10 (031)Date:2/27/2026 8:07:32 AM
From:"Jen McCool" mccooljen@yahoo.com
To:"Public Comment" publiccomment@anaheim.net
Subject:[EXTERNAL] Festival proposed project
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First off I want to say I’m disappointed in the fact that any development in this area will have the same negative impact and speaking in them
individually appears to be a waste of valuable time.
I also think before and vote is placed that the people voting should experience living here in daily traffic. If you vote for any project here you have
never tried to escape a fire.
The know your way while I understand the idea behind it, it’s not realistic at all and in an actual fire senario we need to escape or get up any
location we can to protect our family. Know your way really does nothing except flood all cars to the freeway which all neighboring cities are also
heading the same direction.
Yesterday on a Thursday it was 30 min between Weir and imperial with an average speed of 3-6 mph. Then I will attach a video from Weir and
Serrano around 4.
This area of AH just like Yorba Linda, Villa park and OPA are single and double lane roads with no shoulders and no center dividers so unlike
downtown areas when there is traffic there is NO WAY for escape or fire or police or ambulance etc to get through.
Wayz has turned this entire area into a flood of cars cutting through to the IE.
Please understand even without a fire a nearly 3 hour window to maybe get out is not ok and with puts of in parking lots or stuck on weir Serrano
or Santa Ana canyon and small streets to them in our cars.
I have shared my story before. In last fire I got hit by a fire tornado realizing I could not get out, my husband took hours to get to EL Rabcho to
get our son and get to my parents house in Yorba Linda which was also evacuated where homes burned. Our daughter was at Orange Lutheran
and a family took her to there home in VP which was evacuated where they then tried to get to another home in OPA that was evacuated roads
closed all cars stuck on streets. We were unable to get to her till the middle of the night, then unable to get back together as a family as 4 cities
were evacuated and not allowing cars or people back in dues to loss of homes and spot fires.
Festival well I’ll just leave this right here, my husband said it’s like the TITANIC they built thus big beautiful boat with not enough life vests, they
knew it and in the end we all know how that panned out.
This new proposal no different from the rest does not help our streets our daily life our ability to leave our homes or ability to get out in a fire. The
structure is grossly underestimated and with not enough spots the structure and lower deck of festival would be taken over which would also
impact and destroy current businesses which we desperately need here.
What I think you all should be looking at is Savi ranch when YL built those apartments it was impossible to get in and out most times, it turned red
on crime map, and nearly every business with the expectation of three have gone out of business, it’s a area heavily avoided and difficult to get to
and from anyway do to the changes. It’s a mess really.
I’m tired of listening to union workers speak about temp jobs that leave a permanent dangerous disaster behind. You know with the way things are
most of us can not just pick up and move to get away.
Also fir the last 5 years straight Anaheim has seen a decline in residence and a trip to google or 1 of 100’s of articles will tell you they are all
leaving to south county to get away from the traffic the high density and the crime, they want clean open streets. Dog parks , trails, less crime, less
people. Instead of developing anything Anaheim should be building open clean spaces. You already know this though.
Please I’m asking and I guess begging at this point our quality of life and restriction of movement in our community is at an all time high. The city
will be responsible going forward with damage death ambulance and fire personnel that can not make it to us even in a Tuesday in an emergency.
We do not and will never have the set up as a downtown area.
Please also note that Yorba Linda turned down project on LA palma directly across the way no builders remedy either due to evacuations and fire
and we are in it worse over here. Time to put us first please. I know you can do the right thing for the people instead of city pockets. Let us work
together to make the entire city a place to go to not to go from.
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