10 (130)Date:2/28/2026 8:52:07 PM
From:"Janet Yount" janet-doug@hotmail.com
To:
"Public Comment" publiccomment@anaheim.net, "Ashleigh Aitken" AAitken@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 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 have lived in
Anaheim Hills s ince 1995. 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 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.
Anaheim Hills is not the place to build new hous ing. Our roads are impacted daily by the IE commuters . Santa Ana Canyon, La Palma and Serrano are the roads being
us ed, and adding additional vehicles on the road, from this apartment project would only add to the already heavily us ed s treets .
I unders tand that the city needs hous ing, but it s houldn't be built in a place where people are already struggling 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,
Janet V Yount
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