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Date:3/3/2026 1:39:30 PM
From:"Arthur Dominguez" arthurrx@gmail.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@anaheim.net,
"Norma C. Kurtz" NKurtz@anaheim.net, "Kristen Maahs" KMaahs@anaheim.net, "Natalie Me e ks"
NMeeks@anaheim.net
Subject:[EXTERNAL] Strong Opposition to Festival Development
Attachment:Festival development Dominguez Letter 3.3.2026.docx;
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Arthur and Victoria Dominguez
851 South Sapphire Lane
Anaheim, CA 92807
March 2, 2026
Anaheim Planning Commission and the Anaheim City Council
Anaheim City Hall
200 South Anaheim Boulevard
Anaheim, CA 92805
To the Anaheim Planning Commission and the Anaheim City Council:
We are Arthur and Victoria Dominguez, residents of the Horizon HOA community in Anaheim
Hills. We have lived here since June 2022. Our recent move to Anaheim Hills from Rowland
Heights allowed us to experience a more serene and open landscape, and a wonderful way of
life. The Festival Development is a definite threat to our community because it is in a very high
fire hazard severity zone. Therefore, we are vehemently opposed to the Festival Development
Project.
We have thoroughly reviewed the project documents. The reasons we are opposed to this
development are as follows:
1. Dangerous Traffic Levels and Evacuation Process
A three-hour evacuation time is unacceptable to all residents of Anaheim Hills. As
detailed by the attorney opposing this project, “the Project’s Environmental Impact
Report (“EIR”) is fatally flawed in that its analysis of evacuation hazards rests on a
misinterpretation of the City’s Know Your Way plans. Indeed, the EIR assumes that all
traffic to the west of the Project would evacuate westbound, including the nearly 500-unit
Hills Preserve project, without interfering with the Project’s evacuation on already
constrained roadways. Yet, the City’s plans provide the exact opposite: that this traffic
would evacuate eastbound towards the Festival Center.”
The Hills Preserve project and Festival Center Project are less than 800 feet apart at
their closest points, and is assumed to have no measurable impact (0 minutes) on the
cumulative evacuation times presented. This is an impossibility.
2. Emergency Access
Due to the extremely limited egress options during an emergency, this new development
will be placing our community at great risk. Historically, there have been at least three
times in the past 30 years that evacuation out of Anaheim Hills has been necessary.
Safely exiting Anaheim Hills during an emergency already takes a dangerous and
difficult three hours, this development will add seven more minutes to this time. This is a
truly unacceptable risk for the community.
Approval of this project will only provide profits for the City of Anaheim, a city which
already collects immense profits from the Disneyland and California Adventure
properties. The risk of lives lost is much greater than the profits to be earned by the
Festival Development Group.
Sincerely,
Arthur Dominguez (626) 484-6221 arthurrx@gmail.com
and
Victoria Dominguez (626) 827-3521 vickield@gmail.com