OC Cities Fight Over Bid to Use 100-Acre State Mental Health Campus in Costa Mesa For Housing
San Clemente city leaders are pushing back on a plan proposed by Governor Gavin Newsom's administration to redevelop a mental health campus spannin...
San Clemente city leaders are pushing back on a plan proposed by Governor Gavin Newsom's administration to redevelop a mental health campus spanning over 100 acres owned by the state in Costa Mesa into housing. The opposition comes as the state is rolling out mental health courts, dubbed CARE Courts, that will begin ruling next week in Orange County on court-mandated treatment plans for homeless people wrestling with mental health issues or drug abuse problems. Yet there's still lingering questions on where homeless people in CARE court will be sent.