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Irvine loves its superlatives. Safest city in America (250K+ division). Most parks outside DC. Best schools in the county. Best city to live in. Top-ranked master-planned city. Most green parking stripes. Most white Teslas per capita. Probably.

What doesn’t make the scorecards is harder to count. What gets left off. Who ends up in the margins.

The best-laid plans have a reputation. They don’t always account for everything.

So it’s worth asking what the master plan misses, and whether it ever meant to account for everything in the first place.

Beige Republic is where those questions get asked.