Costa Mesa : City Council Will Vote on Home Ranch Project
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 also will 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 & Sons 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 the scaled-down version of the project at its meeting Wednesday, and will probably set Sept. 20 as the date for a citywide referendum on the larger plan, according to Mayor Donn Hall.
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, Hall said, in which time Segerstrom could return with another proposal or begin work on the smaller Home Ranch project.
Wednesday’s meeting will begin at 6:30 p.m. in the council chambers.
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