Year: 2021

It’s been more than six weeks since the Irvine City Council heard from residents in north Irvine who believe that emissions from the asphalt plant located about a mile from their homes has led to a public health crisis.

Agran was the only Councilmember to vote against the Resolution. After the vote, Agran proposed his own Resolution to at least establish a beautiful Veterans Memorial Park on the ARDA site. The Mayor refused to even discuss the park.

If Mayor Khan had simply followed the law that she and two of her Council colleagues — Anthony Kuo and Mike Carroll — adopted in May 2020, designating the Great Park ARDA site as the legal location for the community-supported and voter-approved Veterans Memorial Park & Cemetery, construction would be underway right now.

The latest scheme is particularly cruel to the families of veterans; it pushes the Veterans Cemetery completely out of Irvine and shoves it alongside the busy, polluted 91 freeway (Gypsum Canyon), just a few miles from the Riverside County line, and more than 20 miles from Irvine.

The September 14th Irvine City Council meeting included nearly three hours of public comments from frustrated residents in north Irvine who believe that emissions from the asphalt plant located about a mile from their homes has led to a public health crisis.

The issue finally made it onto the Council agenda as a City staff “presentation.” However, residents took advantage of the Public Comments portion of the meeting to voice their concerns over the plant’s proximity to homes and schools.