Capistrano Unified School District will be holding a public meeting on July 15 at Dana Hills High School/South Orange County School of the Arts (SOCSA) to discuss plans for the new Performing Arts Facility. The Notice of Public Meeting lists the purposes for the meeting to provide more information on the proposed theater and to gather additional comments/opinions from the local community. The meeting will run from 6 p.m. to 8 p.m. in the Porthole Theater inside the main building at Dana Hills High. The high school is located at 33333 Golden Lantern in Dana Point. Those who wish to express their views of the proposed facility may do so either verbally or on a written comment card at the meeting.

The proposed facility is expected to be built on the Dana Hills campus and will include a 470-person capacity performing arts building with spaces for a stage, seating area, lobby, storage, staff offices, classroom/practice rooms and other ancillary areas totaling 30,560 square feet. The project, as proposed, would necessitate the removal of some portable classrooms, a racquetball court and the relocation of existing tennis courts at Dana Hills.

Though the meeting is not a SOCSA event, more information about the project can be found on their website at www.SOCSArts.org/video-dana-hills-performing-arts-center.html