Property owners lobby to get off preservation list
03-20-07 - North America — , California
The owners of roughly a quarter of the properties on a recently created city preservation list don't want their land to be there, the City Council learned this week.
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In addition to receiving several letters from three property owners, the council also heard Tuesday night from speakers affiliated with several of the listed properties. Produced by a city-sponsored committee, the new list contains 13 sites ranked on the basis of habitat benefits and trail linkages, among other things. It doesn't address whether the properties are for sale or how much they might cost.
Brian Milich, a senior vice president with Corky McMillin Cos., said his company would love for the city to take over its "Village H" area -- a 66-acre, undeveloped lot with trails along Carlsbad Village Drive at Victoria Street. That area, which neighbors have long lobbied the city to preserve, ranks third on the city's new list.
"We are a willing seller on Village H," Milich said. "On the South Coast Quarry (site), however ... at this time, we are not a willing seller. Our recommendation tonight is that this site falls off or to the bottom of the list."
He said that about one-third of the site, which is immediately west of the College Boulevard Wal-Mart store, contains a rock quarry, and argued that "most of the site does not have significant quality habitat." Spots that do have significant habitat will be preserved under the development plans and the city won't have to spend a dime on that, he said.
But a series of speakers, ranging from local historians to environmentalists, told the council that it should try to save all of the area, commenting that it is home to a splendid waterfall, a creek and wildlife corridors.
"Certainly, it is not what it was when the neighbor kids and I would sneak up there in the 1960s, but we can restore it to what it was," said Wendy Hinman, a member of the Carlsbad Historic Preservation Commission.
Diane Nygaard of Preserve Calavera said the city is on the "low end" when it comes to city-owned open space habitat areas and ought to change that status. Carlsbad has 485 acres of city-owned open space, compared to Escondido's 5,000 acres, she said. "
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