Officials say they'll fight a plan to build a regional emergency operations center on 15 acres of the state-owned site, identified as a housing opportunity site.
Those for and against the initiative, which would ease development restrictions in certain commercial and industrial areas, are sounding off as campaign dollars roll in.
City officials have big ideas about addressing the city’s housing needs, chief among them scaling back a 2016 initiative that aimed to give voters a say in large-scale development projects.
City officials Tuesday signed off on a five-year project labor agreement requiring nearly $80 million in capital projects be built by unionized workers.
Developers, protesters face off over One Metro West, going before Costa Mesa Council Tuesday
Opponents of One Metro West speak Friday with Brent Stoll of Rose Equities during a neighborhood block party at the OC Mix in Costa Mesa.
(Don Leach / Staff Photographer)
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Developers seeking to build a 15.23-acre mixed-use development with 1,057 apartments on an industrial area in Costa Mesa north of the 405 Freeway hosted a block party Friday days before the project will be heard by the City Council.
Held at the commercial SOCO and the OC Mix, adjacent to the proposed project location at 1683 Sunflower Ave., the rally was intended to drum up excitement and support in advance of a public hearing Tuesday.