After over two hours of public debate over whether or not to keep the existing golf course, city council members unanimously pushed forward with a 50,000 square foot surf park.
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Irvine Rejects Airport Commission, Wants New Housing Near John Wayne Airport
Irvine officials once again voted to overrule the Airport Land Use Commission’s noise and safety concerns about housing planned near John Wayne Airport.
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Have Orange County Supervisors Reignited the Debate Over Renaming John Wayne Airport?
Effort for a new logo for JWA prompts longstanding questions about whether Wayne’s name is still a good fit for OC’s only major airport.
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Renaming Historic Sites Continues to Ignite Debate in Orange County
Two institutions have already dropped or changed their names in the last few weeks, due to controversial namesakes. Who’s next?
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Smoller and Moodian: It’s Time to Rename John Wayne Airport
John Wayne’s white supremacist views came to light again when a 1971 interview he did with Playboy magazine went viral in early 2019. As symbols of racial intolerance are taken down across the country, the time has come to rename our airport and remove Wayne’s statue. The actor does not represent our diverse, cosmopolitan community.
