Fullerton Observer

Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library Congratulations to All Fullerton’s Graduates! Fullerton’s Only Local, Independent Newspaper • EsL 1978 (printed on recycled paper) VOLUME 23 # 314 • JUNE 15, 2001 JUNE 15 2001 FULLERTON OBSERVER American Dream: All We Are Down Payment Saying Is Assistance I f the American dream of owning your Give Sheep own home seems out of reach for your fam ily, the City of Fullerton may be able to help A Chance make that dream come true. The city will be accepting applications in July for its by Kyle Bates Down payment Assistance Program (DAP) which provides financial assistance to quali- M y mother says everything could be fying applicants who are first-time fixed if only people still had manners. homebuyers. Qualifying applicants must be first-time “Everything?” I ask. homebuyers who will make the home their “Everything. ” primary residence and whose annual in “World hunger?” come is 70 percent or less of the median “Yes." family income set by HUD. PLEASE RETURN TO THE “War?” There is no interest on the 30-year loans. FULLERTON PUBLIC LIBRARY “Sure." The maximum loan allowable is $45,000. 353 W. COMMONWEALTH AVE. “Poverty? Drugs? Gang violence? The terms of'the payback are that there are FULLERTON, CA. 92832-1796 The ozone?” no payments for the first 15 years of the “All o f it.” loan, with payments on the principal only Above: HAVE YOU SEEN THESE SHEEP? Thirty fiberglass sheep sculptures “Religious oppression? Indiscrimi for. the duration of the loan. Applications painted by local artists will continue appearing around downtown Fullerton for nate acts of terrorism? Child will be processed on a first-come, first- the next few months as part of a Chamber of Commerce campaign to highlight abuse? Racism? The rain forest? served basis. Heartbreak? Man’s inhumanity to This is the ninth year of the DAP pro Fullerton and remodel the Chamber meeting room. man?” gram and approximately $900,000 in rede “ Yes. ” velopment funds have been made available Fullerton Joins “The sheep?” for loans. For further information call Linda “Definitely the sheep. ” Morad’s Housing Programs Office at City A JgL In Affordable Continued page 9 Hall (714) 738-6883 * • Housing DTSC OK’s Cause of State’s Lawsuit Housing Shortage City Council voted unani Proposed School mously to join in a lawsuit Explored p „ n m tpi.jii11 if. launched by Southern California at Hughes Site A. new study ot California’s housing Association of Governments (SCAG) against the Department The California EPA Department of affordability and availability notes that Toxic Substances Control has reviewed where economic growth is strongest, the of Housing and Community De velopment. Growth projections and approved the preliminary environ shortage of housing for low- and medium- mental report ori the proposed Amerige income earners is most acute. Such short prepared by SCAG in Novem ber 2000 were based on avail Heights Elementary School site located ages, according to Dr. Radha Bhattacharya on the former Hughes Aircraft Com of Cal State Fullerton, who conducted the able information at that time and Fullerton’s updated 5-year pany property on Malvern. study this spring, can be alleviated through The report was submitted for DTSC Housing Element report was several methods. They include: adoption of review by Environmental Audit, a com inclusionary zoning that stipulates a mini based on those numbers. New information from the pany hired by the Fullerton School Dis mum percentage of low- and moderate-in- trict to determine the safety of the site. Department of Housing and come households in new developments, in The company tested for various sub creased development capacity of existing Community Development in Cal State Fullerton’s creased the amount of affordable stances that plague other parts of the sites through more intensive use of land, re property and found that the 10-acre site laxation of growth-control measures, and Affordable Housing in housing needs for the Southern California region by adding held no threat to human health. streamlining procedures to lower costs. “In The parcel was part of Hughes Air 66,000 more units. California, a unique set of circumstances has Buena Park craft Company property sold to the According to a development created a shortage of housing in general, with Taking a significant step closer to offering affordable hous Raytheon Company which sold 293- the problem being acute in land-constrained, ing to its faculty and staff members, Cal State Fullerton broke services background report rec ommending the Council join the acres to developers LSFII SunCal in high-growth counties, such as Santa Clara ground on an 86-home development in Buena Park at 11 a.m. 1998. Traditionally used for agricultural County and Orange County,” Bhattacharya Wednesday, June 6. Situated on eight acres at the corner of lawsuit “some of these units could be allocated