-Irvine ranch began as a costal, farmland for Spanish sheep and goat farmers. The land was rocky, rough terrain with sandy soils, its main vegetation coastal sage scrub.
-1849 started the California gold rush in which a large population of people migrated west, in search of new land, opportunity and treasure.
-These people in search of there fortunes where call 49rs.
-James Irivne’s father, an Irish immigrant sailed across the Atlantic in 1846 to New York city, this quote describes the experience.
“I tell you a boy cast upon the world with not a dollar in his pocket….is in the position to appreciate the value of a helping hand.”
-He moved west, from New York and worked as a Merchant and a Minner making good money. In 1854 he bought shares in a grocery store in San Francisco, where he profited in the service of the flux of people coming to San Francisco for gold.
“the majority of money made in the California was made in service industry’s of the gold rush not in gold.” Bill Gates
-After making large profits in at his grocery business Irvine began Investing in land, his true inspiration and attraction of California. He purchased land in Northern California as well as, along with several partners, 3 Spainish land grants for 25 cents an acre, Rancho San Joaquin, from Mexican aristocrat Jose Antonio Sepulveda, Rancho Lomas de Santiago from agricultural entrepreneur William Wolfskill, and Rancho Santa Ana, they make up Irvine ranch, 100,000 acres in total, in southern California.
-the ranch was valued at $748,500 at the time of James Irvine in 1886, about the price of one of the Irvine ranches homes today.
-He died in 1886, leaving his son 110,000 acres of land.
- The ranch stretches inland from the oceans to the foot hills of the mountains
-James Irvine, took the land, covered in grass, cactus and scrub, mainly used for sheep grazing and began cultivating it into crop farms.
-He is one of the pioneers of large scale farm production.
-It was a farm integrating crops and livestock. Canals and wells were dug and drilled in order to irrigate the land. The crops were a wide variety: barely, beans, oranges, cauliflower, to grapes, and papayas
The ranch, changed hands, through selling, developing, donating and preserving different parcels to create more profit for the core company.
-1898 James Irvine incorporated the all of the ranch holdings under his own company name. The ranch kept growing in diversity from this time into the 1930s and it was considered “one of the most productive farmlands in the area.
-in 1937 James Irvine established his foundation, with the goal of “serving the general welfare of the people of California”, Making his son Myford the president.
The ranch, changed hands, through selling, developing, donating and preserving different parcels to create more profit for the core company. This company generated the capital to create the infrastructure, airports and University’s. The university of California was developed in conjunction with a new town plan as a centre piece for an overall regional master plan for Irvine. The Company sold the lands to the University 1000 arces for one dollar.
1965 the Master Plan for Irvine.
mountain sector
valley sector
coastal sector
current zoning in Irvine Today
-as the major city’s in the regions began to suburbanized, and parts of the land began to be
sold
sprawl adjacency to irvine
- The land was under going a major transition from agricultural to urban.
- This was the main reason for the master plan. To develop the land in such a way to preserve as much of it as possible, and save it from the sprawling cities and piecemeal development.
- The master plan was a very controlled and careful way for orderly development and preserving the land. Areas that more good for growing remains, areas that were not were allotted for building development.
- The Infrastructure that was used for farming was adapted for the new ubran uses
One of the keys is the respect for the land, the beauty is protected by the creation of land reserves. These reserves began, in the late 1800’s when James Irvine, began protecting parts of the land from the first stages of agricultural development.
density changes in population in orange county
The land reserves. time line.
- 1897- Irvine regional park
-1969 Mason Regional Park
-1973 First Irvine Ranch Master Plan, Identifies 10,400 acres of parks and open spaces.
-1979 Crystal Cove Park State park
-1982 Newport Coast Dedication Program
-1988 Irvine open Space agreement
-1989 West Bay and San Joaquin Wildlife Sanctuary
-1991 Laguna Laurel Acquisition Agreement, and Limestone and Wier Canyon Regional Parks
-1992 Peters Cayon Regional Park
-1996 Natural Communities Consevation Planning (NCCP) Reserve
-2001 Laguna Canyon Preservation Announcment.
-2001 North Ranch Land Gift.
-1992 orange county wilderness goes public.
Land reserve images
-This master plan had long term guiding principles that promoted, a community balance of working, living, learning and recreation.
The master Planning principles
More than four decades ago, The Irvine Company formulated key principles that continue to guide the planning and build-out of The Irvine Ranch®. They are:
-Maintain the land under a single owner.
-Establish a Master Plan for all 93,000 acres to guide land use and infrastructure decisions, ensuring that the whole would be greater than the sum of its parts.
-Create an internal planning group to guide the evolution and implementation of the Master Plan.
-Establish three major planning sectors on the Ranch to help break the master planning work into manageable areas-Coastal Sector, Valley Sector and Mountain Sector.
-Continually reinvest in the land.
-Ensure that the three planning sectors adhere to topography and jurisdiction constraints.
-Continue the tradition of land stewardship, with an eye on the long-term view.
-Contribute to the quality of the cities on The Irvine Ranch.
Make sound, realistic economic and political decisions.
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