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Date:2/28/2026 7:37:54 PM
From:"Betty Forbes" bsforbes2002@yahoo.com
To:"Public Comment" publiccomment@anaheim.net
Subject:[EXTERNAL] Please vote NO on the Shea/Festival Center apartments %2�� It's a safe ty issue
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Dear Council Member,
I am writing to you as a res ident of Anaheim to as k 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, watching the s moke get clos er, and literally not moving for over three hours , it was a
total s tands till. My daughter was evacuated from Running Springs Elementary to Canyon High School and the bus s es were right next to flames on Serrano. A
terrifying memory. 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 has already met the hous ing capacity s o why then build in a fire zone? 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,
Betty Forbes &
Mikayla Shanholtzer (age 16)
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