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The proposal for homes on an old quarry site has both supporters and opponents — and lots of campaign money behind it.
In-person voting has been cancelled for a special recall election in Westminster. It’s still up in the air whether Santa Ana’s special recall election will follow suit.
Council members initially approved the project last year, despite a push by some against the much-disputed 2525 N. Main St. apartments in the city’s north-end Park Santiago neighborhood.
But even if voters passed the two referendums, which oppose the building of luxury hotels with large tax subsidies, they would not stop the developer from going ahead with the projects or receiving city tax breaks, city officials say.
UNITE-HERE, which represents Anaheim Resort district employees, is collecting signatures to put two luxury hotel development deals before voters in November, after failed attempts to engage the projects’ developer on a labor deal.
Members of a residents group opposed to the city’s One Broadway
Plaza project say the developer should have paid for a special
election in which voters approved the project. Harrah says no
way.
Effort seeks to force a citywide vote on the Orange Park Acres
project.
Opponents vow referendum to stop building plans on one of the
city’s last areas of open space.
City Council unofficially agrees to a developer’s plan for one
of the city’s last remaining tracts of open space.