The Great Park of Orange County, California -- Sustainable Community



The Great Park Plan calls for the largest Master Planned Community with the Sustainability at its core. This community is located on a 4,639-acre former Air Base in the city Irvine, California.


At the center, it is a 1,347 acres metropolitan park. The park will contain 2.5 miles canyon, more than 20 acres of lake, 974 acres of nature preserve, and a wildlife corridor linking the Cleveland National Forest to the Laguna Coast Wilderness Park.


The surrounding community within this plan will also include Residential and Commercial District, Learning District, Community Farm, and open spaces.


The principles of sustainability are applied at the entire Great Park Plan. This includes renewable energy generation, efficient transportation system, water treatment system, habitat restoration and etc. The water treatment system will use a three-stage natural treatment process. The habitat restoration and protection have a strong focus of native species.


The Great Park of Orange County will be serving as a living laboratory for our ultimate dream-- the Sustainability.


You may check http://ocgp.org for more info.

This sounds like a very nice park. I particularly like the waste water treatment urban agriculture and wildlife corridor concepts.

Hi Jim,

I wish they have an "One Hundred Acre Woods” just like yours.

By the way, you web site http://www.redbayfarm.com is interesting. The city people should be happy to spend a day inside of your real forest.

Thanks Sierra,
Glad you visited. I hope you were able to overlook my lack of web expertise. Hope you found some useful information.

Jim