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Starting next year, it will be legal to sell recreational marijuana in California. But local governments will have a lot of say in where the shops can operate, and the majority on the county Board of Supervisors seem to favor heavy restrictions.
It was a major turn in a years-long development battle, with a split Board of Supervisors narrowly voting to kill the proposed senior housing project by the Catholic Church.
In January, Supervisor Todd Spitzer convinced his colleagues to reverse a zoning approval that was vigorously opposed by one of his clients, who pays him as much as $100,000 annually.
The proposed project was blocked Tuesday for 10-and-a-half months, after county supervisors approved a temporary ban on issuing building permits for the project.
Orange County Supervisors Tuesday passed a temporary moratorium on senior housing for a property in North Tustin, a preemptive move to cover the county’s legal liability after a recent Board vote to reverse a 2011 zoning amendment.
Tuesday’s vote on a project proposed by the Catholic Diocese reverses a 2011 vote by a different board that acted at the urging of then-Board Chair Bill Campbell to add senior housing in a North Tustin community.
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 and school district of Tustin are battling each other
over a recently built elementary school that is being used instead
as a continuation high school.
Check out David Nazar’s latest reporting on the senior living
project in North Tustin and an Orange County couple’s fight with
the county over damage to their home.