More officials across OC are asking voters to pay more in taxes warning that if they don’t they’ll have to cut public services as they struggle to generate revenue and face deficits.
Category: San Clemente
San Clemente, Orange County’s southernmost city, is home to about 63,000 people and a coastline and rail line that keep losing ground. We cover the City Council’s votes, its budget and the fight to save its beaches.
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Environmental Groups Say Saving Train Tracks Harms San Clemente’s Beaches
Orange County transportation officials have used rocks to strengthen the train tracks that run along San Clemente’s shoreline as erosion dwindles the beach down to a narrow stretch of sand. Activists say it will worsen the erosion.
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San Clemente Needs More Money For Sand
San Clemente City Council members are mulling ways to increase revenue to bring more sand to their disappearing beaches. They’re debating if a sales tax increase could be the revenue stream they need to fund bringing in more sand each year.
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Bolstering South Orange County’s Coastline
Trucks are dumping sand from the Santa Ana River on both North Beach and Capistrano Beach to help reverse the effects of erosion and widen South County’s disappearing coastline.
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San Clemente City Officials Set to Repair Storm Drains Damaged by Landslides
The storm drain and sewer lift station near the Cyprus Shore community have been operating with temporary systems since they were damaged in 2021.
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San Clemente Finalizes Switch to District Elections
During the switch to district elections, city officials grappled with just how to split the city up into voting districts without breaking up communities – an issue that cities throughout Orange County have grappled with.
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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 inHealth & Wellness
City of Orange Considers Leaving CA League of Cities Over Prop 1
City officials throughout Orange County have voiced concerns over existing drug rehab homes and now the City of Orange could bail out of a municipal lobbying organization for its support of a measure that could exacerbate the issue.
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San Clemente Clashes With OC Transportation Officials Over Beach Erosion
City council members unanimously called on the transportation agency to throw out its proposal to armor more of the coast, saying they need to focus on bringing sand to a vanishing shoreline.
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Transportation Officials Discuss Future of OC’s Collapsing Coastal Railway
After five collapses in the last three years, city and county leaders are looking to shore up an embattled coastline and study potentially shifting the rail away from the coast.
