The approval came after an organized group of residents raised a series of concerns, especially regarding fire evacuations. But the developer argued his project would act as a buffer between existing homes and a wildfire.
Yearly Archives: 2015
Posted inGarden Grove, Health & Wellness, News Briefs
Latino Advocacy Groups Threaten Garden Grove With Lawsuit Over District Elections
MALDEF and the state League of United Latin American Citizens is demanding the city implement by-district elections or the groups will seek a court order compelling the city to do it.
Posted inAnaheim, Government, Housing & Homelessness, Top Stories
Plans For OC’s First Year-Round Homeless Shelter Move Forward
Longstanding efforts to establish Orange County’s first year-round homeless shelter took a major step forward Tuesday, when county supervisors started the process to buy a building in a commercial area of Anaheim.
Posted inCountywide, News Briefs, Santa Ana, Top Stories
Santa Ana Council Approves Wellness Resolution
The resolution calls for the Fourth Street to be branded Calle Cuatro, the establishment of a mercadito, community microfarms and a committee to promote economic development.
Posted inGarden Grove
Garden Grove Could Abandon Vietnam War Museum
Begun as the brainchild of former Mayor Bruce Broadwater, plans for a Vietnam War Museum in Garden Grove could be abandoned after city council members last week questioned weak fundraising for the city-subsidized project.
Posted inCountywide, Government, News Briefs, Top Stories
IT System Outages Hit Multiple County Departments
Major computer and phone network problems have affected county agencies in recent days, including taking out all of one department’s systems for a full day, according to officials.
Posted inAnaheim, Countywide, Outdoors, Top Stories
Anaheim Considers Selling Last Parkland Near Platinum Triangle
The seven-acre site was bought with money specifically for parks in or near the Platinum Triangle. But city officials want to sell the land and use the profits to improve a park somewhere else in the city.
Posted inCountywide, Government, Investigative, Top Stories
Lights, Camera, Action! Inside OC’s Jails
Orange County Sheriff’s Department manipulated the media, but the tactic has led to allegations that rights of jailed inmates were violated.
Posted inCountywide, Investigative, Norberto Santana Jr.
Santana: Meet the County Cleaner
Santana writes that county supervisors are set to reauthorize a murky program – set up to investigate top officials’ misdeeds. Except, no one’s ever heard much about how these are done, how much they cost. And the biggest probe in recent memory, involving the County COO, seems stalled.
Posted inAnaheim, Countywide, Fullerton, Health & Wellness, Investigative, Top Stories, Transportation
Website Blurs Line Between Journalism and PR
“Behind the Badge OC,” a site dedicated to the good deeds of police officers and firefighters, and paid for by local police agencies, is both winning local journalism awards and raising eyebrows.
