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.
The proposed new center would replace Southern California’s temporary one in Los Alamitos. The only other such center is located in the city of Mather, covering Northern California….