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Development from the outside in: Can Irvine become a central city?
Can Irvine become a central city?
Besides Irvine, four other spots in Orange County — Laguna Niguel, Tustin, Lake Forest and Mission Viejo — are in the top 12 of cities nationally with the highest percentage increases in home values over the last year, per Zillow. Irvine malls are newer, have more shade in the parking lots, and a mix of tasty Asian, Mexican and Mediterranean restaurants with sidewalk eating out in front on a wide plaza, under shady trellises that protect you from the sun. They say adding so many new housing units on top of that would ruin the character of the master-planned city and could paradoxically make emissions worse as increased traffic overloads existing roads and freeways.
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