Center fund item pulled from council

A request from the Laguna Relief and Resource Center for a $100,000 loan to purchase a property at 2633 Laguna Canyon Road was pulled at the last minute from the Laguna Beach City Council agenda Tuesday.

City Manager Ken Frank said the item had been withdrawn and did not say when the council would take it up again.

The Resource Center is in escrow on the site, not too far from the center’s existing site at 3305 Laguna Canyon Road.

City staff has recommended approval of the loan, which would help create a multiservice center with emergency shelter and other services for homeless and needy people. The multiservice center “” including a shelter “” was one of the recommendations of the council’s Homeless Task Force.

The proposed new facility would provide temporary housing for as many as six people, according to a city staff report.

The center is expected to apply for a conditional use permit for the facility in September.

The funds were proposed to be obtained from the Housing in Lieu fund.

CINDY FRAZIER is city editor of the Coastline Pilot. She can be contacted at (949) 494-2087 or [email protected].