The Costa Mesa Motor Inn, once one of the city's biggest targets, plans to go to the city for approval to demolish the current structure and construct a four-story housing apartment building.
The common grounds at the Costa Mesa Motor Inn includes a pool, barbecue area and kids play area. Costa Mesa city leaders recently took the first steps toward repurposing the site for an apartment complex. The motel has been called an eyesore and last year logged calls for police and fire service.
Daniel Larsen puts his shoes on in his Buena Park motel room before being given a ride to a doctor's visit in Costa Mesa. Through the Illumination Foundation's Chronic Care Plus program, the formerly homeless man has received shelter, food and medical care.
Operation Boo teammates Yvette Llerena left and L. Wolf check in on one of two sex offenders who were staying at a Costa Mesa motel in A resident of the Costa Mesa Motor Inn returns from shopping before leaving the shopping cart outside the motel and going in. Costa Mesa city leaders recently took the first steps toward repurposing the site for a apartment complex.
Almost no one β from the city leaders, to police, to the motel owners themselves β disputes that. But now, after two decades of a highly-publicized fight with those businesses and numerous attempts to shutter them, Costa Mesa officials think they finally have a plan to make some of those motels disappear. Less sexy than the headline-making police investigations and fine-issuing sweeps of past years, the new plan seeks to entice motel owners to close rather than penalize them into that decision.
