Ontario council continues three public hearings — CFD 65, development ordinance, and Granada Theater eminent-domain — to June 4

The City Council opened three public hearings and then continued each to the council's next meeting on June 4 to allow additional review and to account for legal vote thresholds.

For Community Facilities District No. 65 (Fallon Crest), Mayor Leon read the required legal script and said more time was needed to review the infrastructure improvement list, costs and finalize acquisition and funding agreements; the council voted to continue the hearing to 06/04/2024.

On an urgency ordinance to amend the city's development code (file PDC A 204-1) to implement objective development and design standards for multifamily and mixed-use projects, the city attorney advised the item was an urgency ordinance and therefore required a supermajority for passage with only three members present. "My recommendation is to open the public hearing and continue this item to the June 4 council meeting," the city attorney said, and the council did so.

The council also opened a hearing on a resolution of necessity authorizing eminent domain for the Granada Theater Revitalization Project at 301 North Euclid Avenue. The city attorney again recommended continuing the item because the action requires at least four votes and only three members were present; the hearing was continued to 06/04/2024.

Each continuance passed with a recorded action to revisit the items at the next scheduled meeting; no substantive votes on the merits of the CFD, ordinance or eminent domain resolution were taken at this session.