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Orange County backcountry activist and land use attorney Gloria Sefton talks about the constant development pressures on Orange County’s land use specific plans, especially those in the canyon areas, and her numerous successful lawsuits to defend the public planning process for canyon residents.
An appeals court blocked the Esperanza Hills project because supervisors approved it without minimum evacuation standards.
Paul Cook, general manager for the Irvine Ranch Water District and Brian Lochrie, a spokesman for Poseidon, which is proposing a desal plant in Huntington Beach, both talk about the pros and cons for taxpayers and residents about desalinated water.
Academics, advocates and activists met for a panel discussion at UC Irvine to hash out the pros and cons of a proposal to build a desalination plant in Huntington Beach, with environmentalists once again warning it would damage marine environments and raise water bills.
The eclipse provided a crescent view of the sun in the late morning for people at the Santa Ana Civic Center.
San Francisco’s Embarcadero and low-lying cities such as Huntington Beach will flood more frequently and more severely.
Fullerton’s Hillcrest Park soon will have a $724,000 pedestrian bridge crossing a creek that separates the sidewalk on Harbor Boulevard from the park’s veterans memorial, but will anyone use it?
California’s commitment to clean fuels assures a reliable demand for low-carbon fuels where even cows have a role to play.
OC Supervisors could reverse a 2011 board decision to allow the construction of a senior living facility in North Tustin, a project of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange that has drawn heated opposition and court challenges from local homeowners since it was proposed in 2009.
The city council may end its contract with the public employee pension plan and also support a state delay in increasing gasoline and diesel taxes.