In about a week, the city staff and officials of San Juan Capistrano, California, will move out of the current city hall—which has been functioning for decades as a temporary location—because the current 2.2-acre site will soon be demolished to pave way for a new city hall and an affordable-housing complex.
The city is selling 1.2 acres for $8.75 million to Jamboree Housing—a nonprofit housing developer in Orange County—as part of a contract to build a three-story apartment with 50 units and a two-story city hall.
On Friday, Nov. 18, city staffers will move to a temporary separate location, an office building on Rancho Viejo Road, where they will start conducting the city’s business the following Monday until January 2025, when the new city hall is expected to open….