Environmental
Hotel plan raises school parking, safety concerns
June 11, 2010
Brittany Levine, The Orange County Register
Some parents express
worries that the proposed 124-room Plaza Banderas hotel, restaurant
and commercial project in San Juan Capistrano could further
restrict already tight parking at a nearby elementary school. Fears
of being squeezed out of already scant parking drove residents'
concerns at the first public meeting about environmental issues
related to a proposed three-story hotel on the old Mission Inn
property. "I just don't understand how the traffic is going to
work. I can't get my hands around it. It doesn't work now," said
Tim McCanna, whose kindergartner goes to San Juan Elementary
School, near the
site of the proposed 124-room Plaza Banderas Hotel at the northeast
corner of Ortega Highway and El Camino Real…