Last May, Mayor Farrah Khan and Councilmembers Anthony Kuo and Mike Carroll voted to rezone the ARDA site in the Great Park exclusively for a Veterans Memorial Park & Cemetery.

A year later, Khan, Kuo, and Carroll say the project isn’t moving forward because they are waiting for a $700,000 CalVet study to be completed (comparing the ARDA site to another piece of property in Irvine) before they decide which site the City will transfer to the State — ignoring the fact that it was their vote last year that changed City law, making the ARDA site the only legally available location for a Veterans Memorial Park.

The Irvine City Council will soon be discussing how the City will spend the $53 million in federal funding that has been provided to Irvine as part of the Biden Administration’s American Rescue Plan. The discussion was originally scheduled to take place at the April 27th Council meeting but has been postponed.

According to a memo, City staff is recommending that the bulk of the funding be spent on improvements to Heritage Community Park ($42 million).

Since 2019, the South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD) has reported more than 800 complaints from Irvine residents. Beyond the noxious odors, there are growing concerns about the adverse health effects from the plant’s toxic emissions.

Unable to make tangible progress with the City of Irvine and AQMD, the homeowners have taken matters into their own hands by filing a class action lawsuit against the asphalt company.

Over the past year, grocery and pharmacy employees here in Irvine — and across the nation — have...

According to the City’s website, the Irvine City Council discussed an anticipated legal battle over district elections during their closed-door session on April 13th.

An at-large election system allows voters from across the City to elect all members of the City Council.  District elections would divide Irvine into geographic districts, with voters in each district electing their own City Councilmember, who must also live in that district.

Good news!  The City of Irvine opened a COVID-19 mass vaccination drive-thru site at the Great...

More than 2,500 Irvine residents have signed an online petition, demanding the City of Irvine address concerns raised by homeowners regarding the emissions from the All American Asphalt plant.  Beyond the noxious odors, there is growing evidence of adverse health effects from the plant’s toxic emissions.

During the 2020 City Council election campaign, now-Mayor Farrah Khan and now-Councilmember Tammy Kim promised Irvine voters that, if elected, they would use the power of the City to help the homeowners. However, since being sworn in to office, Khan and Kim have failed to deliver on that campaign promise.

After reviewing 150 nominations, Assemblywoman Cottie Petrie-Norris, whose district includes much of Irvine, has selected UCI Professor Barbara Finlayson-Pitts as Assembly District 74’s “Woman of the Year.”

Finlayson-Pitts is a Professor of Chemistry at UCI, who is also a researcher, mentor and community leader. She works on critical atmospheric research, and has authored/co-authored 180 scientific publications and two books on atmospheric chemistry.

Local author, Sally Bartlett, grew up in Irvine’s University Park area.  Sally lived in...

Just minutes before the Council was scheduled to hear a report regarding the status of the Veterans Memorial Park, Mayor Khan publicly announced that the Council had received a letter from an attorney suggesting that Councilman Larry Agran had a possible conflict of interest and, therefore, shouldn’t be allowed to comment on the Veterans Cemetery.

Irvine Community News & Views has learned that the letter Khan referenced was sent by a disgraced attorney who is currently barred from practicing law in the state of California.