IRVINE

The Irvine Harvest Festival is looking for a new home.

Leaders of the nonprofit group that hosts the city’s annual fair are sending a delegation to City Hall on Tuesday to ask that a task force be charged with finding next year’s site.

“We have already put down a deposit for Hidden Valley, close to the Irvine Meadows Amphitheatre,” spokeswoman Jill Lloyd said. But she added that organizers still were considering other options, such as the Irvine Spectrum or the former El Toro Marine Air Corps Station, to host the festival’s 25th anniversary in October. The fair requires a 40-acre site for grounds and parking, Lloyd said.

This year, more than 28,000 people visited the festival, which includes a petting zoo, game and food booths and entertainment stages. The sponsoring Irvine Co. offered an attractive spot close to the Santa Ana Freeway on Culver Drive, but the festival cannot return next year because the company is developing the site.