Posted on 05/09/2008 10:49:26 AM PDT by libsmacker75
A vast mountainous region glimpsed by generations of Californians mainly through bug-pocked windshields on Interstate 5 was preserved Thursday in what conservationists say is the largest, most ecologically crucial acquisition of public land in state history. The deal saves from development more than 240,000 acres of the Tejon Ranch - a ruggedly diverse stretch of grassland, forest and oak woodland just north of Los Angeles that is known to motorists simply as the Grapevine.
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But thank God the badgers are safe!
Send a large percent of Southern California's residents back across the border and there wouldn't be the need for more housing and commercial developments.
I’m ready and willing to perform that duty!
But then we won’t have growth and housing starts and all that.
Now, let's not jump to conclusions. He may have held to the highest Republican standards and taken a bribe from the real estate industry to keep the price of existing housing high.
They have just saved 0.0000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000
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I’m all for conservation like this! Just because the government is incompetant in other manners, doesn’t mean this isn’t good for the country.
On the other hand it is private property. Too bad its being stolen with the strong arm of government as a backdrop.
The more extreme the California politicians are, the better. We ought to build a wall around the state to prevent the refugees from trying to escape. Allowing them to cross over the border to the east just permits and escape valve and lets the political pressure off the pols.
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In the end, 90 percent of the Tejon Ranch property will be preserved for public recreation and, in the future, the creation of a state park, Reynolds said. In return, the owner will be allowed to develop 10 percent of the land, including high end ridge-side homes, a 23,000-unit development in Los Angeles County and expansion of a commercial-industrial center where an IKEA distribution center is at the base of the mountains.
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger told the celebratory crowd at Tejon Ranch that the landmark deal is an example of how the sometimes conflicting goals of protecting the environment and boosting the economy can be bridged.
"When forward-thinking people are willing to sit down and make something positive happen, those old battle lines can be terminated," Schwarzenegger said. "The Tejon Ranch is a vast California treasure."
Yeah but that's a smidgen compared to how large the ranch is. I'm not suggesting that the whole thing should be developed, but the fact is that 26,000 is really nothing compared to how big this place is.
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That’s a nice sized “liberal” city.
Gonna need more water from up North.
You can bet that the working stiffs won't be able to afford those homes.
It reminds me of a great Bill Mauldin WWII cartoon. Two officers in Italy are watching a gorgeous sunset. The green Lieutenant says, "What a beautiful view! Is there one for the enlisted men?"
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