HIDDEN HILLS : Official Who Fought Housing Project Quits

One of three Hidden Hills City Council members who helped block a lower-cost housing project in the upscale community has resigned, due to her planned move to Florida later this summer. After three consecutive Hidden Hills elections were canceled due to a lack of candidates, Susan Norris Porcaro, 38, and two other residents were elected in 1990 during a furor over a proposed senior citizen housing and commercial project on annexed land--a controversy that rocked the usually tranquil town of about 2,000 residents.

Since then, the new council majority rejected county redevelopment funds that would have required the city to accept lower-cost housing, and the issue has faded. Porcaro, who also has worked on traffic problems near Round Meadow Elementary School and the community carnival Fiesta, resigned at the end of May, saying she wants to live closer to her parents.