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For more than 40 years, preserving open spaces and providing a rich menu of recreational
opportunities has been a core philosophy of The Irvine Ranch® Master Plan.
Because of the quality of the environment, diversity of the land and prevalence of the
recreational lifestyle, as planning evolved through the years a greater emphasis on
open space preservation emerged. Largely in part to careful consideration of local
influences, the plan also calls for many of these open spaces to be networked
through a series of trails, paseos, commons, courtyards, streets and parks, all of
which connect villages on the ranch to native open space.
The original Master Plan called for 10,400 acres, roughly 11 percent of the
93,000-acre ranch, to be set aside as parks and open space. On November 28, 2001,
Donald Bren, chairman of The Irvine Company, announced a major conservation milestone:
More than half of the Ranch -- over 50,000 acres -- would be permanently protected as
open space and for recreational uses.
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