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Collection of Clippings on Development of Irvine, California and Orange County Local Agency Formation Commission
MS.R.163
MS.R.163
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Title: Collection of clippings on the development of Irvine, California and Orange County Local Agency Formation Commission
Identifier/Call Number: MS.R.163
Contributing Institution:
Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine Libraries
Language of Material:
English
Physical Description:
0.6 Linear feet
(2 boxes)
Date (inclusive): 1969-1972
Abstract: This collection consists of newspaper clippings regarding the development and incorporation of the city of Irvine, California
and actions of the Orange County Local Agency Formation Commission, from 1969 to 1972.
The collection is open for research.
Property rights reside with the University of California. For permissions to reproduce or to publish, please contact the Head
of Special Collections and Archives.
Clippings on Development of Irvine, California. Date accessed.and Orange County Local Agency Formation Commission. MS-R163.
Special Collections and Archives, The UC Irvine Libraries, Irvine, California. Date accessed.
For the benefit of current and future researchers, please cite any additional information about sources consulted in this
collection, including permanent URLs, item or folder descriptions, and box/folder locations.
Transferred by UCI Reference Librarian Yvonne Wilson, May 2012.
The collection of clippings was curated by UCI Libraries staff, Orange County Collection, Governmental, dated 1975 February
6.
Processed by Chris S. Ervin, 2012.
The Orange County Local Agency Formation Commission, or OC LAFCO, is a government agency that makes decisions regarding boundaries
for cities, unincorporated territory and special districts within Orange County, California. During the 1950s and early 1960s,
some Orange County cities began to annex territory to their boundaries to serve newly developing areas. To address these issues
not only in Orange County, but throughout California, Local Agency Formation Commissions were established by the State Legislature
in 1963 in each California county. Meanwhile, in 1959, the Irvine Company sold 1,000 acres to the University of California
for a new campus in south Orange County. Irvine's growth as a residential and employment area was spurred by the decision
to build this local university. Construction of UC Irvine began in 1965. In 1970, the Irvine Company announced an ambitious
plan to turn 43 square miles of surrounding undeveloped land into a master-planned community. Threatened with possible annexations
by other cities, the residents of the first developments, or villages, voted to incorporate as the city of Irvine on December
28, 1971.
Collection Scope and Content Summary
This collection consists of newspaper clippings regarding the development and incorporation of the city of Irvine, California
and actions of the Orange County Local Agency Formation Commission, from 1969 to 1972.
The collection is not arranged.
Related material can be found in the following collections:
George Leidal Collection on the City of Irvine (Collection MS-R030). Department of Special Collections and Archives, University
of California, Irvine. http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt3z09q4nv
Raymond L. Watson Papers (Collection MS-R120). Department of Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine.
http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt867nf5qj
Leonard C. Moffitt Files on the Planning of Orange County and University of California, Irvine (Collection MS-R116). Department
of Special Collections and Archives, University of California, Irvine. http://www.oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/kt4x0nf20k
Subjects and Indexing Terms
City planning -- California -- Irvine -- History -- Sources.
Clippings -- California -- Irvine -- 20th century.
Clippings -- California -- Orange County -- 20th century.
Los Angeles County (Calif.) -- Newspapers.
Orange County (Calif.) -- Newspapers