Orange County Development And Redevelopment

The Orange County Board of Supervisors has approved development of a private golf course in the Arroyo Trabuco, near the community of Ladera Ranch, but will require a paved public bike path through the course. The area had previously been zoned for sand and gravel extraction.

The Orange County Board of Supervisors has approved construction of a private golf course in the Arroyo Trabuco, near the community of Ladera Ranch, but will require a public bike trail through the course. The area had previously been zoned for sand and gravel extraction.

Orange County supervisors deadlocked Tuesday on whether to order an appeal of a judge's ruling that voided petitions on the Great Park ballot initiative. With Supervisor Chuck Smith out of town on county business, the remaining four supervisors split on the issue, which frustrated Supervisor Todd Spitzer because the appeal was recommended by the county's chief executive, Michael Schumacher, and county counsel, Laurence M. Watson. "They can't let their politics interfere," Spitzer said.

Gov. Gray Davis has vetoed a bill that would have pushed the state into talks to buy Bolsa Chica mesa. The bill, by Assemblyman Tom Harman (R-Huntington Beach), would have required the state parks department to meet with landowner Signal Landmark to figure out a purchase price for the 230-acre mesa and report back to the Legislature by April 2002. Davis said 90% of the area is already under public ownership. Developers initially planned a marina, hotels and 5,700 homes on 1,547 acres.

Organizers of a proposed initiative to build a park instead of an airport at El Toro said Wednesday that a judge's order invalidating petitions collected so far would affect 128,000 signatures, much more than the 50,000 originally believed. Len Kranser of Citizens for Safe and Healthy Communities said organizers did a more thorough count of the petitions after Superior Court Judge James Gray ruled Tuesday that the current signatures were invalid.

An Orange County judge declared Tuesday that supporters of a plan to build a large urban park instead of an international airport must start from scratch collecting voter signatures to put an initiative on the March ballot. It is the fourth time since May that supporters of the park at the former El Toro Marine base will be forced to restart their signature drive, raising serious doubts about whether they have enough time to collect the required 71,206 valid signatures to meet a Sept.

The majority of Orange County residents are against building an international airport at the closed El Toro Marine base, but support has increased slightly, a survey by Cal State Fullerton and the Orange County Business Council found. About 53% said they either "strongly oppose" or "oppose" building an airport there. About 47% told interviewers they either "strongly support" or "support" the airport.

The majority of Orange County residents are against building an international airport at the closed El Toro Marine base, but opinions are shifting, a survey by Cal State Fullerton and the Orange County Business Council found. Support for the airport has increased slightly, according to the survey, which asked in 532 telephone interviews "Do you support or oppose building an international airport at the [Marine Corps Air Station at] El Toro?"

Capping decades of discord and lawsuits, Dana Point officials and a property owner have signed off on a significantly pared-down plan to develop the Headlands, a scenic expanse of pristine coastal bluffs overlooking the ocean. The development plan settles a 1998 lawsuit between the city and Headlands Reserve LLC that had stalled plans to build homes on one of the last undeveloped oceanfront parcels in Orange County.

Rancho Mission Viejo Co. will unveil a preliminary development proposal today for the last large parcel of privately owned open space in south Orange County, angering environmentalists who had expected to be included in the planning from the start. "We don't even know what biologists surveying the land have found out there," Bill Corcoran, a conservation coordinator with the Sierra Club in Los Angeles, said Wednesday.