Jan Horton » lakeview http://www.horton4yl.com Yorba Linda News You Can Use Sat, 28 Jan 2012 05:39:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Volunteers Needed for Yorba Linda Lakebed Clean-up! http://www.horton4yl.com/community-events/volunteers-needed-for-yorba-linda-lakebed-clean-up/ http://www.horton4yl.com/community-events/volunteers-needed-for-yorba-linda-lakebed-clean-up/#comments Tue, 03 May 2011 21:53:16 +0000 Jan Horton http://www.horton4yl.com/?p=1377


To All:

It’s time once again to ask you all to come out and help us clean up the trash

in the Yorba Linda lakebed.

We will meet at 8:00 am on Saturday, May 21st at the Buena Vista entrance.

If you have not been there before, the entrance is about 200 yards east of the intersection

of Lakeview Avenue and Buena Vista Avenue. We are checking to see if the county can

provide a truck to haul out the trash we collect.

Please bring your own trash bags and gloves.

We hope to see you there.

Bill Walker

www.yllfa.org
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This Tuesday night’s Council Meeting we will discuss the cost to rehab the old homes on Lakeview, School and Valencia. Estimates range from $24,836.70 to $71,054.00 without landscaping, re-plumbing and I cannot see in the bid whether the electrical is updated. Some of these homes were built in 1917 and will probably need more work than you can actually see upon inspection. That means change orders. The water and gas have not been hooked up for years so this will need to be inspected and additional costs may be incurred. Although this was an idea I brought up at a Council meeting soon after my election as providing a short term solution to affordable housing, this cost appears to be too great and will take funds and attention from the town center development plan. At one point, I contacted an agency that does provide funds to rehab homes for rental use, even if the need was temporary. This agency felt the cost:return ratio was too great. Total cost to rehabilitate all of them as some members of the Council want to do will cost at least : $537,242.50!!! This can only go higher! More information from staff will hopefully clarify the possible options available to us. I believe one or two of the homes are significant enough to preserve at some level, preferably by a private owner. I am not currently in favor of saving all of the homes, especially since we do not have consensus on the vision for the town center.
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