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COMMUNITY ullerto♥ n bsCAeLENrDAvR Paege 12r -15 FFULLERTON’S INDEPENDENT NEWS • Est.1978 O(printed on 20% recycled paper) • YEAR 37 #7 • MID APRIL 2015 Submissions: [email protected] • Contact: (714) 525-6402 • Read Online at : www.fullertonobserver.com Condoeezza Rice in Town: Headline speaker of this year’s Women’s Conference, former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, FRACKING , packed the Cal State Fullerton University Titan Student Union. PHOTO KATHERINE SMALL See story page 17 WATER , E NERGY 25% Mandatory Water Reductions AND SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES 7 . Imposed Statewide A 7 S D . 5 C I D ORUM AT 1 F CSUF U A For the first time in state history, Governor statewide consumer rebate program to replace E . N P T D O O Brown directed the State Water Resources old appliances with water and energy efficient E R R APRIL 26 N T G A O R Control Board to implement mandatory water models; require campuses, golf courses, ceme - T A S D I E T E The 2015 Orange County L N reductions in cities and towns across California teries and other large landscapes to make signif - S M R L A O P R Sustainability Forum will be held T U to reduce water usage by 25 percent. This sav - icant cuts in water use; and prohibit new devel - P E S F P ings amounts to approximately 1.5 million opments from irrigating with potable water from 10:30am to 1:30pm on acre-feet of water over the next nine months, or unless water-efficient drip irrigation systems are Sunday, April 26 at the Titan nearly as much as is currently in Lake Oroville. used; ban watering of ornamental grass on pub - Student Union Theater Following the lowest snowpack ever recorded lic street medians; and increase enforcement to University Conference Center at and with no end to the drought in sight, the discourage water waste. Cal State Fullerton, 800 N. State governor announced actions on April 1st that In addition the Metropolitan Water Board College Blvd. will save water, increase enforcement to prevent announced it would be considering a 15% cut - Speakers include Debbie Cooke wasteful water use, streamline the state's back on water to southern California and new of the Post Carbon Institute, Alex drought response and invest in new technolo - Fullerton restrictions will be upcoming. Nagy of Food & Water Watch, T gies that will make California more drought Although 80% of water in the state is used CSUF Professor Scott Hewitt, N and Ray Hiemstra of the Sierra E L resilient. for agriculture, restrictions on factory farming L D Club. Parking and admission to A To save more water now, the order will also: are not included on the list. Also not considered I C S the event is free. For more info 2 E Replace 50 million square feet of lawns are building and fracking moratoriums. Send S E 0 R I throughout the state with drought tolerant your suggestions for water conservation by and to register contact: Angélica E 4 R T V 6 González at (213) 387- 4287 ext. R landscaping in partnership with local govern - email to the State Water Resources Control - R T E E 5 204 V ments; Direct the creation of a temporary, Board at: [email protected]. S N 2 D B E 5 A - R O 4 low-income and below low-income units O R E 1 Fullerton’s Regional Housing Needs of the allocated need for that period. T 7 U H T C The Regional Housing Needs future residential development capacity is Western Center of Law and Poverty, N Assessment (RHNA) is prepared by the located in the Fullerton Transit Center I Legal Aid Society of OC, and the Kennedy R Southern California Association of Specific Plan area. O Commission challenged parts of Fullerton’s Governments and based on forecasted pop - The RHNA allocation for Fullerton in 2013-2021 Housing Element on the lack ulation growth during the new planning the new planning period is 1,841 units dis - of affordable housing and homeless hous - period, and the number of additional tributed as seen in table below. ing resulting in a California Department of housing units needed to accommodate Fullerton fell short of its affordable hous - Housing and Community Development additional household growth at all income ing goal during the last planning period of notice that revisions to the plan were need - levels. Each locality’s RHNA is distributed 2008-2013 building only 80 of the 727 ed. The revised plan was resubmitted and among five income categories. meets state requirements pending The RHNA is a planning goal. Cities are CATEGORY (INCOME LIMIT *) G OAL council approval at the upcoming not required to build, subsidize or issue April 21 meeting. Extremely Low.....