With the launch of ANAHEI’M FIRST by Anaheim Mayor Harry Sidhu at the State of the City on Tuesday, March 5, 2019, the next 10 years will bear witness to a total revitalization of every neighborhood in Anaheim with a $250 million proposed 2030 Neighborhood Investment Program.ĪNAHEI’M FIRST is a partnership between the City of Anaheim, Anaheim Chamber, Visit Anaheim, and the Anaheim Community Foundation. Our local economy continues to grow as a result of long-standing public-private partnerships that created the Disneyland Resort District with the opening of their largest main park expansion Star Wars: A Galaxy’s Edge this summer, Stadium District with World Champion teams Angels Baseball and Anaheim Ducks, and most recently the seventh betterment of the Anaheim Convention Center (ACC), maintaining the ACC as the largest, premier convention center on the West Coast.Īnd while our economy continues to thrive and tax revenue has grown exponentially to pay for expanded public safety, parks, libraries, community centers and other vital city programs many aging neighborhoods have been waiting patiently for the greater Anaheim community to focus on their quality of life needs. Mitch also chaired the Central City and Citron Neighborhood Councils.įor decades, the City of Anaheim has partnered with its business community to secure billions in private investment that today has made it a world-class destination with more than 24 million visitors worldwide.
In addition, he was a founding board member of the Anaheim Historic Preservation Foundation and served on the Anaheim Historic Preservation Committee. Mitch also served on Anaheim’s City Charter Review Committee, which examined how our city could govern itself more equitably and efficiently, and ultimately recommended the by-district election systems that have guaranteed District 3 a voice on the City Council. Mitch’s leadership in Anaheim is extensive including his services as Chair of the Anaheim Planning Commission, where he fought for a fair, inclusive city planning policy and to give residents from every community a voice when it came to their neighborhoods. Mitch founded the Anaheim Neighborhood Association with a group of passionate neighbors that is one of the most engaged and oldest neighborhood associations in Anaheim. As a young roofer and father working to support his family, Mitch bought a house in Council District 3 and quickly became involved in an effort to save the Central City neighborhoods, organizing his neighbors to save their homes and protect housing accessibility.
Mitch Caldwell is a lifelong resident of Anaheim for the past 56 years.
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