Council agrees to slash fees for development at Irvine Business
Complex by 75 percent, but cool to proposal to cancel another fee
increase.
In a joint news conference scheduled for Monday, FivePoint
Communities and Irvine officials will announce plans to build
nearly 5,000 homes around the Great Park.
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Original plans for Irvine’s Great Park called for the demolition
of old hangars and runways. Now, in a cost-cutting effort, planners
are considering hangars as museum buildings and runways as parking
lots.
New council same as old with Democratic and Republican council
members voting along party lines for the largely ceremonial
post.
Jeff Lalloway says he will forgo medical and retirement benefits
as well as the city’s $715 monthly car allowance.
A vocal Irvine Republican group says the party had a chance to
secure a Republican majority on the City Council, but blinked.
Irvine will keep its 3-2 Democratic majority on the City
Council.
Republican Lalloway holds slim lead with Agran a close second.
Republican Lynn Schott is third.
Ouster of Jeff Lalloway may have been the last straw for Irvine
City Councilwoman Christina Shea and the Republican Party. Shea
doesn’t seem to mind.
Mayoral candidate Sukhee Kang and council candidate Jeff
Lalloway each have more than $40,000 to spend in the home stretch
to Election Day.
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