The Orange County Board of Supervisors voted unanimously today to accept a donation of 2,500 vacant acres by the Irvine Company, said the parks unit of the county’s Community Resources department.
The company previously planned to build 5,000 to 5,500 homes on the land, which is in the third district east of the city of Orange and represented by Supervisor Todd Spitzer.
He said the gift will “create an unbroken stretch of preserved land” when coupled with 20,000 acres the Irvine Co. donated to the county in 2010. The 20,000 acres largely surrounds the newly donated land.
OC Parks will oversee the new land; it manages nearly 60,000 acres of land for the county.
