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Irvine Company May Finally Turn Land Preserve over to the Government
Irvine Company May Finally Turn Land Preserve over to the Government
9/16/2009
excerpted from:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-irvine16-2009sep16,0,5077469.story
...A single real estate transfer proposed by his company would expand the Orange County park system by more than half, potentially opening 20,000 rolling acres to public access.
The land includes uniquely scenic and historic sites, such as a spectacular sandstone ravine called the Sinks or "Little Grand Canyon," the red-rock cliffs of Black Star Canyon and Hangman’s Tree, a creek-side sycamore from which members of the infamous Juan Flores gang were lynched in 1857.
The Irvine Co. set aside about 9,000 acres of the land as mitigation for development; then, in 2001, Bren announced that an additional 11,000 acres would become permanent open space, overseen by a nonprofit conservancy and turned over within about 10 years to public agencies....
excerpted from:
http://www.latimes.com/news/opinion/editorials/la-ed-irvine16-2009sep16,0,5077469.story
...A single real estate transfer proposed by his company would expand the Orange County park system by more than half, potentially opening 20,000 rolling acres to public access.
The land includes uniquely scenic and historic sites, such as a spectacular sandstone ravine called the Sinks or "Little Grand Canyon," the red-rock cliffs of Black Star Canyon and Hangman’s Tree, a creek-side sycamore from which members of the infamous Juan Flores gang were lynched in 1857.
The Irvine Co. set aside about 9,000 acres of the land as mitigation for development; then, in 2001, Bren announced that an additional 11,000 acres would become permanent open space, overseen by a nonprofit conservancy and turned over within about 10 years to public agencies....
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More on the deal is here:
http://abhiking.blogspot.com/2009/09/acquisition-of-irvine-co-lands-by.html
AND OTHER INFO ABOUT THE IRVINE RANCH'S PARKS
Irvine Ranch Conservancy-new trail 7-2009
http://irconservancy.com/newsletter/2009/august/progspotlight.aspx
http://www.irvineranchwildlands.org/activities/index.asp
http://www.irvineranchwildlands.org/
http://www.irlandmarks.org/Explore/Mountains-to-Sea-Trail.aspx
mountains to the sea trail
http://www.irvineranchconservancy.org/
http://www.irvineranchconservancy.org/where/map.aspx#
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