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December 28, 1971
- On December 28, 1971, the residents of these communities voted to incorporate a substantially larger city than that envisioned by the original Pereira plan in order to control the future of the area and protect its tax base.
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Sep 26, 2018 · By Tom Berg. September 26, 2018. In 1960, Irvine Company planners and architects began creating a vision for the City of Irvine. “What we unfold here are plans, carefully and expensively wrought plans, for a totally new city,” they wrote. “We call it the City of Irvine.”.
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Archeological research establishes prehistoric man in the Irvine area at least 12,000 years ago, possibly even 18,000 years ago. Scattered evidence of early campsites and rock shelters can be seen in the undeveloped parts of the City. Gabrielino Indians moved into the Irvine area 2,000 years ago, establishing dozens of villages. One village was loc...
Gaspar de Portola, a Spanish explorer, entered the San Joaquin Valley in 1769, abruptly ending the tranquil life of the Gabrielinos. With the Spanish came forts, missions and herds of cattle. The King of Spain began to parcel out lands for missions and for a few large, private land grants. In 1831, after gaining independence from Spain, the Mexican...
In 1837, San Juan Capistrano mission lands were granted to Don Jose Sepulveda, later becoming Rancho San Joaquin. Rancho Lomas de Santiago was granted to Teodosio Yorba in 1846. In that year, the Mexican army was defeated in the final battle of the Mexican-American War. The Treaty of Guadalupe was signed and California was annexed to the United Sta...
During World War I, agriculture had intensified, and by 1918, some 60,000 acres of lima beans were grown on the Irvine Ranch. During World War II, two Marine Corps air facilities were built on land sold to the government by The Irvine Company. James Irvine, Jr. died in 1947 at the age of 80. Presidency of the company fell to his son Myford, who beg...
More than 40 years ago, the City of Irvine was still in its infancy. In 2015, Irvine has more than 200,000 jobs and more than 21,000 businesses have a license here. Today, the City Council supports its public schools with more than $9.1 million in direct and in-kind support each year; the City Council has approved a public-private partnership to bu...
Jan 13, 2018 · the late 1950s. No one had ever dared such an experiment, but they proposed an entire city of villages — each with parks, schools and shopping — connected with walking and bike paths and leading to natural wildlands. They wrote all of these ideas into a document they called the Master Plan.
Jan 3, 2014 · On Dec. 21, 1971, residents voted to make Irvine a city. By Orange County Register | Orange County Register. January 3, 2014 at 10:00 a.m. On March 19, 1970, The Irvine Company made...
May 21, 1989 · In the path of this migration was what became the city of Irvine. It grew from an unincorporated community of fewer than 100 residents (most of them ranch workers) in 1960 to a full-service city...
50 Years of the Fastest-Growing City In the U.S. Urbanization of a Masterly Planned City: Irvine, CA
Our City’s story began in the early 1960s when world-renowned architect William L. Pereira, who had designed San Francisco’s Transamerica Pyramid and Los Angeles International Airport, was brought in by the Irvine Company (which owned the land) to coordinate the design for the brand new UCI campus and our planned community, which would soon beco...
