While reading the thread about the Bowerman Landfill in Irvine, I saw a post by EvaLSeraphim that mentioned a development called Stonegate to be built just north of Woodbury (across Irvine Blvd). I tried to find more information about this but so far I haven’t had much luck.
During my search, I came across the City of Irvine’s Zoning Map:
If you haven’t seen this yet, check it out! This map is dated 1/22/2007 so that’s pretty cool. From looking at this map, you can see that the Landfill is closest to Portola Springs (Planning Area 6).
Anyone have more details on Stonegate or Orchard Hills?
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Orchard Hills is apparently on track for opening the residential side in late 2007, per the Irvine Company website (look under villages and you will see Orchard Hills).
As for Stonegate, I don’t know much. We passed by it one day and I saw the name on an AQMD or water quality notice. When we got home, I started googling. It’s all rather under the radar, though. Perhaps some enterprising commenters will enlighten us.
Interesting map! The thread included one post talking about how modern landfills don’t have much odor. Based on driving near that area (near Woodbury, in particular, but sometimes even near Northwood), I have to disagree. Particularly on days when the wind blows, you can smell a foul odor in the air. And that Bee Canyon / Frank Bowerman Landfill is still relatively new, right? That doesn’t bode well for any of the communities near it.
I finally remembered the easy way to find the Stonegate info on the City’s website, although there were only two documents.
Here is one .pdf : http://www.ci.irvine.ca.us/civica/filebank/blobdload.asp?BlobID=5452
Within the documents, do a search for “Stonegate” and you will get some (but not much) info.
For Orchard Hills info, go to Yahoo and put this text in the search box:
“orchard hills” site:www.ci.irvine.ca.us/
I suppose one of us could actually call the City Planning and ask to look over the specific plan for this area and/or see if Planning will e-mail you the document (although they are usually huge).