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The City of Irvine requires all organizations operating within the City to have a business license (Code of Ordinances Section 4-6-201 and Section 4-6-207) prior to conducting business. Before starting a business contact the City of Irvine Development Assistance Center at 949-724-6308 to confirm your business activity meets the land use requirements of the City's Zoning Code.  

Please join us and mingle with other shelter alumni at the Center's annual event, featuring giveaways, complimentary refreshments, two off-leash play yards and photographs of you and your pet.

This event is free to everyone that has adopted from the shelter.
 

Welcome to Irvine!
Monday, May 18, 2015
Watch our welcome video from Irvine police officers in English, Korean, Mandarin, Farsi, Vietnamese or Spanish. Click here .

UUT is a tax imposed at the rate of 1.50 percent on businesses for the use of telephone, electrical and gas services in the City of Irvine. This tax is paid by service users to the service suppliers who collect and remit the tax to the City. Exemptions to this tax include residential service users, not-for-profit and nonprofit businesses and insurance companies. 

For additional information, please click here for the City of Irvine UUT Manual.
 

Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) and Irvine Hotel Improvement District Assessment (IHID)

Requirements

Hotel and motel operators are required to collect a Transient Occupancy Tax (TOT) and Irvine Hotel Improvement District Assessment (IHID) on a monthly basis. Each hotel guest (transient) shall pay a tax in the amount of eight percent (8%) Transient Occupancy Tax and two percent (2%) Irvine Hotel Improvement District Assessment Tax of the rent charged by the operator for occupancy during any 30 consecutive calendar days or less.

Solar Decathlon 2015
Visit the U.S. Department of Energy Solar Decathlon 2015 from 11 a.m.-7 p.m. October 8-11 and October 15-18 at the Orange County Great Park. Free public event; $10 parking. No RSVP/ticketing. Join
Sunday, August 31, 2014
With the start of a new school year just around the corner, we want to take the opportunity to remind motorists and parents of the increased pedestrian and bicycle activity this time of the season

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