BERNSON HOPES TO PRESERVE PRESERVE.Byline: Deborah Sullivan Daily News Staff Writer City Councilman Hal Bernson Hal Bernson served as Los Angeles City Councilman for the 12th district. He was chair of the Transportation Committee. Prior to being on the City Council, he served in the Navy. Preceded by Robert M. called Wednesday for a long-term lease and deed deed, in law, written document that is signed and delivered by which one person conveys land or other realty (see property) to another. A deed may assure the extent of the conveying party's ownership or, if the party is uncertain of the precise extent, he issues a restriction to ensure the long-term protection of Chatsworth Reservoir as a nature preserve and educational center. Stepping up his pressure on use of the 1,300-acre property, Bernson said be is pleased with the Department of Water and Power's plan to manage its site but remains concerned about the future. ``While I appreciate the short-term assurances of this plan to comply with the request of the council to protect the Chatsworth Nature Preserve/Reservoir, we need to know that we can also provide long-term protection for this very sensitive environment,'' he wrote in a letter to DWP DWP Department of Work and Pensions (UK) DWP Drinking Water Program DWP Dynamic Weapon Pricing (gamin, Counter-Strike: Source) DWP Department of Water & Power DWP Drinking Water Protection Commission President Rick Caruso. The long-unused and fenced reservoir is home to owls, bobcats, Canada geese geese domestic geese which were derived from the wild goose Anser anser. There are many other species in this genus and in the other genus of geese, the Branta spp. of which Branta canadensis is typical. , and endangered en·dan·ger tr.v. en·dan·gered, en·dan·ger·ing, en·dan·gers 1. To expose to harm or danger; imperil. 2. To threaten with extinction. bird and plant species. Debate over whether the sprawling acreage should be used exclusively as a nature preserve, or be developed for sports fields or other uses as well has raged for a year. In its action plan released this week, the DWP agreed to develop most of the site as a nature preserve, and to seek funds for an outreach Outreach is an effort by an organization or group to connect its ideas or practices to the efforts of other organizations, groups, specific audiences or the general public. program, tour guides, habitat enhancement and construction of a visitor nature center. However, Bernson wants to see the property's use as wildlife habitat cast in stone through a deed restriction and said that plan should be accompanied by a long-term lease with an agency that would manage the site, such as the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy The Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy is an agency of the state of California in the United States founded in 1979 and dedicated to the acquisition of land in the Santa Susana and Santa Monica Mountains and the Simi Hills, north and west of Los Angeles, for preservation as open or the Audubon Society. While the Department of Recreation and Parks also has been mentioned as a possible guardian of the site, Bernson said he has misgivings about that. ``It could be Recreation and Parks if there was a deed restriction on it,'' he said. ``But Recreation and Parks does some other things, such as managing golf courses and sports facilities See:
Caruso said the board would consider those issues in its upcoming discussions. The panel received the action plan at its meeting Tuesday and will vote on it in a future session. ``We certainly would look at doing a long-term lease,'' he said. ``We're currently looking at who the partner would be over the next few months.'' Commissioner Dominick Rubalcava said that while the board is committed to preserving the reservoir, it won't rush its decision on how to do so. ``I do not know whether we will have a lease, whether we will have joint management, whether we will have deed restrictions,'' he said. |
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