Foothills Sentry September 2020

Foothills Sentry Page 2 PEACE OF MIND PROTECTION for your home or business S E R V I C E S I N C SECURITY JADTEC 714 282 0828 jadtec.com ACO4202 September 2020 “Success is a journey, not a destination.” By Samantha Kinnison It was early 2018 when Mark Kinnison, my dad, said he was going to run every street in the City of Orange. We looked at him like, “Yeah … okay, sure, dad.” Since then, my dad has run ev- ery street in the City of Orange and Villa Park. Why would he do this? My dad’s love for the city runs deep, and he feels most like himself here. My dad was born in a small town in northeastern Colorado. At the age of five, he moved to Orange with his mom. He attend- ed La Veta Elementary, McPher- son, and then El Modena High School, graduating with the ElMo Class of 1976. After high school, he moved around Orange County, but his love for the City of Or- ange never strayed. In 2000, my dad and mom pur- chased a house in Orange Park Acres, and raised my two broth- ers and me there. I am proud to say that one of my brothers and I are second-generation ElMo graduates. In 2016, my mom was diagnosed with early onset Al- zheimer’s. Since then, my dad has worked tirelessly to help support my mom and our family through the transition. I believe his deci- sion to run through the city was, on the surface, for exercise, but underneath, as a form of self- care. The energy the city gives off is like no other. The smell of the trees in Irvine Park and the feel- ing of the bricks under your feet at the Orange Circle have a heal- ing effect. At the end of 2019, he retired from his position at The Irvine Company as senior director for landscape operations. He now spends his days with my mom, consulting and running up and down the streets of Orange. My dad is currently 62 years old and has been running around Orange for the past 2.5 years. On either Saturday or Sunday morning, he would run, on average, five miles. Over the course of his 65-plus runs through Orange, that comes to around 325 miles. Give or a take a few. In late spring of this year, he accomplished his goal. Orange is a special place for my dad. He grew up here, met the love of his life here, and raised three children here. His passion is inspiring. Orange City Hall aids operators of East Orange eyesore By Tina Richards After ignoring citizen com- plaints about the mounds of con- struction debris piling up on the former Sully-Miller site in East Orange for more than a decade, the City of Orange was forced to acknowledge its existence via a notification to the state. To meet the needs of developer Milan Capital and its construction waste contractor Chandler Rio Santiago, the City of Orange told the state that the mounds of con- crete, asphalt, rock and slag were part of its municipal recycling plan. In other words, City Hall claimed the operation at 6145 E. Santiago Canyon Rd. is a “non disposal” facility used to separate recyclable materials from waste. Cities are required to include a Non Disposal Facility Element (NDFE) in their planning docu- ments and report it to the state. The NDFE identifies facilities used by a jurisdiction to help reach its state-mandated recy- cling goals. Those facilities typi- cally include material recovery, composting or processing, the steps taken to minimize the actual waste that goes into a landfill. Do it for the developer The East Orange operation was never part of the city’s NDFE. Until Milan needed it to be. Earlier this year, a resident complained to the county about the unpermitted construction waste stockpiling taking place along Santiago Canyon Road. The county arm of CalRecycle, the Local Enforcement Agency (LEA), investigated, and after months of wrangling with Milan and Chandler Rio Santiago, is- sued a permit for an “Inert Debris Type A disposal facility.” The permit, issued June 22, was contingent on the state’s ac- ceptance of an as-yet-unproduced reclamation plan, a cost analysis of the cleanup and assurances that the contractor had the financial resources to follow through. The permit also required the operation to be included in either the Orange County Siting Ele- ment (disposal facility plan) or the city’s NDFE. It was not on the county plan, nor the city’s. But Chandler Rio Santiago, having claimed on its permit application that the site was in- cluded in one of those elements, assured LEA that it was “work- ing with the city” to correct that oversight. Thus the city’s NDFE amendment was born. Paper works While inclusion on the County Siting Element requires a CEQA (California Environmental Qual- ity Act) review and a public hear- ing, an NDFE amendment does not. It can be handled administra- tively without public notice of any kind. Having been deaf to cit- izen complaints about the prop- erty for years, ignoring multiple opportunities to shut it down, and allowing it to continue unregulat- ed since at least 2003, the City of Orange sent an amended NDFE to the state on July 17. CalRecycle, however, rejected it on July 23. Contacted by an attorney for Orange Park Acres, who was appealing the June 22 permit, the state determined that the site was not for recycling af- ter all, but was, in fact, a reposi- tory for waste. As such, it was required to be on the county’s “Siting Element,” not the city’s NDFE. Milan and Chandler Rio San- tiago have since been ordered by the county to relinquish the per- mit and “cease and desist” the Tustin Foundation meets meal milestone The Tustin Community Foun- dation announced that it has de- livered its 2,500th meal to home- bound senior citizens. The foundation’s Friends Feed- ing Friends program supplements other services that provide meals Monday through Friday by pro- viding three weekend dinners. The program is funded by dona- tions and Friend’s Café, which offers a senior meal for every adult meal purchased for curbside pickup or delivery.