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Residents, safety experts urge council to delay Festival Shopping Center housing over evacuation, traffic and fire risks
Summary
Scores of residents and former first responders urged the Anaheim City Council to reject or delay the Festival Shopping Center residential proposal, saying evacuation modeling and infrastructure plans do not reflect worst‑case fire scenarios and asking the council to reopen public comment when the developer revises the project.
Scores of Anaheim residents, local safety experts and former first responders urged the City Council on Feb. 11 to halt or significantly revise a proposed residential project at the Festival Shopping Center, saying the site is in an extreme fire‑hazard zone and that existing evacuation modeling underestimates worst‑case risks.
At the podium, a string of speakers described years of wildfire experience in Anaheim Hills and called the proposed development "a foreseeable public safety failure." A former Anaheim Fire Department member told the council that a wind‑driven wildfire in the canyon is "100%…
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