Irvine Councilman Larry Agran continues pushing for a veterans memorial park on land within its Great Park, though he said he is facing opposition from other councilmembers who are refusing to discuss the matter. Irvine voters approved in 2018 a state-owned and operated veterans memorial park and cemetery for a 125-acre site inside the Great Park. After the council failed to take action, petitioners successfully gathered nearly 20,000 signatures to designate the site as the only available site in the city for the park, which the council approved in May 2020. The council reversed course later on, when in Oct. they voted 4–1 to support building the cemetery component of the project at Anaheim’s Gypsum Canyon, which left the memorial park element of the project hanging. Though it can take years for the location of the cemetery to be decided between the two locations, Agran argued in a Dec. 8 …
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