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One council member’s 2020 campaign statements pertaining to a 15-acre housing development planned for the city’s north end caused a public hearing for the project to be canceled Tuesday. ....
Print The Newport-Mesa Unified School District’s plan to construct a $32-million performing arts complex at Estancia High School is being challenged by the city of Costa Mesa in a lawsuit that alleges the project has not undergone adequate environmental review. In a petition for writ of mandate filed in Orange County Superior Court this year, Costa Mesa City Atty. Kimberly Barlow said Newport-Mesa trustees approved the project in October 2019 and submitted plans to the state architect in November without holding adequate and timely public hearings. The city “and the public will suffer irreparable harm by respondents’ failure to take the required steps to protect the environment and follow mandatory environmental review in compliance with the law,” the document states. ....
Costa Mesa city, school officials in legal battle over $32M Estancia High School theater project A rendering of a proposed performing arts complex at Estancia High School in Costa Mesa that could be completed by 2023. City officials seek to overturn approvals for the project, claiming not enough environmental review was done. (Courtesy of Newport-Mesa Unified School District) By Sara CardineStaff Writer Print Newport-Mesa Unified School District’s plan to construct a $32 million performing arts complex at Estancia High School is being challenged by the city of Costa Mesa in a lawsuit that alleges the project has not undergone adequate environmental review. ....
Print The city of Newport Beach filed an amicus brief in support of the Orange County Sheriff’s Department late last week, while Costa Mesa issued its own brief with the same intent. The briefs come in response to a ruling in a lawsuit by Orange County Superior Court Judge Peter Wilson, ordering that the jail population be reduced in response to the coronavirus. The lawsuit was filed by the American Civil Liberties Union in April. Wilson ruled Dec. 11 that Orange County Sheriff Don Barnes had shown “deliberate indifference” to the substantial risk that the coronavirus can pose to medically vulnerable people in custody, which in turn violates their constitutional rights. ....