Lot, broadcast on agenda tonight

Aside from selecting two new Planning Commissioners and two new Parks and Recreation Commissioners, Costa Mesa’s City Council will hear a few long-standing disputes between neighbors at Tuesday night’s meeting.

One of them centers on an Eastside home (or vacant lot where a home someday may be). Its owners, who also own adjacent properties on Orange Avenue, say they don’t have the money to finish construction.

They keep construction material and heavy machinery at the site, which is surrounded by screened fences, and neighbors have complained of noise at odd hours, and unsightly and unsafe conditions on the property.

A couple weeks ago, Todd Marsh and a few other neighborhood residents came to the City Council and lobbied the owners, Mike and Stephanie Keeler, to declare the house a public nuisance and force them to fill the lot (which currently only has a cracked concrete basement foundation) with dirt.

The council did declare the house a public nuisance, but that decision has been appealed and the city’s course of action is uncertain, as the Keelers have told the city the property is in the middle of litigation.

The other dispute is one that dates back a decade between Trinity Broadcasting Network, which has a large complex near South Coast Plaza festooned with lights, and Stacy Schofro, whose house butts up against it.

The two parties have gone back and forth for years in the courts and City Hall over complaints that TBN’s activities make an unacceptable amount of noise at odd hours of the day. Most recently, the Planning Commission thought they had resolved the issue by requiring TBN to install noise monitoring equipment around the premises in exchange for a permit that would allow the Christian television network to film up to 12 shows on their lawn per year.

TBN has appealed that requirement, though, saying they should not have to invest money to track their noise output when they only want a permit to film a dozen times each year.

Both issues will be heard after 7 p.m. at City Hall, 77 Fair Drive.

ALAN BLANK may be reached at (714) 966-4623 or at alan.blank@latimes.com.