Save Irvine Open Space — 2025 Year-End Community Update

End-of-Year Message from Save Irvine Open Space

As we close out 2025, we want to take a moment to thank everyone in our community who has supported Save Irvine Open Space — whether through your time, your voice, or your donations. Your involvement truly matters.

This year brought an important community win. The Irvine Company appears to have stepped back from its most aggressive plan to redevelop the Oak Creek Central City open space and has expressed willingness to build a public park. That shift happened because residents paid attention, spoke up, and demanded transparency.

However, significant concerns remain. Despite these changes, they still seek to develop approximately 100-125 acres of open space.

The current proposal still seeks to redevelop areas covered by voter-approved open space preservation and would violate the spirit and intent of Resolution 88-1 — a voter-approved commitment that protected far more acres of open space than what is now proposed to be preserved. Save Irvine Open Space continues to believe this approach is unfair and inconsistent with what residents were promised and voted for.

Today’s residents have an important responsibility: to uphold what past generations preserved for the future. We must be better than simply developing land when it becomes convenient. Open space, once lost, is gone forever.

As we head into 2026, we have a critical and demanding year ahead. This conversation — and this fight — is far from over.

If you are able, please consider donating to support our work and subscribing for updates so you can stay informed and engaged.

Together we can ensure that all City open space approved by a vote of our citizens in 1988 remains protected, not just for today, but for generations to come.

Thank you for standing with us.

— Save Irvine Open Space