Local News in Brief : Countywide : Planning Commission Nomination Made

Steve Nordeck, a former mayor of Manhattan Beach who owns the Trabuco Oaks Steak House in Trabuco Canyon, was nominated to the County Planning Commission Thursday by Supervisor Gaddi H. Vasquez.

“Steve Nordeck comes to the position with significant experience in land-use matters and familiarity with the public policy,” Vasquez said in a statement. “A former mayor, councilman and school board president, he is skilled in receiving public input and reviewing technical data.”

Nordeck’s nomination will go to the Board of Supervisors for formal approval on Jan. 24. He will replace George Osborne, who has been on the commission since January, 1985.

Osborne, a former director of the county Environmental Management Agency, was recently appointed by the city of Fullerton to the County Water District Board of Directors. He said he was resigning from the Planning Commission to focus his attention on water problems.

Before owning and operating the restaurant, Nordeck served as a consultant to Dioptics Medical Products Inc. He also formed a real estate brokerage company and a real estate investment firm.

Nordeck served as a councilman in Manhattan Beach from 1972 to 1980 and was elected by the council to two 1-year terms as mayor. He was also president of the Manhattan Beach school board for a year, beginning in 1971.

Nordeck will represent the county’s 3rd Supervisorial District, which stretches from Mission Viejo to La Habra. The five-member commission decides land-use issues and makes recommendations to the supervisors.