($28,000).............206 4 permits for the number of housing units Changes included adding addi - 3 8 Very-low...............($48,150).............205 N 2 allocated. Rather cities are required to tional zoning capacity for afford - R 9 1 O 5 E demonstrate there are adequate sites with Low......................($77,050).............299 able housing with minimum den - A 0 T V 7 C appropriate zoning that could accommo - Moderate.............($104,650)............337 sity of 20 units per acre, and mod - R R X N E E date the amount of new housing in the O ifications to the Emergency O Above-Moderate..($104,650+)..........794 L S B T RHNA, if property owners and developers Shelter Zoning and Homeless R L B O TOTAL .............................................1,841 E P U choose to pursue such opportunities. Needs section to comply with L O L *Based on a family of 4 F According to the 2013-2021 Fullerton state law allowing shelters in any U F Housing Element the majority of the City’s 2013 OC County Median Income=$87,200 area zoned residential. Page 2FULLERTON OBSERVER COMMUNITY OPINION MID APRIL 2015 Coyote Hills is Fullerton PASSION FOR JUSTICE None of Your Business by Synthia Tran You asked on your front page (Early Observer April issue) the question about the use of Correction & Clarification land in Coyote Hills. The answer to the The Fullerton Observer Community question is that it is none of your business Newspaper, founded by Ralph and Natalie Kennedy and a group of friends in 1978, is On March 28, I saw the movie “Ride On the day of our escape attempt we what the land is used for. Don't be a staffed by local citizen volunteers who create, The Thunder,” a Vietnam war story of were told to take the bus to a village near busybody. It is not your property. publish, and distribute the paper throughout honor and triumph, written by Richard Vung Tau. Each of us wore two sets of Property rights are a basic human right. our community. Botkin and published by World Net clothes and carried a small bag. We were What you want to do with your own This venture is a not-for-profit one with Daily. The movie was directed by Fred led to a hiding place in a house where we property is your business. all ad and subscription revenues plowed back into maintaining and improving our inde - Koster and co-producer Kieu Chinh, a were to wait until nightfall when a guide Walt Rountree Fullerton pendent, non-partisan, non-sectarian com - legendary Vietnamese-American Actress. would lead us out to the boat. Well, the munity newspaper. The movie was screened at the Regency guide didn’t show up, and by 9pm, the Our purpose is to inform Fullerton resi - Theaters 10 in Westminster. For more homeowner told us our plan was spoiled, Last Days dents about the institutions and other socie - information please visit: http://www.ride - the police were coming, and that we of a Creative Business tal forces which most impact their lives, so thethundermovie.com/ should leave our belongings behind and that they may be empowered to participate Last summer, I was so pleased to learn At the end of the movie, there was a follow her into the woods. in constructive ways to keep and make these about a new shop opening on east private and public entities serve all residents notation that about 1 million people were We knew we would not have a chance Chapman (not far past Fullerton in lawful, open, just, and socially-responsible being imprisoned in the re-education to come back and claim our bags, so we College)—CREATE FROM SCRAP. ways. camps, whereas my figure in my carried them with us and went Through our extensive local calendar and Being a big supporter of re-use of many Early April column “Unnecessary into the woods with her. other coverage, we seek to promote a sense items our society thinks nothing of throw - Wars,” indicated there were only Each of us Shortly after, we heard mili - of community and an appreciation for the ing away, I was thrilled to save wine corks, values of diversity with which our country is 300,000. I feel the obligation to wore two tary style boots and heavy bottle caps, cardboard tubes, thread so uniquely blessed. make the correction and clarifica - steps, and we were instantly sets of spools, the cores from Scotch tape and tion if I may. surrounded by police! Oh clothes and other miscellany that can have a creative SUBMISSIONS : The original number of former how I wished we could disap - re-use. Submissions on any topic of interest are officers, soldiers, and public ser - carried a pear.