Orange : city officials postpone decision on new road

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After listening to a staff report and public comment for almost five hours, city officials postponed a decision on construction of a controversial proposed road that would connect Imperial


Highway to Loma Street in Orange. About 200 residents crowded into the Orange City Council chambers for a special meeting of the Orange Planning Commission on Monday night. Attorney Marlene


Fox, who represents a group called ROAR--Residents Opposed to Arterial Roadways--told the commission that the noise that would be generated by a peak-estimate 46,000 vehicles per day on the


road contrasts sharply with the slow-growth pace of development in the city. City engineer Gary Johnson said that the road, which would run through Peralta Canyon, is needed because of new


and planned developments in the area and for emergency vehicle access. An environmental impact report was prepared in 1983, but residents convinced the city to consider five alternate routes


for the road. Planning commissioners will take up the issue again Aug. 12, when they are expected to recommend to the council approval of the environmental report and which route should be


selected. The cost of the project--about $3 million--would be shared by Orange, Anaheim and Southern California Edison. MORE TO READ