[ February 8, 2012; 4:00 pm to 7:00 pm. February 11, 2012; 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. ]
SANTA ANA, CA (February 3, 2012) – Over the next year, the City of Santa Ana will be working closely with residents to update the General Plan Circulation Element and develop “Complete Street” policies.
Attend one of the upcoming community Open Houses and share your ideas and suggestions for:
• Reducing traffic congestion
• Improving traffic flow
• Getting [...]
The Public Right of Way is 156 ft at its widest, runs 24 feet wide most of the length and the narrowest is 17 ft wide at Jack Fisher Park
The City of Santa Ana’s acting City Manager has made public a memo that is not good news for the Floral/Fisher Park [...]
[ January 28, 2012; 9:00 am to 12:00 pm. ]
Community: City of Santa Ana Scheduled to Host a Community Graffiti Clean-up Day
SANTA ANA, CA (January 11, 2012) – In promoting the City’s graffiti abatement efforts, Santa Ana Public Works in collaboration with residents, community volunteers/ organizations, and city contracted graffiti removal crews will host a Community Graffiti Clean-up Day, this Saturday, Jan. 28.
Frazee Paint / [...]
Posted in Civic Affairs, Crime, Entertainment, Neighborhood Associations, Santa Ana, Volunteer 
Tags: clean-up day, danell mercado, graffiti, memorial park, Santa Ana 
No Comments »New Orange County Board of Supervisors Chairman John Moorlach has challenged “officials from the city of Santa Ana over his plans to use a defunct bus station in the midst of Santa Ana’s downtown to feed, and potentially house, homeless people,” according to the Voice of OC.
Our County government has done a poor job of [...]
Update: The Santa Ana City Council voted unanimously this week to approve the proposed changes to the Santa Ana Ward Maps. Past mayoral candidate Thomas Gordon is now in Ward 4, which is represented by Councilman David Benavides. Gordon will not be able to run against Councilman Sal Tinajero in Ward 6 – ever.
The Santa [...]
Santa Ana Planning Commissioner Sean Mill and I drove down to the Culture Carnival – an all night musical event, with art, that was supposed to start at 7 pm on Friday night, in a warehouse in southwest Santa Ana. But we had a feeling that the event was not going to go as planned.
I [...]
Posted in Arts and Culture, Civic Affairs, music, Planning, Santa Ana Tags: code enforcement, Commander Ken Gominsky, culture carnival, permits, planning, sapd 5 Comments »Santa Ana Police Department
Advisory: WANTED HOMICIDE SUSPECT & UNSOLVED 2011 GANG HOMICIDES
The Santa Ana Police Department Gang Unit investigated six gang related homicides in 2011. Four of the six homicides were solved with a total of seventeen suspects arrested. Two cases remain unsolved and one suspect remains at large. The Santa Ana Police Department offers [...]
Posted in Civic Affairs, Crime, Paul Walters, Santa Ana Tags: gang homicides, jesus canales, police, rewards, sapd No Comments »The battle to finish the Santiago creek bike trail that currently ends under a bridge, just south of the Main Place Mall and Memory Lane, in north Santa Ana, took an interesting turn today as various letters and emails that were requested by the bike trail proponents were emailed by Santa Ana City Clerk Mary [...]
[ January 10, 2012; 3:00 pm to 4:00 pm. ]
City of Santa Ana, Downtown Orange County
Friday January 6, 2012, 4:03 PM
Advisory: PRESS CONFERENCE ADVISORY Santa Ana Redevelopment Agency and Related California Break Ground on Station District
SANTA ANA, CA (January 6, 2012) – On Tuesday, January 10, 2012 at 3:00 pm at the project site at 600 N. Lacy Street in Santa Ana (Corner of Lacy [...]
Posted in Civic Affairs, Development, Entertainment, housing, Santa Ana Tags: Development, groundbreaking, housing, Santa Ana, station district 4 Comments »According to Santa Ana’s Chief of Police and Acting City Manager, Paul Walters, the overall homicide totals from January 1st through December 31 decreased 59% from last year. There were 29 homicides in 2010 and 12 in 2011.
In 2011, the number of gang related homicides decreased by 45%. There were 11 gang-related homicides in [...]
City of Santa Ana, Downtown Orange County
Tuesday January 3, 2012, 5:42 PM
Alert: Water Shut Down for Bristol & Fifth Streets Area
Beginning Wednesday, January 4, 2012, between the hours of 7:30 am to 3:30 pm, water services will be shut down for the area of Bristol & Fifth Streets. This will allow crews to transfer water service [...]
Posted in Civic Affairs, public works, Santa Ana, water Tags: 5th st., bristol, Santa Ana, shutdown, water No Comments »A Cover Charge at Proof? No bueno!
UPDATE: Santa Ana City Manager Paul Walters sent me an email today confirming that the City is looking into the issues raised in this post!
Chapter One: the Modern Local, a restaurant in Downtown Santa Ana, is promising a fun night tonight, which includes dancing – as per their Facebook [...]
Pick up the print edition of the Orange County Register or visit their website online and you will certainly come across article after article focusing on negative issues pertaining to Santa Ana. In what can only be described as biased reporting against our city and our city leaders, the Register and its staff appear to be [...]
Posted in Civic Affairs, Orange County, Public Safety, Santa Ana Tags: andrew galvin, Orange County Register, Santa Ana 22 Comments »Our posts about Santa Ana’s Cafe Lu and Councilman Bustamante topped the charts in 2011
What a year it has been here in Santa Ana – and on this blog, the New Santa Ana. Since January 1, 2011, we have had 226,798 Visits and 407,051 Pageviews. Wow! That’s not bad for a blog that was started not too [...]
Posted in Civic Affairs, Councilman Carlos Bustamante, Councilwoman Claudia Alvarez, Councilwoman Michele Martinez, Dave Ream, Mayor Pro Tem Claudia Alvarez, Politics, Santa Ana, Tom Daly Tags: al amezcua, alfredo amezcua, cafe lu, Carlos Bustamante, Claudia Alvarez, george collins, kinde durkee, mexican mafia, Michele Martinez, pete ojeda, Santa Ana, Thelma Meléndez de Santa Ana, tom daly, year in review 4 Comments »Bikeway and Pedestrian Master Plan Update
Work efforts are underway for the City of Santa Ana Circulation Element Update. This project includes updating the existing Santa Ana Bikeway Master Plan and creating a Pedestrian Master Plan. Currently, the existing conditions of bicycle and pedestrian facilities are being inventoried and mapped. User needs assessment that requires community [...]
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