Last night the Anaheim City Council was expected to ratify an agreement that calls for Angels’ owner Art Moreno to use $96 million of the $124 million in credits he was given in the sale to build 1,000 units of affordable housing elsewhere within the city’s limits over the next five years.

It appears there will be a resolution to the longstanding controversy over the city of Anaheim’s sale of the Angel Stadium property in regards to the need for more affordable housing units in the city. The good news is Huntington Beach will see at least $5.2 million in reimbursement for one loan and is hopeful it might get in excess of $30 million more on another, pending the judge’s final ruling. city attorney against the state seeking to recoup $75 million in funds owed it for redevelopment loans. The city of Huntington Beach rejoiced this week when news came that a judge ruled in its favor in a suit filed by the H.B.

Some of Westminster’s financial woes can be traced to an over-reliance on redevelopment funds, a program the state pulled the plug on more than a decade ago. The Westminster City Council has demonstrated reluctance to take steps that could put the home to 90,000 people in better financial shape and “has raised the specter of a city where parks are closed, potholes go unfilled, there are no programs for youths or senior citizens, and the police force is cut by 33%,” Do writes. Residents of the city of Westminster would do well to keep an eye on City Hall these days, which according to this in-depth look at the situation by my colleague Anh Do, is teetering on the edge of bankruptcy, something that could become a reality by 2024. A list of easy, relatively pain-free steps can be found here. can avoid similar restrictions in the near future, there are water conservation practices all of us can take, regardless of which California county we call home. Outdoor watering in those areas will be restricted to one day a week, the MWD declared, as the state’s reservoirs are at low levels and the region in an extreme drought. The daily production of 50 million gallons of drinking water promised by Poseidon seems to many to be a lifeline in these times.Įven as the fate of the Orange County plant is being debated, parts of the Southland counties of Los Angeles, Ventura and San Bernardino will face unprecedented water restrictions beginning June 1 as the Metropolitan Water District declared yesterday there is a water shortage emergency. Proponents of the Poseidon project say the desalination plant is badly needed, given that our planet is warming and water sources are evaporating. Opponents to the plant may be taking heart in a stance the commission’s staff recommended in a report issued Monday: Reject it.Īt this critical moment in the Poseidon saga, I highly recommend you read the article “Drought boon or boondoggle? Critics blast Poseidon desalination plan as crucial vote looms,” by our colleague Ian James, who dives into the controversy head first and explains the many environmental and economic concerns expressed over the project. The project is poised to be voted on by the Coastal Commission next month. The final permitting Poseidon faces is to obtain the approval of the California Coastal Commission before it can negotiate a contract to sell desalinated water to the Orange County Water District and begin construction of the facility on Huntington Beach’s Newland Street. On a close, 4-3 vote in April 2021, Poseidon Water’s project was given the go-ahead by the Santa Ana Regional Water Resources Board, despite opponents’ fears the plant will result in unreasonably high costs to water consumers, placing an additional economic burden on low-income Orange County residents. I’m Carol Cormaci, bringing you today’s TimesOC newsletter with the latest roundup of news and events.įor more than a decade a proposed desalination plant for Huntington Beach has been working its way through the environmental and bureaucratic hurdles necessary to tap into the Pacific Ocean to create drinking water.

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