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The San Juan Capistrano City Council in a 3-2 vote shot down a proposal to oust Rob Williams from the Planning Commission over concerns that he has at least the appearance of a conflict of interest regarding a hotel project.
Planning Commissioner Rob Williams is facing possible ouster because he’s refused recuse himself from voting on a hotel development owned by Hollywood producer Steve Oedekerk. Williams has financial ties to a competing project.
Councilman John Perry has been hailed for suing San Juan Capistrano over its water rates. But his vote to award hundreds of thousands of dollars to a law firm in the case that made payments to him may have crossed ethical and legal lines.
An effort by the City Council majority to ban a crusading community newspaper from being distributed at City Hall has turned the town into a First Amendment battleground.
Supporters of Derek Reeve appeared at Tuesday night’s City
Council meeting to support his naming his dog after the Muslim
prophet.
Derek Reeve boasted that he gave his dog — an animal Muslims
consider particularly impure — the same name as the Muslim
prophet.
Peter Bastone says San Juan Capistrano City Council members
broke behind-the-scenes promises to approve a month-by-month lease
for a community social services organization.
San Juan Capistrano City Council will hold a public hearing on a new water use surcharge, which stems from a fuel additive leak blamed on Chevron.
The San Juan Capistrano City Council is scheduled to vote once again on a water surcharge that would cover costs related to additive leaks traced to Chevron gas stations.
About a dozen members of a grassroots political group, called
SJC Americans, have managed to influence city politics with a
combination of pressure at City Hall and a community
newsletter.