HomeMy WebLinkAbout1984-05-17 - Newport Harbor EnsignIRVINE'S INDEPENDENT NEWSPAPER
VOLUMES •NO. 52'THURSDAY,
by Eric Norn.
D.pit. cmuicmc.. from the
~ that a ~-stalled
redeHlopment of the Fu Zone
area on the Balboa PeJ'liuula
may be wut.r the way by Labor
Day, city officiaJa lGllt week omt
doubt• that the Sl0,250,000
renovatioll will 9"t be 8'ar\ed.
The project wae grcmted an
~th-hour reprJ.Y• from a
July 26 constructioa deadline by
the Newport B.ach Plml.ning
Commiwion Tbunday, May 10.
MAY 17, 1984 •24 PAGE$•25CENTS
However, at least one New-
port Beach city official eaid a
complex and time-oomu.miJlg
approval proc.m for the am-
bitious project could effecti~ely
kill the redevelopment before it
8ta:rla.
A. onginally oppio~ed in
1982, the Fun Zone redeftlop..
ment is elated to include con-
struction of a new thrN-.tory of.
fice and retltaurant buildillg,
an unusual two-.tory-d..p su.b-
tenanean parking garage, a
ferns wh .. l and a oaroUNl.
The lat.t glimmer of hope fo8
the pro1ect came at the Thun-
day, May 10, pl<DUUDg com.m.ie-
lion m .. tmg, when the com-
miaionen voted 6-0 to extend
, the deadhne for the start of con-
s tr u c h on to Labor Day,
September 3
Under the term1 of the
onginal UM permit for the Jll'O-
Ject granted OD July 26, 1982,
construction would ban had to
be under way by July 26, 1984 lo
preftnt the project from ••.u-
d..uucting''.
Fwi Zone la.nd owner o.hbie
Gray, howeftr, had argued th.at
the July 26 deadline WU1 unJair,
since the permit contamed a
r..triction again• llartiag COD·
struction until after Labor Doy to
cnoad snarling traffic oa the
Bal.boa Pen.iuuJa during tta.
summer months.
The com.misaonen. boweftr,
(C.ontinued OD page 2)
Besi8ents-OnJv ·
Parking Urged
lb11e• Saved
by Eric Norrb
A perm.it program that would
lunit parking 011 the crowded
Bal.boo Pen.in.aulo to r-de11lll
waa recomm•nded laat w .. k by
a city consukmt aa part of the
1olution to the penin1ula'1
1ummertime traffic woee
Les Card, a member of the
atudy team that prepared a
report on a propoeed transit
system for the pe01Mula. ecnd in
a telephone 1ntel'Vlew the permit
1y1tem would be needed to
"really for~ people" to UM a
propoeed mrunland parlnng
facility
Card, who WQ.I acheduled to
s~eak on the trafhc atudy this
Bayside Mobile Home
·Lease Conflict Settled
community cent.r overlooking
Upper Newport Bay aAd Do.er
ShorN. repr ... ntab._ of the
Baymde Village Homeown.,..
A.ocsation and 0. Aua signed
an agr .. ment that gumcmtMI
the residents at l.a.t ten more
yeon of time in the park.
The agr .. ment aleo bee cm-
Eve~• Could Pay,
Unde:r City .Trallic Plaza
which would moet likely be
collected in the lonll oi )Uglaez
bwJding pennit .._, an bcmed
on the en.rage traffic eoch type
of~il ~to
generate Boildinga that
generate more tJuffic, he laid,
will pay more.
The qutlltioa of bow mvdt
each de .. lopet alaoGld pay,
boweYei, waa compbcatld ..,_
week by the iadllliM GI a coa-
tioftllial .-..... ci Uai......,
Drift iA a JW OI...,... .,..._ •·
proftlDU .. hallcled .., .......
At cm ~ 17.l-eiDMe,
the eateuioa Of Uaiffmty
C1c:rG9 the ead of Upper N.w-
porl lay tepn199•t1 r099Wy
oae-tWrclcitll.eal4htW1 '*
-..~ At aa ......__ OOlld i!IMt
11 dOll, a.ow. ... Nicrrc. E....,.
(Coetuuaecl ce P9CJ9 3)
I nual rent increases to the c<J9t ot
uvmg, endang what one penon
called "horrendous · le<JM luk•
for 90me remdentl
AccorchnCjl to Ma tt Gemmill.
vice president of the
homeowners a11oc:1abon, the
agrHment SlCjlned laat week
r..Wted from 90me ten molltba
of negobabon.s with 0. Amo
The agr .. ment, be ecnd. al.a
contain.I a mpulabon that the
bomeownen drop a 1981 lawsuit
a~ 0. Anza
Gemmill 1 01d the battle
betw .. n bomeownen OAd 0.
