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Or Supreme Scream, which goes up to feet in mid-air. The romantic event features fireworks, music, dancing, rare character events, cute photo opportunities, and much more! Who says the night has to end early? Champagne, chocolates, breakfast for two, and more — what could be better than that? The loss was blamed on derivatives by some media reports. In recent years, land use conflicts have arisen between established areas in the north and less developed areas in the south. These conflicts have regarded issues such as construction of new toll roads and the repurposing of a decommissioned air base.
El Toro Marine Corps Air Station was designated by a voter measure in to be developed into an international airport to complement the existing John Wayne Airport. But subsequent voter initiatives and court actions have caused the airport plan to be permanently shelved. Instead, it became the Orange County Great Park. According to the U.
The northwestern part of the county lies on the coastal plain of the Los Angeles Basin , while the southeastern end rises into the foothills of the Santa Ana Mountains. Most of Orange County's population reside in one of two shallow coastal valleys that lie in the basin, the Santa Ana Valley and the Saddleback Valley. The Loma Ridge is another prominent feature, running parallel to the Santa Ana Mountains through the central part of the county, separated from the taller mountains to the east by Santiago Canyon.
The Santa Ana River is the county's principal watercourse, flowing through the middle of the county from northeast to southwest. Its major tributary to the south and east is Santiago Creek. Laguna Beach is home to the county's only natural lakes, Laguna Lakes, which are formed by water rising up against an underground fault.
Orange County is sometimes divided into northern and southern regions. There are significant political, demographic, economic and cultural distinctions between North and South Orange County.
North Orange County, including Anaheim, Fullerton and Santa Ana , was the first part of the county to be developed and is culturally closer to neighboring Los Angeles County. This region is more Hispanic mostly Mexican and Asian predominantly Vietnamese and Korean , [22] more densely populated Santa Ana is the fifth most densely-populated city in the United States with a population of over , , younger, less wealthy and with higher unemployment.
It has more renters, fewer homeowners and more registered Democrats as opposed to Republicans. There are notable exceptions to these general trends, such as strongly Republican Yorba Linda and affluent Anaheim Hills and Villa Park. South Orange County is more residential, wealthier, more Republican, less racially diverse and more recently developed. Irvine, the largest city in the region, is an exception to some of these trends, being a major employment center and having an Asian plurality although Irvine's Asian population tends to be East Asian rather than Southeast Asian.
Costa Mesa is sometimes included in South County, [24] although it is located predominantly to the west of the Costa Mesa Freeway. Older cities like Santa Ana, Anaheim, and Fullerton have traditional downtowns dating back to the 19th century, with Downtown Santa Ana being the home of the county, state and federal institutions.
However, far more commercial activity is concentrated in clusters of newer commercial development are found in the county's edge cities , the three largest being. A contiguous strip of commercial development an edge city stretches from Disneyland through to MainPlace Mall along the I-5 Santa Ana Freeway, [26] [27] [28] [29] [30] straddling the city limits of Anaheim , Garden Grove , Orange , and Santa Ana , and in fact stretching between the original downtowns of those four cities. The Orange County Transit Authority studied the corridor as the possible route for a streetcar, a proposal that was dropped in due to opposition from Anaheim and other city governments.
In addition to suburban-style apartment complexes, Anaheim's Platinum Triangle is undergoing transformation from a low-density commercial and industrial zone into a more urban environment with high-density housing, commercial office towers, and retail space.
Anaheim envisions it as a "downtown for Orange County". The racial makeup of Orange County was 1,, Hispanic or Latino of any race were 1,, persons The Hispanic and Latino population is predominantly of Mexican origin; this group accounts for Among the Asian population, 6. As of the census [51] of , there were 2,, people, , households, and , families living in the county, making Orange County the second most populous county in California.
The racial makeup of the county was In , still according to the census [52] there were 2,, people living in the county. Out of , households, The average household size was 3. Ethnic change has been transforming the population. By , nearly 45 percent of the residents spoke a language other than English at home. Whites now comprise only 45 percent of the population, while the numbers of Hispanics grow steadily, along with Vietnamese, Korean and Chinese families.
The percentage of foreign-born residents jumped to 30 percent in from 6 percent in The median age is 33 years. For every females, there were For every females age 18 and over, there were About 7. Residents of Orange County are known as "Orange Countians". In , the county had 1, religious organizations, the sixth most out of all US counties. Orange County is a charter county of California; its seat is Santa Ana.
Except for the Board of Supervisors, each of these elected officers are elected by the voters of the entire county and oversee their own County departments. A seventh countywide elected officer, the County Superintendent of Schools jointly with an independently elected County Board of Education oversees the independent Orange County Department of Education. Each of the five members of the Board of Supervisors is elected from a regional district, and together, the board oversees the activities of the county's agencies and departments and sets policy on development, public improvements, and county services.
At the beginning of each calendar year, the Supervisors select a Chair and Vice Chair amongst themselves. The Chair presides over board meetings, and the Vice Chair presides when the Chair is not present. The Board also appoints the County Executive Officer to act as the chief administrative officer of the county and the manager of all agencies and departments not under the sole jurisdiction of an elected county official nor the sole jurisdiction of one of the four aforementioned officers appointed by the Board.
The County Department of Education is wholly separate from the County government and is jointly overseen by the elected County Superintendent of Schools and the five-member Orange County Board of Education, whose trustees are popularly elected from five separate trustee areas. Carona became eligible for his pension at age 50, and is also entitled, by law, to medical and dental benefits. Citron, a Democrat, funneled billions of public dollars into questionable investments, and at first the returns were high and cities, schools and special districts borrowed millions to join in the investments.
The California Foundation for Fiscal Responsibility filed a lawsuit against the pension system to get the list. The agency had claimed that pensioner privacy would be compromised by the release. A judge approved the release and the documents were released late June The release of the documents has reopened debate on the pension plan for retired public safety workers approved in when Carona was sheriff.
Called "3 percent at 50," it lets deputies retire at age 50 with 3 percent of their highest year's pay for every year of service. Before it was approved and applied retroactively, employees received 2 percent. The Board of Supervisors were tripping over themselves to make the motion.