Santa Ana Heights Bayview Project
A few weeks ago the Orange County Board of Supervisors voted to force 134 homeowners living on half-acre lots in Santa Ana Heights from their homes. This was to protect them from the ravages wrought by their proximity to John Wayne Airport.
On May 1, these same supervisors will probably authorize construction of the Bayview Project, also in Santa Ana Heights. This huge development lies under the takeoff pattern of private aircraft leaving John Wayne.
The Bayview Project includes a 300-room “resort” hotel, two large office buildings, two parking structures, commercial buildings, multi-family residential units and single-family units.
The density of the single-family residential area is of particular interest. There will be 147 single-family units constructed on the 17 acres of land directly adjacent to Upper Newport Bay and the State Fish and Game Preserve.
This will be a gated community with a single access road on the Jamboree Road side of the project. A comparison may be made with the density of Balboa Island and its single-road access, but at least Balboa Island has sidewalks on both sides of the street and a ferry boat escape at the opposite end.
Why should we desecrate a rolling hillside overlooking Upper Newport Bay, a treasure we should preserve, with such high-density construction?
HAL AEBISCHER
Santa Ana Heights
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