SANTA ANA
City officials will file a lawsuit this morning against the Orange County Transportation Authority and will file an injunction this afternoon in an attempt to block the sale of a 31-acre lot for use as a bus maintenance yard.
The City Council authorized the action during a special closed-session meeting Wednesday, citing the OCTA’s failure to complete a mandatory environmental review of plans for a maintenance yard in one of the last undeveloped lots in the Santa Ana Empowerment Zone.
The OCTA board voted last week to spend $23 million to purchase the Associated Concrete lot located on MacArthur Avenue near the Santa Ana River to build the maintenance yard. The OCTA board expects the facility to create about 500 jobs.
City leaders want to see a large manufacturer develop the property, the only site available in the zone for a 150,000-square-foot or larger business that could create up to 1,600 jobs.
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