The Orange County Board of Supervisors will consider allocating $20 million toward a veteran’s cemetery at Gypsum Canyon after city council in Anaheim, Calif., approved the location during a July 20 meeting. Council’s support for the site came less than a month after Irvine decided not to move forward with building a Veteran’s Memorial Park and Cemetery at the Orange County Great Park. “On [Anaheim’s] end, we’re not going to be the speed bump; we’re not going to be the hold up, as it turned out in Irvine,” Councilmember Jose Moreno said during the July 20 council meeting. “Even though they looked like there was a lot of momentum, for whatever reason, the politics of the place didn’t allow it to come to fruition.” The newly-proposed Anaheim site, called Gypsum Canyon, sits on 280 acres of land between the 91 freeway and 241 toll road in Anaheim Hills. Officials are still …
Anaheim Greenlights Veteran’s Cemetery Site
July 22, 2021
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