Newport Beach has "grown" by 64 to 83 (depending on who's article you believe) acres, getting West Santa Ana Heights from The Orange County Local Agency Formation Commission yesterday. This essentially also, as Byron De Arakal says here, pushes Banning Ranch into Newport Beach's fold in the next year. Byron also succinctly details how Costa Mesa tried to negotiate Newport's annexation of West Santa Ana Heights into getting a piece of the 357 acre to 412 acre (again, depending on who's article) Banning Ranch from Newport Beach. For a minute, the County of Orange's Local Agency Formation Commission almost agreed, linking the two properties together, but Costa Mesa's "dream" unanimously ended yesterday by LAFCO, with discussion for the much bigger Banning Ranch continued for another 6 months. Newport Beach already plans for use of Banning Ranch in their new General Plan and calculated it's potential Traffic loads and parkland in it's future, so you know that Newport's City Council will by lobbying for it feverishly.
Oh, here's Geoff West's view on why Costa Mesa never had a chance on getting West Santa Ana Heights...
Riveting news...
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