Action
to rehabilitate Yorba Linda's historic Trueblood/Janeway house might
be on the horizon.
Fronting
Lemon Drive just east of the post office and visible from Imperial
Highway behind the city-owned railroad caboose near the Polly's Pies
restaurant property, the two-story building was once home to early
families and the popular Calico House fabric business.
But the
now-boarded structure was caught up in state rules regarding
dissolution of the city's Redevelopment Agency, ordered in 2012 as
part of the termination of some 400 agencies statewide.
The
4801 Park Avenue property was acquired by the agency in 2010, and
later that year the Yorba Linda Preservation Society was awarded “the
opportunity to renovate the structure,” according to a report from
Pam Stoker, the city's economic development manager.
Stoker
noted the agency's assets “were constrained under state mandate”
and “no action was allowed to be taken on agency-owned properties
during the dissolution process,” so rehab was shelved until a Long
Range Property Management Plan was adopted in 2014.
“One
of several legal requirements...was to identify each of the former
agency's land assets and prove the necessity for retaining the
property or indicate the intent to liquidate each parcel,” Stoker
stated.
Stoker
noted the city can keep the property “provided the site is
ultimately used for a related governmental purpose,” and she plans
to plans to present “a menu of options that may be available” for
the City Council to consider at an upcoming meeting.
Also
upcoming:
--A
linear park with about 7.5 acres of usable space to run along a
three-quarter mile stretch of Gun Club Road from Yorba Linda
Boulevard north to Bastanchury Road could be completed by the end of
the year, according to an extension of an agreement recently
council-approved.
The
developer Toll Brothers is paying for the design and construction of
the park, but the city will be responsible for ongoing maintenance
that's expected to cost some $30,000 each year. Three prior
extensions were granted for the park, with the current expiring Dec.
31.
The
park will be limited to passive activities, such as walking and
equestrian trails, along with a small parking lot and trail head
area, since major piping from three water agencies run under the
entire length of the property.
--Yorba
Linda High School will have a full-time School Resource Officer from
the county Sheriff's Department with the city and school district
paying about $65,000 each for 10 months.
Previously,
an officer split time between Esperanza and Yorba Linda high schools,
but now Esperanza will have a full-time officer paid entirely by
Anaheim.
--Work
will begin under new annual contracts for county animal care services
for $207,158; weed abatement for up to $26,500; and traffic signal
maintenance and “as needed” repairs for up to $140,000 at 57
intersections.