CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
September 15, 1999 | DAVID REYES, TIMES STAFF WRITER
Orange County supervisors approved a plan Tuesday to use $500,000 for revitalizing at least eight unincorporated neighborhoods where residents have complained about run-down houses, abandoned vehicles, gangs and crime. The county, for the first time in recent memory, is putting together a task force of agencies to attack all the major problems in a coordinated fashion. The task force consists of the sheriff, probation, planning, housing and social services agencies.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
December 19, 1996
City planners are studying the possibility of annexing the North Tustin area, a prospect that many residents in the unincorporated area of Orange County don't like. Mayor Tracy Wills Worley, who directed city staff to study the issue, said the idea was prompted by a letter from county Supervisor Don Saltarelli, who suggested that the two communities might benefit from becoming a single entity.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
July 8, 1995 | FRANK MESSINA
The city's four-year effort to annex unincorporated land to its northwest may be approaching a successful conclusion. The City Council said this week that it has a tentative agreement with Orange County on how tax revenue from the area would be distributed. Under the proposal, the city would keep all sales tax income--about $1.3 million a year--from the area, which has a large number of retail operations. The county would keep about 84% of the area's property taxes.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
July 22, 1995 | SHELBY GRAD
The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday is expected to give final approval to a plan by Laguna Hills to annex a 1.5-square-mile unincorporated community to the north of the city. City and county representatives last week completed negotiations on the annexation, which Laguna Hills officials have sought for four years. Most of the negotiations dealt with the legal wording of the agreement and on how the two government entities would divide tax revenue from the area, known as North Laguna Hills.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
July 14, 1996 | SHELBY GRAD, SPECIAL TO THE TIMES
Few people received a bigger jolt from Orange County's December 1994 plunge into bankruptcy than the 180,000 residents of its unincorporated communities, who rely solely on county government for basic services such as policing, public works and code enforcement. Nineteen months later, the Sheriff's Department continues to patrol the pockets of county land not claimed by any city, and the crime rate remains level.
CALIFORNIA | LOCAL
September 27, 1999 | DAVID REYES, TIMES STAFF WRITER
From her front room window, Gloria Lopez has seen her Colonia Independencia neighborhood age through the past half century. "I moved here in 1945, and I remember that some of the houses then were nothing but small, wood-framed homes built from the lumber off old railroad boxcars," said Lopez, former director of Colonia's community center.