While city staff and council members touted the possibilities, similar programs haven’t always panned out in Orange County.
Monthly Archives: April 2024
Posted inCountywide
County Transit Leaders Consider Shelving Live Streaming Decision Amidst Potential Headquarters Relocation
The Orange County Transportation Authority’s executive committee discussed allowing the public to watch them from home and the potential relocation of agency headquarters, considering both issues in tandem during Monday’s meeting.
Posted inSanta Ana
Santa Ana Bans Short-Term Rentals
Santa Ana officials explicitly banned short-term rentals like Airbnb becoming the latest city in Orange County to prohibit such rentals amid noise, parking and trash complaints.
Posted inTop Stories
Mission Viejo Considers Creating a Multi-Million Dollar Theater
The city is in the early stages of considering how to afford a 300-seat performing arts theater. Preliminary data estimates it would cost around $8 to $12 million to create the theater, but that’s not including costs to purchase a new building.
Posted inOutdoors
San Clemente’s Budget Shrinks Along with the Coast
As city leaders are dealing with a series of landslides and vanishing beaches, they’ve spent millions from the city’s reserve budget trying to stabilize the problem.
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Girand and Nelson: Coastal Conflict, Trains or Beaches?
OCTA plans to spend $200 million this summer to armor parts of 7 miles of endangered coastline in San Clemente and Dana Point using riprap boulders that exacerbate erosion. Coastal advocates are demanding environmental reviews and a thorough cost/benefit analysis before South Orange County beaches are obliterated.
Posted inSanta Ana
Why Did Santa Ana Pay Out Over $600K to Settle a Claim Alleging the Police Union Runs City Hall?
Santa Ana officials decided to settle a claim alleging city hall is essentially controlled by the police union instead of fighting it in court before even launching an investigation into the matter.
Posted inOutdoors
OC Equestrian Center Boarding Rates Set to Nearly Double by Next Year
The OC Fair & Event Center Board of Directors narrowly approves a hotly-contested boarding rental rate increase that critics say will decrease public access at the equestrian center.
Posted inHousing & Homelessness
How Are Orange County’s Cities Doing At Building Affordable Housing?
Self-released scorecards from cities highlighted which ones moved forward with thousands of new housing units and which ones failed to build anything.
Posted inCommunity Opinion
Daus: Don’t Sell Off Huntington Beach Public Library
The conservative council’s attempt to privatize the library is disingenuous, ill-conceived, and smacks of impropriety.
