San Gabriel Valley : DIAMOND IN THE ROUGH
Environmental activist Max Maxwell, who has led two successful referendum drives to scrap Diamond Bar’s General Plan, is threatening to force the issue onto the ballot again.
After a 3-1 vote by the City Council to approve a new General Plan--a blueprint for development of the city’s canyons and hillsides--the slow-growth leader vowed to take it to the voters.
Mayor Phyllis Papen said that the city trimmed the number of units substantially from earlier plans. The council’s plan “is quite a compromise,” she said.
But Maxwell says his group, Diamond Bar Citizens to Protect Country Living, has the 4,000 signatures to put its own general plan on the ballot.
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