Accordingly, ICNV endorses Vice Mayor Larry Agran for Mayor of Irvine. Over the years, Agran has led the way or had a hand in just about every good thing in Irvine — open space preservation, an amazing community park system, and our award-winning senior and childcare centers. With Agran’s leadership, Irvine became one of our nation’s safest, smartest, greenest cities — and America’s most culturally diverse and thoroughly integrated city.

Since returning to the Council four years ago, Agran has continued to get good things done. Working alongside hundreds of North Irvine residents, he was able to successfully shut down the City’s largest industrial polluter. In its place, we’re now establishing a beautiful 700-acre nature preserve, all at no cost to Irvine taxpayers. Agran authored the ballot initiative (Measure D) passed by Irvine voters earlier this year to ensure every part of town is represented on the Council. He’s responsible for the City’s new urban forestation plan that will add 200,000 trees throughout Irvine to clean our air and cool our City. Agran is also working alongside residents to stop Councilmember Tammy Kim’s wild scheme to build massive warehouses near residential neighborhoods and cram 57,000 additional housing units into Irvine. (Agran’s campaign website: LarryAgran.com)