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Date:2/28/2026 5:54:17 PM
From:"DeWayne Filppi" dfilppi@gmail.com
To:
"Public Comment" publiccomment@anaheim.net, "Ashleigh Aitken" AAitken@anahe im.ne t, "Kriste n Maahs"
KMaahs@anaheim.net, "Norma C. Kurtz" NKurtz@anaheim.net, "Natalie Rubalcava" NRubalcava@anaheim.net,
"Carlos A. Leon" CLeon@anaheim.net, "Ryan Balius" RBalius@anaheim.ne t
Subject:[EXTERNAL] Festival project
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Mayor and Council Members,
I am a long time resident of the area. I'm writing in opposition to the Festival Project proposal, at least at this time on evacuation safety grounds.
The project puts the cart before the horse. The current evacuation plan is inadequate primarily because of insufficient infrastructure.
The city has acknowledged the shortcomings of existing evacuation capacity, yet accepts hollow promises instead of enforceable mitigation. The
Wildfire Evacuation and Awareness Plan is classified merely as a "Project Design Feature" (PDF HAZ-2) rather than a binding, fully enforceable
CEQA mitigation measure. Furthermore, this plan only educates the residents within the Festival Project; it does absolutely nothing to mitigate the
severe off-site impacts and traffic delays that will burden neighboring residents trying to flee on the same roads. The city rightly identifies the Santa
Ana Canyon road as a severely constrained evacuation hazard, and so cannot logically approve a massive influx of over 800 evacuating vehicles
from the Festival Center Project that will bottleneck into the exact same constrained corridor. The assumption by the developer that a fire in the
east (the far more likely scenario) would not cause an evacuation is irresponsible, as that zone was penetrated by Canyon Fire 2.
Let's try doing things in the right order: first produce infrastructure improvements that will speed evacuation, then perhaps contemplate adding
more residents.
DeWayne Filppi
455 S Country Hill Rd
dfilppi@gmail.com
714.512.1706