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Date:3/1/2026 11:11:21 AM
From:"MRSPETERWRIGHT" nolansmom01@hotmail.com
To:"Public Comment" publiccomment@anaheim.net
Subject:[EXTERNAL] Please vote NO on the Shea/Festival Center apartments
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Dear Council Member,
As an Anaheim resident, I'm asking you to please vote "No" on the proposed apartments at the Anaheim Hills Festival Center.
Like many other Anaheim Hills residents, I lived here during the Canyon Fire 2 in 2017, and I'll never forget the feeling of being stuck in my car,
watching the smoke get closer, actually seeing flames!, my minor son with me, and my car not moving along the evacuation route for what seemed
like forever. Like me, my boy was terrified.
There has been talk of expanding or updating the evacuation route, but the plan keeps the roads the same. How can there be any improvements to
them to accommodate at least 1000 more people and even more cars to that exact same escape route? Where is the logic I'm missing?
The 2018 Camp fire (Paradise, CA) should be a chilling lesson. Hundreds abandoned their cars because evacuation traffic wasn't moving, so they
tried to outrun the fire on foot. In the end, 85 people died, making the Camp fire the deadliest wildfire in California history.
We can't predict the weather for a wildfire, so let's model for worst-case. If winds are at a sustained 35-40 miles per hour with 60 miles per hour
gusts, how long before neighborhood and surface streets are overcome and blocked due to flames? These evacuation routes were proven to be
overcrowded in 2017. How will the City's evacuation plans accommodate the additional 1000+ cars?
The City reported the additional cars would only add approximately 7 minutes to the evacuation time. How many people in Paradise, CA cooked
in their cars in just 7 additional minutes?
Will there be lawsuits because the City was warned with facts and models and scenarios and history and chose to build anyway?
News outlets are reporting that self-deportation and increased enforcement in California are driving a significant decline in the state's immigrant
population, creating severe labor shortages and economic instability.
A report from the Brookings Institution studying the latest population estimates released by the Census Bureau found that a drop in immigration
dramatically slowed population growth in actually almost every state last year.
Does the City really need housing with the decrease in California population?
Please reconsider the Shea/Festival Center apartments and vote no.
Thank you for your time,
Mrs. Linda Wright
30-yr resident of Anaheim Hills