WHAT HAPPENED: The City Council approved...

WHAT HAPPENED:

The City Council approved a grant application to the Orange County

Transportation Authority for funds to provide weekend and holiday

trolley service from Act V to Downtown during non-summer months.

WHAT IT MEANS:

The Transportation Demand Management Program grant application,

due on Friday, will ask for $40,000 that will cover 75% of

operational costs of running the weekend and holiday service for the

first year. The city would be required to fund $13,000 the first year

and $50,000 in addition to wear and tear on one of the city’s trolley

vehicles the following year.

WHAT HAPPENED:

The council continued a proposal to construct street and drainage

improvements on Thurston Drive and convert it to a public street.

WHAT IT MEANS:

The council determined that more investigation is needed to

determine if any damage will be inflicted on neighboring properties

due to water flow.

WHAT HAPPENED:

The council sustained an appeal of an administrative decision

regarding 955 South Coast Highway.

WHAT IT MEANS:

City staff contended that the staking for this project represented

the plate height rather than the required roof height. The council

did not find grounds for deliberate misrepresentation that would send

the project back to the Design Review Board. Iseman dissented.

WHAT HAPPENED:

The Council granted the appeal of an administrative determination

regarding a landscape plan at 1380 Pacific Way.

WHAT IT MEANS:

The council reversed the determination of city staff that the

landscape plan for the property was valid and correct. The plan was

directed for the Design Review Board.