Costa Mesa Officials Concerned Planned State Emergency Center Incompatible With Its Housing Goals

The Civic Center in Costa Mesa, Calif., on Nov. 16, 2020. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times

Costa Mesa officials are expressing concern that plans for California to build an emergency operations center on a portion of the state-owned Fairview Development Center—a now-shuttered hospital for the developmentally disabled—may impede the city’s plans for building housing at the location.

Officials responded with a letter in April to the state’s plans to use portions of the site to develop an emergency operations center that would function as a hub for 11 counties.