On July 17, 2014, the Irvine Planning Commission considered: ORANGE COUNTY GREAT PARK MASTER PLAN MODIFICATION NO. 2; PLANNING AREA 51. See http://www.irvinequickrecords.com/sirepub/mtgviewer.aspx?meetid=4651&doctype=Agenda for the Staff Report.
We are pleased to report that this item passed, however, the vote was 3-2 with Commissioners Kuo, Smith, and Schott approving the Plan and Commissioners Gaido and Liss voting no. Build The Great Park Now provided a letter of support.
Laughably, Commissioner Gaido is still pushing for a canyon that recent documents from the Great Park audit have shown could never be built. Minutes are here: http://www.ci.irvine.ca.us/civica/filebank/blobdload.asp?BlobID=25635. Audit story is here: http://www.latimes.com/local/la-me-runaway-park-20140803-story.html
Quote from the story:
“Ideas that seemed to gain traction among board members would be dropped without explanation, while others — such as a canyon carved from the earth — were allowed to proceed without realistic assessments of their feasibility, he testified.
“The idea of being able to build a canyon and a lake and a cultural center and stay within what everybody was talking about at the time, a $1.3-billion budget, was lunacy,” Kogerman said.”
