Month: April 2025

The second annual CicloIrvine event is set to take place on Saturday (May 3rd) from 11am until 4pm.

The goal is to promote community engagement, sustainability, and environmentally conscious travel — allowing attendees to experience Irvine’s public spaces and local businesses in a new and re-imagined way. Participants will enjoy live music, informational booths, and a host of family-friendly activities.

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Irvine has been fortunate to have been led by a number of environmental champions. Mary Ann Gaido, who passed away in 2023, was among our early exceptional leaders. She was on the City’s first Transportation Commission and spent 20 years on the Planning Commission. Gaido also served on the City Council from 1976 until 1984 — helping to establish the City’s first General Plan. The Plan was a comprehensive, long-range vision of Irvine’s future development and preservation.

As Mayor of Irvine in 1989, Larry Agran partnered with scientists at UCI to draft and adopt a local ordinance — the first of its kind in the entire country — that banned chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) and other ozone-depleting chemicals. The New York Times called the City ordinance “the most far-reaching measure” to control ozone-depleting chemicals, and Bloomberg Magazine credited Irvine with “kick-starting the recovery” of the ozone layer. The UCI scientists won the Nobel Prize in Chemistry and the City of Irvine was honored by the United Nations.

On April 15th, voters in Council District 5  — which includes the communities of Woodbridge, Westpark, University Park and Rancho San Joaquin — elected Betty Martinez Franco to fill the Council seat vacated last November by Larry Agran, who was elected Mayor of Irvine.

According to her campaign website, Franco’s top priorities include: expanding affordable housing options; finding solutions to traffic congestion; advocating for small businesses; improving our City’s libraries and parks; investing in green projects; connecting the City’s most vulnerable families to essential resources; and building the long-promised Veterans Cemetery at the Great Park.