Buena Park, Fullerton and Irvine became the latest Orange County cities to declare states of emergency Tuesday in order to unlock state and federal emergency funding amid the novel Coronavirus outbreak.
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.
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Irvine City Council Expands Bond Indebtedness For Great Park Neighborhoods
Irvine City Council members voted to establish a new tax district in the Orange County Great Park on Tuesday night, expanding the total potential bond amount in the park neighborhoods to just over $1.1 billion.
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Irvine’s Great Park Residents Often Times Don’t Know What Their Special Taxes Fund
While residents in the Great Park Neighborhoods are paying millions of dollars every year towards the development of infrastructure in the Park, many don’t know where their tax dollars are going.
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Irvine’s Great Park Fails Transparency Test
While city officials have touted the Park as the most transparent project of its type, questions still remain about how public money is being spent to develop Orange County’s largest public works project.
Posted inEconomy, Irvine, Top Stories
Irvine Council Prepares To Authorize More Debt For Future Great Park Homeowners
Irvine’s city council members tonight will vote to consider whether to establish a new tax district in the Orange County Great Park, pushing the total amount of potential bonds to over one billion dollars if approved by the council.
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The Great Park Tax: How Irvine Homeowners are Paying for the City’s Big Dreams
Homeowners in Irvine’s Great Park neighborhoods are currently on the hook for over half a billion dollars in debt to build Orange County’s most iconic public works project, and the total cost for the project could come out at as much as $2 billion according to projections.
Posted inAnaheim, Countywide, Government, Housing & Homelessness, Irvine, Orange, Politics & Elections, Top Stories, Tustin, Villa Park, Yorba Linda
Winner-Take-All Battle For Orange County’s 3rd District
OC Supervisor Don Wagner faces off against attorney and OC Fair Board member Ashleigh Aitken to represent canyon communities and cities like Irvine, Tustin, Orange and Yorba Linda on the Orange County Board of Supervisors.
Posted inARTS & CULTURE, Countywide, Garden Grove, Irvine, Theater, Top Stories
Shakespeare OC Announces Its Demise
BREAKING NEWS: After a few tumultuous years of trying to keep Shakespeare Orange County alive, the current leadership is shuttering this long-standing Orange County institution.
Posted inARTS & CULTURE, Irvine, Top Stories, Visual Arts
UCI’s Art Museum is a Dream Deferred, but Should Be Worth the Wait
Despite delays, the UCI Institute and Museum of California Art looks toward the future under the guidance of its new museum director, Kim Kanatani.
Posted inAnaheim, ARTS & CULTURE, Irvine, Santa Ana, Top Stories, Visual Arts
Rethinking ‘Rasquachismo’ in the O.C. Arts Community
As first-generation arts leaders in Orange County, curator Virginia Arce and local artist Albert López, Jr., collaborate to showcase “local and cultured” emerging artists at the Irvine Fine Arts Center.
