Many Irvine residents may not realize that the Oak Creek Golf Course land is not simply ordinary private property. While the land is privately owned, it is subject to long-standing legal protections created through Initiative Resolution 88-1, which Irvine voters approved in 1988 to protect open space throughout the city. Those protections were implemented through […]
Over the past week, many Irvine residents have received glossy mailers promoting a future new “Nature Park” in the center of the city. But a closer look at the proposal — along with a recent letter from two former Irvine mayors — suggests the conversation about Irvine’s open space may be more complex than the […]