Last week, OC’s City Selection Committee met at the Orange City Council chambers and went about filling seats on regional governing bodies with little controversy, including the election of Anaheim Councilman Jose Diaz to the Orange County Transportation Authority Board of Directors, However, the body deadlocked on electing the Orange County City Representative on the OC Local Agency Formation Commission, an ...

Tomorrow night, the Anaheim City Council will vote on a $6.6 million proposal to purchase the red-tagged Covered Wagon Motel on Beach Boulevard as part of its ongoing efforts to revitalize the troubled corridor and West Anaheim in general. The city intends to re-develop the property as a mixed-use development. The squalid, 70-room motel was shut down by city officials ...

A squalid West Anaheim motel that was a locus of human trafficking, prostitution, illegal drug use, and criminality has been shut down by city authorities, who described conditions at the Covered Wagon Motel as “inhumane” and “deplorable.” A team of about 20 city officials descended on the Covered Wagon on March 29. The officials came from various city departments: Planning ...

West Anaheim revitalization passed a major milestone yesterday with the demolition of the Americana Motel on Beach Boulevard, a classic example of post-war Googie architecture that had declined into a dilapidated public nuisance, ending it’s life as a sober living home. The city saved the iconic Googie neon sign and is in talks with a neon museum to preserve it. ...

Following are remarks given by new Councilman Jose Diaz on December 8, 2020, after he was sworn in to represent District 1 on the Anaheim City Council: I am honored to be speaking at this event as a newly elected council member. I want to begin by thanking God. He guides me in every step, and every action, and every ...

Another aspirant to represent District 1 on the Anaheim City Council has thrown his hat into the ring: Jose Diaz. Diaz is a Cuban immigrant who has lived for the last 21 yeas in Anaheim, where he and his wife have raised their four children. He works for the City of Orange, where he manages the Water Division of the ...