Orange County Supervisor John Moorlach has a plan to move the Orange County seat out of Santa Ana – to a 100 acre parcel the County owns next to the O.C. Great Park, on what used to be the El Toro Marine Corps Air Station, according to the Voice of OC blog.
The scary thing, for those of us who live in Santa Ana, is that Moorlach might be able to pull this off. I would expect Supervisor Janet Nguyen to oppose the move, as her district includes Santa Ana. But the rest of the Supervisors have no reason to oppose Moorlach’s scheme, except maybe for Supervisor Shawn Nelson who does have a law office located in Santa Ana.
Moorlach could however team up with Supervisor Bill Campbell, who has nothing to lose as he will term out in two years, and Supervisor Pat Bates, who represents south Orange County, to make this happen.
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I love Santa Ana dearly but I don’t care if they move the civic center out of Santa Ana especially if they take the jail with them. The Civic Center adds nothing to my life. It would be less traffic.
Uh, wouldn’t this move cost money? Yes, OC had grown on the southern end, but building a whole new county government infrastructure in the Great Parking Lot wouldn’t be free, would it? I guess Republicans can spend our tax dollars freely too.
Don’t worry. It’s just another one of Moorlach’s big ideas that always go nowhere. When people actually start looking at the cost, this will become unworkable.
But you can rest assured that some consultant will be awarded a contract to study the feasibility of the issue.
As an Irvine resident, I’m kind of mixed on this issue. Sure it would be nice to have the county seat at the Great Park, but if they can’t do crap when it comes to making any substansial progress on the Great Park (thanks to Boss Agran…all we have is a lot of hot air in the form of a huge orange balloon) where are they going to get the funds to build a civic center comparable to the one in Santa Ana? Or looking at the bigger picture, is this really a scheme by the county (with help from Moorlach) to take over the management of the Great Park from Irvine? If the latter is a case, watch for Boss Agran and his cronies to put up a fight.
Chumpmelewski at the FibOC supports this. Watch for him to flip flop and change his tune if the latter is true. After all, he is the greatest apologist for Boss Agran.
Good points. The DPOC headquarters is in Santa Ana. Their campaign office was there this past election. They partied here in town too. But all this could backfire on the Dems if Agran pushes it through. Folks in Santa Ana will not be pleased, I don’t think, to lose the County seat to Irvine.
A couple of thoughts….
1) I think there is more to renaming the “county seat” than merely moving the offices. Which could be done without officially changing the seat. I remember this being an issue elsewhere.
2) Joe Dunn was Bitch slapped a few years ago when he tried to move the court of appeals to UCI. I think in the end that bruhahaha only ended up costing the state millions in remodeling.
3) This is driven by powerful development powers who might gain. If anybody tells you otherwise, they are lying. A ploy to line beard boy’s pockets.
4) Will the State of California be forced to move too? They own significant real estate in Santa Ana. Much of which is for sale right now thanks to Arnolds short sightedness.
Government people like “Moorlach” love spending other people money, it comes from years of sleeping with the money whores.
Now is he talking about all of the government civic center? Except SA city hall of course.
That would not be a bad idea, since it would require, after the move to the new offices, that the old civic center be torn down and the land returned to a, “GREAT PARK” – like state. Central Orange County would finally have the area for a good size regional park.
Why in the world would Irvine be interested in a county government center. No property tax, no sales tax, high peak hour traffic generation. And it brings a lot of unregistered lobbyists and other lowlifes to America’s safest city.
What’d be the impact of this Art? The Fed building remains in SA, as would the county courthouse and adjacent jail, I would assume. There’s a lot of money invested there. Specifically what would be moved southwards? County clerks office? Records? Tax collector/Assessor?
Dear Mayor Quimby,
Oh, your comments are factual and truthful. Yes, a paid consultant will gladly receive tens of thousands of public monies for a feasibility study and the county supervisors will wallow in the campaign contributions from said consultant/s. The location of the innumerable licentious lobbyists is superfluous, as the leeches follow the elected officials who feed these grossly overpaid blood suckers to the determinant of the public.
Great!! Be sure to take all the homeless from the Civic Center to Irvine and be sure to tell the churches that feed the homeless in SA to serve them there!!! Bon Voyage!!!!!