The City Council voted 4-1 to adopt an amendment to the City’s General Plan that would allow up to 57,656 apartments and housing units to be built in Irvine. (Vice Mayor Larry Agran voted NO.)

Vice Mayor Agran disagreed, noting that the state deadline is still six months off. Agran urged the Council to spend that time hammering out a creative approach to meeting the state mandate by drastically lowering rents in existing apartment units in town rather than building tens of thousands of new housing units.
 

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On October 8th, the Irvine City Council voted 4-1 (with Vice Mayor Larry Agran voting NO) to move forward with a plan to add some 15,000 housing units in the Irvine Business Complex (IBC), next to John Wayne Airport.

An amendment to the City’s General Plan to implement the state mandate by building up to 57,656 units passed the City Council back in August on another 4-1 vote, with Larry Agran voting against it.

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A profoundly dishonest political stunt by Councilmember Tammy Kim means that the City’s part-time employees and contract workers will have to wait indefinitely for a restoration of the City’s “living wage” ordinance that ensures those employees earn $20 per hour.

But, when it came before the City Council for final approval, Councilmembers Kim and Treseder refused to support it.

As community members began circulating recall petitions in response to Councilmember Tammy Kim’s efforts to stifle public comments with which she disagrees, Kim set up an anti-recall fundraising committee. (The recall is a political impossibility since Kim ends her Council term in December, and there is no recall on the November ballot.)

Kim argued forcefully against any discussion regarding Irvine establishing its own Fire Department. Her strong opposition resulted in Irvine residents questioning Kim’s conflict of interest.
 

Irvine Councilmember Tammy Kim steered a lucrative deal for electric vehicle (EV) chargers in the Great Park to Casco Construction and its supplier, Noodoe.

It was later discovered that all of Noodoe’s manufacturing operations are based in Taiwan, and the $2 million in annual revenue promised to the City never materialized.
 

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