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Anaheim City Councilmembers will decide Tuesday if they’ll allow 58 condos to be built in wealthy Anaheim Hills, while a debate on where to put new housing in the city is bubbling up between city leaders and residents.
After nearly two hours of public comment, City Councilmembers postponed their vote on a controversial 58-condo development to Jan. 28.
Anaheim City Councilmembers this week will vote on a 58-condo development in Anaheim Hills, raising questions about where to put new housing in the city. Last March, the Council authorized 39 condos in an already packed, working-class neighborhood, despite residents’ pleas to lessen the density.
The county is transferring property on the eastern edge of Anaheim for potential development as a veterans and civilian cemetery. Supervisors clashed over whether it would let Irvine “off the hook” for a proposed veterans cemetery at the former Marine Corps Air Station El Toro.
Orange County Fire Authority executives came under renewed criticism Tuesday for the slow response to the large Canyon 2 Fire, after a county investigation found numerous breaches of protocol caused an 80 to 85-minute delay in taking action.
“There are things we could have done differently,” Interim Fire Chief Patrick McIntosh told reporters at a news conference Wednesday.
Anaheim will scrap an existing fireworks program that Mayor Tom Tait says disproportionately benefits Anaheim Hills residents for a more limited program where only 16 nonprofits will participate each year.
A recently released city report challenges claims by activists that wealthy Anaheim Hills receives more than its share of city resources. Activists and others say the city report is fatally flawed.
The civil rights group asserts that Anaheim must carve out city council districts so poor neighborhoods are adequately represented.
The civil rights group says Anaheim must redistrict the city to ensure more Latinos are elected to the City Council.