Local News in Brief : Costa Mesa : Home Ranch Issue to Go to Electorate
The City Council has decided to place two measures on the November ballot that will allow voters to decide the course of the Home Ranch development project.
The first measure, sought by a group of neighborhood slow-growth advocates, would allow area residents to decide whether the Costa Mesa General Plan should be amended to allow a 3.1-million-square-foot office project to be built.
The second measure would allow a scaled-down, 2.2-million-square-foot plan, proposed in May by the developer.
On July 27, developer C.J. Segerstrom & Sons asked Orange County Superior Court Judge Tully H. Seymour to invalidate the measures, and a court hearing is scheduled for Aug. 24.
The 94-acre Home Ranch property is located near the San Diego Freeway between Fairview Avenue and Harbor Boulevard.
The larger version, a $400-million complex, which would include office space, shops, a hotel, a health club and a child-care center, was approved in February by the City Council. The scaled-down version would include two large office towers.
The council voted 3 to 1 Monday to put both measures on the ballot.
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