The New village in Planning Area 40 will reflect the exceptional
planning and design innovation that make every community on The
Irvine Ranch® distinctive. Like all other residential villages on
the ranch, it also will be balanced and self-contained and offer
excellent schools; extensive parks, trails and open space, and
convenient retail centers.
The village will have just under 4,000 housing units. Key features include:
- A full range of housing types to provide much-needed homes near jobs as Irvine’s economic growth continues.
- A newly located middle school to serve students in North Irvine by 2009, as well as a neighborhood elementary school.
- New parks, trails and open space, including the completion of the southern segment of the Jeffrey Open space Trail system.
- A half-mile-long central recreation complex.
- A Trabuco Road landscape corridor that will serve as a major entry into the Orange County Great Park.
- Interchange improvements at Trabuco Road and SR 133.
- Landscape treatment along the Santa Ana Freeway (I-5) to serve as a buffer.
- Integration of existing eucalyptus windrows into the overall plan.
The overall character of the new village will be similar to neighboring
Woodbury®,
a traditional community with a small-town feeling that has
recently been named America's Best Master-Planned Community by the
National Association of Home Builders.
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