PLACENTIA

The City Council on Tuesday voted 3 to 2 to allow a Tustin-based real estate company to build 16 single-family homes on the McFadden Brower property, site of the city’s last orange grove. But the council did give Preserve Our Past, a group founded two weeks ago to try to save the grove, five months to raise funds and remove the historical artifacts from the estate.

Developer HQT agreed not to remove any trees or buildings until January. The city will place a brass plaque on the property to commemorate its history. The Brower estate is one of the original ranches in Placentia, dating from the 1860s.