An.90 began 111 1981, when the
land company aonounced that it
plann•d to rede•elop tile
bayfront park 1n 1985, when the
imt 2S-year le<IMe OJl lpx. H ·
pued 0. AJUo bod aJ.o r•
quited the trailer ownera to
notify any potubaJ buyen fot
ti.eU bom• that the park would
be d.ol• \.& 1985
AccordiAg to An SulliYaa,
daairman of the horneown ... •
.. ~. the me •
~llt ••'P'lt a tembJe 11b4iJDo
oa U.. park Nobody waalilc:l to
hay ~re. ~ daey bew
~ wo.ld bclft to mOff out lD
lid."
Foo.cl WI~ .... -of .. M•11, .. 1..W.M11Wo. .....
IUla Octd111, l•l.ia•.._,
to IMllt a. rdu1h,m1•of tlie
pafk. ~tadou °"' ....
cc.o.aa•-~I)
'
week to memben of the
Cbambez of Comnwrce, .ald a
combiDation of parking permits.
mainland parking ior ..ton
and Q lid OD land U. Oil the
pemn.aula may be needed to
cootrol traffic there
"U the pernut 1ystem wwe not
unplemented, we would ... the
ICUDe fhmg bappenillg tbai ..
... today The oty baa lo COO·
nnce people that thent are no
parking 9J>Cfce9 for them on the
pen.m.aulo," Card .md.
Tied to the permit .,.ID,
suggest.d Card, would be a
"1ub1tanhally tiaed remote
porking area" •rred by a abut-
tle system
Some abort-term parltillg lor
cu1tomer1 vimbng peuillaula
buao1•11 should be retc:Daed,
.ald C<nd, but "recreational
U8en" -pnmanly tounll9 -
ahould be "forced" to UM the
offmte parking lot
"Th• rec:reaboAal tnp lhould
be the tarvet of the city to c:ap-
hue in a trauit ..,...m," Card
IQld Othe.r dri~n. including
thaee tranling Oil and olf the
(Coab.Dueci OD pave 2)
' -
FAIRVIEW rec1eoU01aal JoolllUH. Tbe oriiJbiCil ........ cda11Miia.t
A cam.a cW Mm IDGll wae
ctritioellJ wouacl•d by FBI
I alt, ~. Mo, 12, dw-
.. r,.•O roud•p of ....,.ctl Ua
• WMt cntMrllMe cou.d "the
lcu9... wcotice ••twork lD
Orciag• CouatJ,'' pubU.hed
ICNloel repon.d.
Roeald D. Tiag, 25, woe 81.ot
la ti.. dMile wttk a~ hf a
melliaber of the FBI'• SWAT teaa at )a.II reatlld home at 869
Scndcxude Ori-.. in Corona del
Mar wla.ea he all.gedlJ bied to
&. at ogentll with o S.m.m pi.ttol,
90\lrC* r9p0rted.
Tin9 waa u..cl iD critical coo·
dltioD Mondor. May 14, at Fouo·
toia Valley Community
Ho.pital.
According to publiabed
aomoee, a total of 20 olleiged
drug dealera -16 in OtOllge
CoWlty -were orreeted last
week in I.he FBI IWMp. r our
othert were on..ted in Mionu.
More than 40 ezpen1ive
veb.icl ... $600,000 ln ca.ah and
almo1t 350 pound1 of pure
cocaiM Wid. o .treet Yalue oJ
SSO-mlll.ioa were .. 1 .. d by
OlltMrfM11
TU Oioage County drug
rlAg, ~ to publiabed
IOUIC*t, allegedly told more
tbcna 100 ldJogram1 of d.naga
eacla -..&, Worlh au ..timated
$400,000.
The tia ... tigotiora into the
dnao ring, eourc•• reported, bevan iD Ncwember 1982, when
U:do1mcm• tipped oH authoriti"
to huge diiag ahipment. lo and
out of the Huntington Harbor
meo.
FBI agent. eventually ob-
tained a court order for a
wireto"p on the telephone of one
alleged drug dealer, Alan
Charl• Mobley, of Hunti.n.gton
B.och.
Oeepite lmt week'• sweep,
thz .. of th• drug ring' 1 alleged
ringleaden were oat of the
country and eecaped captwe
Authoriti• lmt wMk indicated
they expected to ha.e the three
in cuatody IOOD.
(Collti.Dued from ~~ 1)
perk) and tM7'U hlow whof •
90109 oa, '' W eaver told.
Weo..-er odded that 1he wm •U1·
priMd to Jecuu of th• wunty'•
plana f01 lbe pcuk from a Co.I.
11 ... N••• article in February,
aad that th•y ccun• a. a eurprlee
to her and other reticle•• iD the
or.a.
