Scott Drapkin News Today

Amendments to the city's cannabis laws represent an about-face in a process that's so far given a green light to the industry, as council opinions shift.

Leaders of Vista Meridian Global Academy obtained countywide approval and set about opening a Costa Mesa campus, after telling Newport-Mesa Unified they had no plans to operate inside district boundaries.

An Airport Land Use Commission determined nine identified sites could encroach into an "imaginary horizontal surface" set by the FAA to protect aircraft travel near John Wayne Airport. City Council members were unmoved.