Upon the announcement last year that the city of Irvine would break ground on an arts center called the Cultural Terrace at the Great Park, one news report noted that it is “among the largest metropolitan parks in the United States” and “is larger than San Diego’s Balboa Park and New York City’s Central Park.” Sure, the park encompasses a massive 1,300 acres, but comparing this underdeveloped pipedream to the nation’s pre-eminent public parks is delusional.
The Great Park idea was hatched two-plus decades ago amid grandiose promises. Amid concerns about the county’s plan to build an international airport at the shuttered El Toro Marine base, voters approved Measure W (rezoning the property for a park) in 2002. This Editorial Board dubbed it the Great Pork, given the amount of tax dollars that would be required to build it out.
Indeed, 23 years after the latest public vote and following Irvine’s annexation of the land, the most significant progress has been on the privately owned portions of the old base. The park process, by contrast, has been plagued with high costs, lawsuits and scandals including three critical grand jury reports. Now we have another mess to add to this list.
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