TRAIL TO BE BUILT TO WARNACK PARK; PALMDALE'S NEW COUNTY-FUNDED PROJECT EXPECTED TO BE FINISHED BY LATE SUMMER.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Daily News Staff Writer Palmdale will use a $222,000 Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County parks grant to build a trail through juniper trees and sagebrush sagebrush, name for several species of Artemisia, deciduous shrubs of the family Asteraceae (aster family), particularly abundant in arid regions of W North America. The common sagebrush (A. on Ritter rit·ter n. pl. ritter A knight. [German, from Middle High German riter, from Middle Dutch ridder, from r Ridge to the new Warnack Park. With views north over the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley and south over Leona and Anaverde valleys, the trail would follow Jeep roads and paths already carved by off-road motorcyclists and hikers, city officials say. ``The people using the trail now are actually trespassing,'' said Laurie Lile, a principal planner for the city. ``We're trying to provide a legal way to use that property for recreation.'' Newport Beach-based National Investors Financial, which owns 800 acres on the ridge and wants to get approval for a 540-home subdivision to sell to a developer, has offered to donate 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. for a trail. The trail is to be called the Joshua Ranch Trail, after the subdivision. Derived from the 1996 county parks tax, the grant will pay for 3.2 miles of trail between the end of Avenue P-12 west of 25th Street West and Warnack Park, which is 140 acres of rugged land donated by developer A.C. Warnack in 1996 on the south side of the California Aqueduct The California Aqueduct is a 444 mile (715 km)-long[1] aqueduct in the United States that carries water from Northern California to Southern California. east of Godde Hill Road. The trail is expected to open to hikers, mountain bikers and equestrians in late summer. Motorcycles will be barred. City officials also are planning a drive leading from Godde Hill Road to a parking area within a quarter-mile or so of Warnack Park, which is planned as a nature area. ``We're ready to start doing improvements out there,'' said Mayor Jim Ledford. CAPTION(S): Map MAP: Palmdale |
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