Actions Speak Louder: Taking Issue with Councilwoman Fox’s Public Statement (Part 2)
This is part 2 of my response to councilwoman Fox’s recent statement to Irvine residents:
“As an Irvine City Councilmember, I have not voted for a single new entitlement or approved any new construction.”
Unfortunately, this statement is inaccurate. Consider the following minutes from a regular City Council meeting on April 25th of last year.
http://irvine.granicus.com/MetaViewer.php?view_id=68&clip_id=4093&meta_id=77639
On that date, the City Council approved the Concordia University Expansion Plan – a huge enlargement of the University. From the traffic analysis provided by Concordia University, the expansion would raise the average amount of traffic by about 60%. The Councilmembers voting for it included Melissa Fox – she was the deciding vote.
Councilwoman Fox also had an opportunity to ensure lower height building at 10 stories and so less traffic in terms of the Irvine Business Complex’s two buildings on MacArthur Boulevard. Instead on November 28th of last year, she voted for keeping the two MacArthur buildings at 15 stories.
This vote came despite the Airport Use Commission recommending against the 15-story construction. Please note that the developer was Five Point which would not have profited as much from the 10-story buildings as opposed to the 15-story buildings.
Part 3 will be released tomorrow.
1 Comments
judithG
June 17, 2018 at 8:44 amI attended all of the Concordia meetings, in fact the Concordia expansion project is what brought me into following City politics. The City Council did approve zone change for the school to increase trip counts (aka traffic) to the school. There were concessions the school has to make to the surrounding communities. That said, this was another vote to allow more traffic to an already failing intersection of Ridgeline and Concordia East.
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