Irvine Company officials Friday announced they have plans for a new nature park on the Oak Creek Golf Club property.
The proposed park would replace much of the golf club and is expected to link with the Jeffrey Open Space Trail. That would provide parks and trails across the city from Limestone Canyon Nature Preserve to Quail Hill Nature Preserve.
“Irvine has been master planned since its founding, with a focus on providing abundant open spaces, parks and trails for the community to enjoy,” said Jeff Davis, the Irvine Company’s senior vice president. “This planned nature park will significantly expand Irvine’s nationally ranked park system, with additional recreation opportunities in the center of Irvine.”
The company is continuing to solicit more feedback from the public on the nature park plans through an online survey at irvineconnection.com/nature-park-study.
Thank You so much for listening to me and so many other residence of the Irvine community. We are absolutely ecstatic to keep our green space preserve and develop improvements that will benefit the people who live here and throughout Orange County and beyond. Thank you Irvine City Council and The Irvine Company for your ability to save our green space preserve and create a park that will link up our surrounding parks and natural open spaces including The Great Park of Irvine.
I take back my previous comment full heartedly. After further exploration on this issue I discover that this is one big Marketing Ploy to make you think that we are going to have a world-class nature park to be incorporated into the golf course. The map that is included in the Irvine connection article shows that it only takes up a strip of land down Jeffrey road and then just the corner of Irvine center drive ( The location of a permanent IRWD pump station) and then down the middle underneath the power lines. The rest would be set aside for future village settlements. Which encompasses most of the property. This will not be a nature park it’s going to be an embellished sidewalk down Jeffrey to the corner of Irvine center drive. Do not believe this misleading story.
I support turning the golf course into a green park, but building houses in a major transportation hub of Irvine is absurd. If they plan to build some parks and then build houses, Irvine citizens should strongly oppose it.
Golfers unite….Save the golf course…If Oak Creek Golf Club closes it’s going to be impossible to get a tee time…