YORBA LINDA, Calif.—City Hall was filled to its maximum capacity Aug. 2 as many residents arrived on horseback just thirty minutes before city officials would meet to discuss state-mandated rezoning plans.
The city council approved a measure for over 20 sites Tuesday night that would be rezoned for housing to go before voters in November; but it postponed taking action on three sites, which included the site the city’s equestrian residents took issue with.
“The problem is the locations that they’ve chosen. We wouldn’t be here tonight if they chose, in our opinion, better locations,” 40-year resident and horse owner Dee Dee Friedrich told The Epoch Times. “Someone’s half-acre to an acre backyard with horses in with future apartments or condos looking into their fences and over their fence is not what we have in mind here.”…