Orange County will be removed from the official name of the Great Park in Irvine, a move that city leaders contend will better highlight Irvine’s operation and development of the 1,300-acre park. The Irvine City Council considered three names for the site at a meeting Tuesday: the Irvine Great Park, the Great Park of Irvine and the Great Park. Many homeowners in the Great Park neighborhoods have expressed anger over special-assessment taxes that have been levied on their properties to pay for development at the Great Park. “We had promised people this was going to be the Orange County Great Park,” Agran said. “Renaming the Orange County Great Park is an affront to all of us who lived through the historic fight to save our city from the threat posed by an international airport,” Shea said.

Source: Los Angeles Times July 28, 2021 18:33 UTC