‘Rainbow’ Flag Goes Up For First Decision

Also on the agenda; legal battles and a new policy on invocations

By Jim Tortolano Orange County Tribune

A proposed ordinance that would ban the display of most non-government flags – including that of the LGBTQ “rainbow” banner – on city property goes before the Huntington Beach City Council when it meets on Tuesday.

At its last meeting, the council voted 4-3 to direct the city attorney to draw up an ordinance limiting the flags to be raised at city hall and other mu- nicipal property to the national, state, city, POW/ MIA and other government flags such as that of the county.

A large and loud crowd showed up at the Feb. 7

Six-story, 53-unit apt. complex is approved

cases declined slightly to 1,426 from 1,443 last week. The total of deaths fell to 15 from 45.

Hospitalizations rose to 170 from 164, and the number of new patients being treated for CO-

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A proposal to build a sixstory, 53-unit apartment complex in the city’s hotel district was approved unanimously by the Garden Grove Planning Commission when it met on Thursday.

Investel plans to build on a two-thirds acre site on Choisser Road, located north of Twintree Lane and east of Harbor Boulevard.

The proposed development would be located across the street from the Sheraton Hotel and south of “Site C,” planned for a two-hotel development