total s tands till. The thought of adding hundreds of new apartments
and about 1000+ more people to that exact s ame es cape route is terrifying to thos e of us who have actually been in that s ituation. The reports for this project s ay that
adding thes e cars will "only" add about 7 minutes to the evacuation time. But when you're
already s tuck for three hours and the fire is moving toward you, 7 minutes is a lifetime. We don't have extra roads or "s ecret" ways out of the Hills ; we all end up on
the s ame few lanes . Adding more people to a neighborhood that is already a bottleneck during
a fire jus t feels like a tragedy waiting to happen. I unders tand that the city needs hous ing, but it s houldn't be built in a place where people are already s truggling to
get out s afely. Pleas e don't make an exis ting danger even wors e jus t for a new development.
We are as king you to prioritize the lives and s afety of the people who already live here and pay taxes here. Sincerely,
Pragnes h Ray
Anaheim,CA 92808
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