The veneral plans were ap-
proved Moreb 28 by the county'•
Harbora, Beach.. and Parltt
Deportment detpite the
pr ... nce of rMidenlt in opJ><.*·
tion to the overnight oamping.
The county oima to have the
pmk operational by 1986
The primary attraction of a
oampsite or an RV campground
ia the opproJCimatelr 157,000 a
y.or it would net for the county,
according to an independent
report by Alfred Gobar
Aaaociotea. The enlile park
development will coet an •-
lmated SlO million, and may
mean a net loa of money oyerall
for about 25 year1, according to
DeANZA SETTLEMENT
(Continued from page 1)
leaaet hec;ion at the tame lime,
taid Gemmill, but did not begin
in eorn..t until 1mt year.
Barry McCabe, .tee prnideat
of 0. Anao and the company'•
chieJ negotiator, eaid the agrM·
meot wot reached both out of
concern for the r.mdent. and ior
the po9ibUity of a long legal
battle
''I'm alwaya more will.mg to
agree than to fight," McCabe
taid oJter laat Wffk' 1 eigni.ng
ceremony "The homeowner•
1poke pretty forcefully, and
brought it home that there' 1
more than 1u1t ecooornica here,
there are people."
McCabe taid the agreement
repr ... n• a "give-ond-take"
among the two parti .. , "We
won't be able to redevelop when
we want to, ond they'll be pay-
ing a little more (rent) than they
wanted to."
According to Gemmill,
however, an "overlay" aoning
designation for the park granted
by the city in late 1982 moy hove
strengthened the reaident1'
bargaining position
The zone overlay, he 9Clid,
requir• 0. Anra to pay reloco-
bon feft for each of the park'•
291 trailer owner• iJ the leaaea
are terminated. Before the new
zoninq wa1 approved, De Anzo
could hove evided the re11denta
without paying the relocation
fea
Mano and Rose Tartagho,
who have leased a apace in the
park 1ince 1969, 1a 1d they
applaud the agreement, which
will allow them to remain an their
boyfront home.
"All a ny of u1 ever wonted
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DELIVERY AVAILABLE
was to live here as long a1 we
could," aaid Tartaglia. "Now
we'll be here until al least 1994
We're ju1t hoping we con live
here the re1t of our lives "
According to Gemmill, the
Tartaglia• may be able to stay
until the yeru 2013 when De
Anzu'1 lease with the Irvine
Company ellp11e1
The 20l:J dute, he send, "is not
yua ronteed , but it c.:ould be im·
plied in the agreement " The
relahvely 1hort time between the
1994 ellpi ra tion o f the
homeownera' lea ses a nd the
2013 end of the De Anzo leuse
19 yea11 he 9Clid, may not leuve
the company eno ugh time tu
redevelop the property
McCabe, mea nwhile 10id thtt
company hos nut yet ded ded
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elaborate nature trail, water-
fo l I 1 , la ke•, and other
whether ii will redevelop the site
in 1994
"Righi now, we're not even
talking about redeveloping in
1994. Beyond l~. we'll juat
hove to see what hoppena."
According to Gwendelyn
Cheatorn, vice pre.ideut of the
bomeownert oaociation, the
pact 019<> provid• about hall the
park'• reaident., who pr ... ntly
live under yem-to-year leaaea,
with the opportunity lo eign a
long-term ogrffment
"Anyone who 1ign1 thi1
a greement will get the 9Clme
lease that we've been fighting
for .'' 1he toid
bldol ....... to ........
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PARKING PLAN
(Continued from page 1)
peointulo to work, he toid,
"don't contribute that much of
the traffic."
would limit growth to tbfi! lu11<l vf
development preaently in place
on the penintufo
"Th11 aa o great thing, ""
pecially in a time like lhia for
mobile home parka," 1aid
Greatorell
According to Gemmill, about
80 percent of the park's rnidents
have indicated they would sign
the leaae A few "diasidents," be
taid, were unhappy with the
1994 termination dote
Cord at.o 1uggested a revi-
lion of zoning lawt on the penin·
1ulo to reduce the potential for
growth there Much of the
1 peninsula, be aaid, could be
developed much more intenlive-
ly than it baa in the poet
"There ia a 1trong susµ11 .. 1• 111
that if the peoinaula developed
according to the general plr111
the traffic would be way over the
capacity of the trofffic "Y"'"'"'
With the more realistic lund Ul t"
plan, we might be able to keep
the trafJic where it aa nght now "
Traffic on the peninst1Ja. 1CJld
Cord, "aa at capacity nght now
You really can't Y"'' un y m u tt
cars on the streets "
To prevent e:irplocive growth
in bou1in9 and commercial
space, taid Card, the city 1hould
adopt a "trend" zoninq plan lbot
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