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The scene looking over the Great Park at 5:10 p.m. Sunday., shortly after sunset. Posted to Facebook by Shahina Khan and used with permission.
The photo above shows a few over the Great Park shortly before sunset today. We will be following this story as additional reports come through on Facebook.
More than a dozen fire trucks were reported congregating at the Park before 4:45 p.m.
One witness reported “a big column of black smoke coming out as if a tornado or twister hit the area.” The smoke was reportedly visible from the 73/405.
Informed speculation based on the placement of checkpoints is that it is one of the Five Point projects near Sand Canyon Blvd.
Five Point, associated with the developer Lennar, purchased most of the Great Park from the City of Irvine in 2013. It has been embroiled in controversy since then with advocates who have gotten legislation passed to build a Veterans’ Cemetery on one of the parcels it did not buy. That project has since been opposed by homeowners who say that they are concerned that the presence of a cemetery will lower their property values.
About Greg Diamond
Somewhat verbose attorney, semi-disabled and semi-retired, residing in northwest Brea. Occasionally ran for office against jerks who otherwise would have gonr unopposed. Got 45% of the vote against Bob Huff for State Senate in 2012; Josh Newman then won the seat in 2016. In 2014 became the first attorney to challenge OCDA Tony Rackauckas since 2002; Todd Spitzer then won that seat in 2018. Every time he's run against some rotten incumbent, the *next* person to challenge them wins! He's OK with that.
Corrupt party hacks hate him. He's OK with that too.
He does advise some local campaigns informally and (so far) without compensation. (If that last bit changes, he will declare the interest.)
His daughter is a professional campaign treasurer. He doesn't usually know whom she and her firm represent. Whether they do so never influences his endorsements or coverage. (He does have his own strong opinions.) But when he does check campaign finance forms, he is often happily surprised to learn that good candidates he respects often DO hire her firm. (Maybe bad ones are scared off by his relationship with her, but they needn't be.)
I think Larry Agran may be burning incriminating documents.
More like the new majority before the state comes down to audit their audit and all the campaign materials from the developers that they paid for on behalf of the new majority then were given the Great Park to develop more houses and thus no Park but High School built on Toxic Waste, thank you new majority for going against your constituents
The State audit? Oh right! That bogus interference cooked up by some politician in San Diego who is in Yahudi Gaffen’s pocket. And who is going to pay for that (if it ever happens)?
The Irvine cancer is spreading – thanks to Larry Agran, Beth Krom and Sukee Kang.
Among Orange County cities, Irvine has been an exception approving affordable housing for seniors and other groups in need, according to this article :
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/affordable-691252-housing-city.html