COLLEGE OF THE CANYONS SETTLES OAK TREE LAWSUIT.Byline: Daily News VALENCIA - College of the Canyons College of the Canyons is one of the fastest-growing community colleges in the state. According to the National Junior College Research Association, College of the Canyons consistently ranks in the top 50 community colleges in the nation. has reconfigured plans for a new parking lot, saving 16 native oak trees - and settling a lawsuit brought by two conservation groups. The settlement, announced Thursday, reduces the size of the college's planned south parking lot but saves the trees, including four that are at least 100 years old. Grading is due to begin in early spring, college spokeswoman Sue Bozman said. The Santa Clarita Oak Conservancy and the California Oak Foundation sued the Valencia college in July after COC See chip on chip. announced plans for a parking lot that would destroy 68 oaks. Most of the trees were in ravines that would have been filled with dirt excavated for the parking lot and dumped on site, rather than trucked away. Last spring, the plan was modified when a company agreed to take the dirt, saving half the trees. The new design will allow for 1,596 spaces, 274 fewer than originally planned. As part of the agreement, the college will create an easement easement, in law, the right to use the land of another for a specified purpose, as distinguished from the right to possess that land. If the easement benefits the holder personally and is not associated with any land he owns, it is an easement in gross (e.g. on the undeveloped west side of campus that will be deeded in perpetuity Of endless duration; not subject to termination. The phrase in perpetuity is often used in the grant of an Easement to a utility company. in perpetuity adj. forever, as in one's right to keep the profits from the land in perpetuity. as a protected oak savannah Savannah, city, United States Savannah, city (1990 pop. 137,560), seat of Chatham co., SE Ga., a port of entry on the Savannah River near its mouth; inc. 1789. . Also under the settlement, the college will monitor oaks over 10 years and replace any that don't survive. |
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