to the City of purposes from at least 1950 to the mid noted. Malvern Avenue and Dale Street, the $ 17 million effort — named 1990’s the parcel has been left unde Bhattacharya identified areas in Califor University Gables — will comprise 56 single-family residences Fullerton.” Although the issue was first brought to Council’s veloped. Based on the information pro nia where middle-income affordability has and 30 townhouses priced from the mid-$ 100,000s for attached vided in the report, DTSC determined shrunk and estimates the number of low-in homes to the low- to mid-$200,000s for detached residences. attention Tuesday June 5th the decision to join the lawsuit was that no further environmental investi come families living in those areas. She re Completion of the project is scheduled for late summer 2002. gation or cleanup of the parcel is re viewed the forms of low-income assistance Surveys conducted over the years have shown a consistent made by City Manager Jim Armstrong in an April 26 letter quired. in use, examined the forms of assistance af demand for affordable housing from 300 or more CSUF faculty The next step in the process involves fected by planned middle-income housing and staff members. With student enrollment steadily increasing, to SCAG authorizing the city’s participation. approval of the California Department assistance, and suggested steps that policy the demand for affordable housing, also is expected to grow. of Education which will evaluate the makers might take to ensure that the solu “Every year we have faculty positions that go unfilled be proximity of the proposed school site tion to making housing affordable for cause candidates made housing costs the determining factor,” Historic to the airport and other safety factors. middle-income earners does not adversely said Jay Bond, associate VP of facilities management. To en Eventually if the project moves forward affect low-income families. “The median sure that the housing continues to be affordable to members of Walking Tour the school district will hold a public price of an existing, single-family detached the CSUF community, owners must agree to abide by resale re Historian Warren Bowen meeting where questions can be an home in California in October 2000 was strictions. In addition the below-market prices do not include swered and comments received. $252,510, while for the United States as a ownership of the land itself, only the houses. will guide the Fullerton Heritage Historic Downtown Walking The property is located north of whole, it was $138,200,” she noted. “The Pictured above are representatives of the public-private part Hughes Road above the part of the California Budget Project Report tells us that nership including: Bart Hess, director of the OC Affordable Tour Saturday June 23 from 9:30am to 11:30am. The group property where historic spills have cre over the last decade, California has gone Homeownership Alliance; William Dickerson, executive direc ated a plume of toxins that have pen from being a leader of innovative state hous tor of the CSUF Housing Authority; Cynthia Coad, chair of the will gather at the Museum Cen ter on the comer of Pomona and etrated the aquifer. Because Fullerton ing policy to a laggard,” said Bhattacharya. OC Board of Supervisors; Dr. Milton Gordon, president of Cal gets 75% of the city’s drinking water The study including an abridged version fo Wilshire near downtown. There State; Buena Park Mayor Arthur Brown; Stan Oftelie, president from the aquifer this situation is being cusing on Orange County can be found at of the OC Business Council; and Conrad Sick, sr. vice president is no charge. For more informa tion call 738-4410. carefully monitored by DTSC and http://www.csus.edU/indiv/w/wassmerr/ of Ambling West Developers. clean-up requirements are pending. housingshortage.pdf r Know Fullerton • Read the FULLERTON SMALL 1 OBSERVER Enclose $20/year ENOUGH 1 PRESORTED PO Box 7051 Fullerton Observer ($30 outside Fullerton) STANDARD U.S. Fullerton CA TO TELL POSTAGE 92834 PAID 1 NAME: Phone THE | FULLERTON CA (714) 525-6402 ADDRESS: TRUTH | PERMIT NO. 1577 L j Courtesy of the Local History Room, Fullerton Public Library Page 2 FULLERTON OBSERVER Community Opinions JUNE 15, 2001 Small Enough to Tell Small Business Hurt by the Truth if You’re a Native F u lle rto n Energy Price Gouging Liberal We in California are having a major energy crisis. American O b serv er “Small enough to tell the truth” - yeah if Several energy companies (mostly in Texas) are gouging you’re a liberal!!! How about evening up the California by charging obscene rates (most of this is due School The Fullerton Observer, .founded by Ralph playing field a little? Your paper definitely to the deregulation of energy here in California a few years Kennedy in 1978, is a group of local citizen- favors articles, editorials and comments from ago).

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