The Orange County Grand Jury has launched an inquiry into the $649.5-million acquisition of the closed El Toro Marine base by one of the nation’s largest home builders and the role of Irvine officials in planning for a huge public park there.
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The city of Irvine is preparing to retreat from a pledge to transfer control of the Orange County Great Park to an independent countywide panel that has been overseeing its development for three years.
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Four of the five Irvine City Council members leave today for an all-expense-paid, nine-day trip to Barcelona, Paris and New York City as part of their role in planning a 1,000-acre park at the former El Toro Marine base.
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The ideas came from as far as Spain and as close as Disneyland: seven ambitious proposals to transform a deserted patchwork of runways and hangars into something like New York’s Central Park, smack in the middle of Orange County.
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In an effort to dampen mounting criticism from the Taiwanese
community, the Irvine City Council rescinded a sister city agreement
with mainland China that required the Orange County city to renounce
its ties with a Taiwan partner.
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About 200 people waved
U.S. flags outside Irvine City Hall on
Tuesday, demanding that the City Council unwind its sister city
agreements with China, which the protesters said snubbed their
homeland, Taiwan.
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Two Orange County cities are balking at the prospect of paying for
sheriff’s patrols of their harbors, a service the county has provided
for decades.
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It hardly registered as an international incident, but it certainly
ranked as a first-rate global gaffe.
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In a biting report aimed at efforts to build one of America’s largest
urban parks, the Orange County Grand Jury suggests the ambitious plan
could founder if left in the hands of Irvine city leaders.
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