Vice Mayor Agran Secures Unanimous Council Support for Exploring an Expanded Solar Rooftop Program
During the October 22nd City Council meeting, Vice Mayor Larry Agran — who will be sworn-in as...
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Author: Roger Bloom
Election Results in Irvine
On December 3rd, the Orange County Registrar of Voters certified the election results in the...
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Real Heroes at Irvine-Based Second Harvest Food Bank
One out of every 12 people in Orange County may not have the means to eat today. That’s a challenge that Irvine-based Second Harvest Food Bank has been helping people meet since 1983.
In that time, Second Harvest has grown into a large and sophisticated operation — coordinating hundreds of volunteers; setting up donation programs with supermarkets and food distributors; operating its own vehicle fleet with a distribution center in Irvine; and since 2021, running a 45-acre farm in the City.
“Levels of food insecurity in Orange County are now higher than before the pandemic,” said Second Harvest CEO Claudia Bonilla Keller. “Almost 400,000 people currently rely on Second Harvest and our network of partners for nutritional assistance each month. In 2019, we served closer to 250,000 local residents.”
Those are daunting numbers. But so are these: In 2022, Second Harvest truck drivers traveled 97,000 miles to distribute 32.4 million pounds of food, including 2.7 million pounds of broccoli, squash, melons, cabbage and green beans harvested at its own Harvest Solutions Farm.
Irvine is Creating a 30-Year “Urban Forest” Master Plan
Irvine is developing a 30-year master plan for its “urban forest.” The urban forest is made up...
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City Council Votes to Prohibit Unauthorized Camping in Irvine
The Irvine City Council has approved an ordinance to prohibit unauthorized camping on public and private land in the City, but delayed its enforcement for 120 days to allow the new Council that will take office in December to review it first.
The new ordinance strengthens a previous ordinance prohibiting sleeping in public and comes after a recent U.S. Supreme Court ruling that expanded the powers of local governments in dealing with homeless persons and encampments.
The ordinance includes a 24-hour notice to homeless encampments of pending removal and a provision for the city to hold any personal belongings swept up in a removal for 90 days to allow them to be reclaimed.
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