COUNTY ACQUIRES PARKLAND ACREAGE PARCEL PURCHASED NEAR CHATSWORTH.Byline: Troy Anderson Staff Writer Adding to what eventually will be a 316-acre swath of open space near Chatsworth, Los Angeles County supervisors on Tuesday approved the sale of 47 acres to the Mountains Recreation and Conservation Authority for $100,000. The property, which the county acquired in 1952 as a result of tax default, is in the Deer Lakes Highland and Devils Canyon area north of the Ronald Reagan Freeway. The $100,000 sale price covers the county's costs to acquire and manage the property since 1952. ``This cleans out all of the county's ownership of land north of the Deerlake Ranch development,'' said Paul Edelman, chief of natural resources and planning for the conservation authority. ``Slowly, we are building what is the core of the Michael D. Antonovich Michael Dennis Antonovich (born 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors representing the Fifth District, which covers northern Los Angeles County, the Antelope, Santa Clarita, Pasadena, and parts of the San Fernando and San Open Space Park.'' The authority's acquisition of the property is part of an ongoing effort by the agency to acquire land in the Santa Monica Mountains The Santa Monica Mountains are a low transverse range in southern California in the United States. Geography They run for approximately 40 mi (64 km) east-west from the Hollywood Hills in Los Angeles to Point Mugu in Ventura County. , Simi Hills, Verdugo Hills, Angeles National Forest The Angeles National Forest (ANF) was established by executive order on December 20, 1892 as the San Gabriel Timberland Reserve. It covers over 2,600 km² (650,000 acres) and is located in the San Gabriel Mountains of Los Angeles County, just north of the metropolitan area of Los and the Los Angeles River The Los Angeles River is an intermittent river flowing through Los Angeles County, California, from Canoga Park in the west end of the San Fernando Valley, 51 miles (82 km) southeast to its mouth in Long Beach. basin. Together with 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 , the agencies have acquired about 62,000 acres of open space in the hills surrounding the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. . In March 2004, the supervisors approved a hotly contested proposal to build hundreds of homes at Deerlake Ranch, which has been the subject of debate for years. Supervisor Antonovich, whose district includes the development, required the developer, San Francisco-based Presidio Chatsworth Partners LLC (Logical Link Control) See "LANs" under data link protocol. LLC - Logical Link Control , to lessen the impact of the project by dedicating 145 acres for open space outside the project, an additional 79 acres within the project and construction of more than 4.2 miles of equestrian and hiking trails. Since then, the authority has obtained a 32-acre parcel and a 145-acre parcel and will obtain a 15-acre piece once tax issues are resolved. In addition to the 47-acre parcel the supervisors sold Tuesday, the authority expects to obtain a 79-acre parcel soon. Troy Anderson, (213) 974-8985 troy.anderson(at)dailynews.com |
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