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Joshua Moore14 Posts
Joshua Moore is an Orange County native and grew up in Irvine. He is an affordable housing and transportation advocate, and his chief passions for reform in local government are expanding the size of the Irvine City Council; switching to district-based seats and implementing ranked choice voting; and, ultimately, converting Orange County into a consolidated city-county.
[Opinion] What Becomes of Irvine When the Surplus Sons Have No More West to Go?
As much as any other place, Irvine is a project. Conceived by the Irvine Company, planned by an architect, and charted according to its much-vaunted master plan, this city has always been the product of deliberate, top-down intention rather than organic, bottom-up coincidence. But intention is always a complicated beast. It carries with it assumptions, […]
Opinion: “The City of Innovation” Needs to Take a Moonshot in Oak Park
Like many young people, I was captivated by human space flight growing up. To a small extent, it was part of my heritage. I’m a second-generation McDonnell-Douglas brat. My grandma worked as a secretary to engineers and would proudly recount how she once sewed something that was part of a mockup of Spacelab. My dad […]
Opinion: District Maps May Suffer Due to the Political Self-Interest of City Councilmembers
Many considerations are at play as Irvine nears the completion of its map selection process for our potential switch to district elections for the city council. Federal and state law outline a number of requirements, including equal population (more or less), preserving the electoral voice of marginalized groups, geographic contiguity, easily identifiable boundaries, and “compactness” […]
Opinion: The Mystery of the Missing Transit
On either side of Irvine Blvd, east of the 133, is a transit-oriented development. Or that’s what the zoning map says, anyway: Figure 1: From the Irvine Zoning Map, a “Transit Oriented Development” It is part of a larger area composed of parts of the Great Park neighborhoods and Portola Springs. At the time of […]
Great Park Board and City Council Agenda Highlights for June 27, 2023
The wheels of government will start to turn early this week with a meeting of the Great Park Board at 2:00 pm, and a Special Meeting of the Irvine City Council starting at 3:00 pm. The only items on the agenda for the Great Park Board are a presentation reviewing the details of the Great […]
Opinion: Irvine’s Master Planning Has a Long Way to Go: The Walkability Problem
Correcting an Outright Failure in Irvine’s Master Planning: Introducing Human-Scale Design into Communities Designed for the Scale of Automotive Travel There is much to love about Irvine. It’s safe, clean, and has great schools, and I’m especially proud of the vast open spaces it has protected from development and the urban forest that permeates the […]
