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Tree-lined pathways
connect academic
buildings in the
center of the
U.C. Irvine campus.
provides access to parks and hiking trails
within a few blocks of almost every home.
And the large employment base shortens
commutes and serves one of the new town
movement's foremost objectives-to provide
" self-contained " communities where one can
live, work, and play without ever leaving the
new town.
Irvine
If any new town in the United States was
destined to be successful, it was Irvine Ranch,
with its location along the coast of Orange
County, one hour south of downtown Los
Angeles. H. Pike Oliver and C. Michael Stockstill's
2022 book, Transforming the Irvine
Ranch: Joan Irvine, William Pereira, Ray
Watson and the Big Plan, chronicles the history
of Irvine's development, including the fascinating
story of how Joan Irvine, the " golden
girl " and heir to the ranch, successfully fought
against the foundation that was established to
own the ranch by Joan's grandfather to gain
control of the Irvine Company.
The book includes the memoir of Ray
Watson, who started with the Irvine Company
in 1960 as a planner and served as president
from 1973 until 1977. He oversaw the master
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planning of Irvine, led the creation of the new
town, and is a beloved figure in the history of
Irvine's formation and success.
The Irvine Ranch was selected to be the
site for the new University of California Irvine
campus in 1959. It was also chosen over 21
other sites because it was the only one under
single ownership, and it offered the possibility
of creating a unique vision of " town and
gown. " Watson, quoted in Oliver and Stockstill's
book, underscores the enormity of the
decision: " In retrospect a huge step had been
taken by the Irvine Company; it was now
preparing to not only aggressively attempt to
attract the university, but to plan an orderly
transition from ranching to urban development. "
The
next battle was over cityhood. The
ranch had created plans for a business and
industrial park next to the Orange County
Airport (now John Wayne Airport). The city
of Santa Ana sought to annex a strip of land,
300 feet (90 m) wide and 8.5 miles (14 km)
long, along the future route of the 405 Freeway,
effectively dividing in half the ranch's
land for the new town.
The annexation ultimately failed because
the city overlooked a parcel of land on the
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