During a Friday press conference at the Great Park, Gov. Jerry Brown spoke to reporters after touring two competing sites for a veterans’ cemetery. While supportive of local decision making, Brown remarked about a site near the I-5 Freeway saying he liked the Strawberry fields. A final decision on the location could be reached by June.
Category: SOUTH COUNTY
South Orange County takes in Irvine, Mission Viejo, Lake Forest, Aliso Viejo, Rancho Santa Margarita and the master-planned cities around them, where growth and open space keep meeting at the council dais. Every story we have published about south county, newest first.
Posted inCommunity Opinion, Irvine
Mann: A Great Park without Great Gardens?
Citizens feel a sense of betrayal and a lost opportunity because botanical gardens seem to have disappeared from the Great Park. But the current city council has the chance to rectify that.
Posted inCommunity Opinion, Irvine
Martinez, Teeter and Jaffe: Concordia University Plans Expansion Without Consideration of Traffic or Neighborhood Residents
Home owners want safe neighborhoods and the ability to circulate without gridlock. Educational institutions, at times wish to expand. What happens when competing interests collide?
Posted inCountywide, Irvine, Top Stories
Developer Sends Veterans Cemetery Proposal to Irvine City Council
Developer FivePoint Communities has sent the Irvine City Council its general proposal for moving the proposed Orange County veterans cemetery from the city’s Great Park to a site near the interchange of the 5 and 405 freeways.
Posted inAnaheim, Countywide, Fullerton, Lake Forest, Top Stories
Growing Pains: Urbanization Fuels Orange County Parking Problems
In the county’s urban core where apartments are packed near single-family homes, curbs are often crowded bumper-to-bumper with cars.
Posted inCountywide, Irvine, Top Stories
Gov. Brown to Visit Proposed El Toro Marine Base Veterans Cemetery Site
Brown and two top Assembly Democratic leaders will visit the proposed veterans cemetery site at the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Base in Irvine within the next several weeks.
Posted inIrvine
OC to Get a Veterans Cemetery, But Where?
One side favors a 125-acre site on the former El Toro Marine Corps Air Station while the other wants to let a developer build it near the intersection of the 5 and 405 freeways.
Posted inGovernment, Investigative, Irvine, News Briefs, Top Stories, Transportation
Spitzer’s Proposal to Hire Lalloway Raises Conflict Questions
Supervisor Todd Spitzer is proposing the county pay Irvine Councilman Jeffrey Lalloway $190,000 to be his policy advisor, which is potentially controversial given that Irvine and the county often have opposing interests.
Posted inCountywide, Health & Wellness, Politics & Elections, San Juan Capistrano, Top Stories
The Accidental Advocate
In 2011, Kevin Shenkman was a patent attorney with no background in election law when a Democratic Party official asked him to take on a voting rights case in the Los Angeles County city of Palmdale. Now he is a statewide force for district-based elections.
Posted inIrvine
State Levels Heavy Criticism on Irvine’s Great Park Audit
The city’s high-profile and controversial forensic audit of the Great Park was plagued by poor governance, a lack of auditing standards, and a compromised bidding process, according to a scathing report released by the State Auditor’s office Tuesday.
