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Date:3/21/2026 8:34:28 PM
From:"Stacy McGee" slmcgee@sbcglobal.net
To:"Public Comment" publiccomment@anaheim.net
Cc:
"Ashleigh Aitken" AAitken@anaheim.net, "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 Meeks" NMeeks@anaheim.net
Subject:[EXTERNAL] Festival Center Project – Responsibility of the Anaheim City Council to Prote ct All Reside nts from Severe
Fire Dangers
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Dear Anaheim City Council Members,
I am writing to you as a resident of Anaheim Hills to ask you to please vote "No" on the proposed apartments at the Anahei m
Hills Festival Center. My family and I have lived in the 92807 zip code for 24 years. We have experienced many fires in the area
and have been forced to evacuate. The traffic in the surrounding areas is often gridlocked. The thought of adding hundreds of
new apartments and about 1000+ more people to that exact same escape route is terri fying to those of us who have actually
been in that situation.
The reports for this project say that adding these cars will "only" add about 7 minutes to the evacuati on time. But when you’re
already stuck for three hours and the fire is moving toward you, 7 minutes is a lifetime. We don’t have extra roads or "secret"
ways out of the Hills; we all end up in the same few lanes. Adding more people to a neighborhood that is already a bottleneck
during a fire just feels like a tragedy waiting to happen.
The city should not allow for additional housing in any area where people are already struggli ng to get out safely. Please don't
make an existing danger even worse. Approving a major new development without a proven, effective evacuation plan places
existing residents at increased risk. Public safety must be resolved before additional density i s considered.
The safety of all Anaheim residents should be a priority. If this proposal goes through you would be responsi ble for any injuries or
deaths that could occur when there is another fire in the area. For these reasons, I urge you to deny approval of the Festi val
Center until evacuation and emergency access issues are fully and transparently addressed.
With kind regards,
Stacy McGee