County supervisors will consider site in Anaheim

Orange County supervisors will consider several possible avenues to put a veterans cemetery on a piece of county-owned land near where the 91 and 241 freeways meet in east Anaheim. County Supervisor Todd Spitzer said last week that officials asked to get information at an August meeting about the process to turn 288 acres of open space into a resting place for those who have served in the military and their families. It could entail working with the federal Department of Veterans Affairs; the corresponding state agency, known as CalVet; and the Orange County Cemetery District. The move follows Irvine voters June 5 decision to reject a land swap that would have helped build a veterans cemetery in their city near the 405/5 freeway interchange. The election s outcome threw the cemetery plans into limbo, but Spitzer stressed the supervisors decision to explore the Anaheim site doesn t preclude Irvine from continuing to pursue a project locally. We didn t vote to said. We re just in the very earliest stages of trying to figure out what the assessment process would be. Irvine Councilman Jeff Lalloway has said he will ask his colleagues Wednesday to reconsider the first of two cemetery sites proposed in the city. The original site, on the northern edge of the Great Park, is owned by the city but was set to be swapped with developer Five Point for the 405/5 site, which some said was a better location and would have been cheaper to clean up Lalloway couldn t be reached for comment. Irvine Mayor Don Wagner said it s worth considering any alternative that gets the veterans the cemetery they deserve, and Anaheim Mayor Tom Tait said previously the city