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Memorial Park set to grow
The way has been cleared for potential expansion of Westminster Memorial Park and Mortuary.
At the April 26 meeting of the Westminster City Council, a request for a general plan land use amendment was approved.
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The request called for the redesignation of a section of land of about 17.3 acres within the 156-acre site from “park/open space” to “public/semi-public facilities.”
The site is located at 14800 Hoover St. (between Hazard and Bolsa avenues).
The facility faces Beach Boulevard. The change allows the property owners to use that land for cemetery purposes.
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Jim Tortolano
two generations earlier and probably a lot cheaper. In 1984, Orange County voters rejected a one-cent sales tax measure that would have built a longer and more elaborate system from Santa Ana linking much of the northern county with light rail all the way to the Los Angeles County line.
That followed on the 1974 defeat of a statewide measure to fund passenger rail projects all across California.
The impact on the OC of either of those proposals are incalculable. But we loved our cars too much to give them up, I guess.
More freeways: Orange Countians didn’t want mass transit, but they weren’t too happy about the alternative –more freeways – either. State transportation planners in the 1970s rolled out proposals for a wave of new roadways, including the proposed Beach Boulevard and Pacific Coast freeways.
The former would have paralleled (or perhaps been a doubledecker project on top of Beach Boulevard) all the way to the beach. The latter was planned to run from Malibu to Huntington
Most recently, it had been used as a golf driving range, but that business has since closed.
The next meeting of the city council will be held on Wednesday, May 10 at 6 p.m.
Deadline nears for Food of GG Media Challenge
Garden Grove Unified School District high school students, grades 10th-12th, are invited to participate in the Foods of Garden Grove Social Media Challenge, a unique opportunity for local high school students to be featured on the Foods of Garden Grove social platforms.
