Local News in Brief : Anaheim : Landowners to Fight Measure D on Ballot

A group of business and property owners who would lose land to the city’s $90-million intersection-widening plan on Tuesday announced that they were banding together to defeat a November ballot measure for financing the plan.

Calling themselves the Anaheim Committee for Traffic Solutions, the dozen or so members of the group said they hope to raise about $12,000 for their campaign to defeat Measure D, a $30-million city bond measure on the Nov. 8 ballot.

The group unveiled blue signs with hot-pink lettering and said it plans to post 1,600 of the ‘Vote No on D’ signs throughout the city.

But, Howard Sachar, president of the group, said he is uncertain the widening plan will die even if the measure is defeated.

“The indication at the last (City Council) meeting was that if it’s defeated, the voters don’t want the plan,” Sachar said. “But I’ll believe it when I see it in writing.”

The City Council approved the so-called “critical intersections” plan in concept at its Aug. 16 meeting. Under the plan, the city, beginning Jan. 1, 1989, can force property owners to surrender 12 feet of land along the 33 intersections in exchange for certain city permits.