Events in the news this week.

The Costa Mesa City Council will vote at a special meeting Wednesday night on whether to approve a scaled-down version of the controversial Home Ranch development. The meeting will also include a public hearing on establishing land-use and population-density standards for the project, which C.J. Segerstrom & Sons wants to develop on a 94-acre site bounded by Harbor Boulevard, Fairview Road, Sunflower Avenue and the San Diego Freeway.

Segerstrom originally set out to develop the Home Ranch project as 3.1 million square feet of office and retail space, a hotel and a day-care center. But the developer, citing “respect for the community’s concern about development,” recently offered to reduce the size of the project to 2 million square feet.

The City Council will vote on that scaled-down version Wednesday and is expected to set Sept. 20 as the date for a citywide referendum on the larger plan. If the referendum fails, Segerstrom can proceed immediately with the larger development. But if the referendum succeeds, it would halt the original larger project for about a year, in which time Segerstrom could return with yet another proposal or begin work on the reduced Home Ranch project.