Newman said the state Department of Parks was stretched thin since the Great Recession of 2008-09 and didn’t have the resources to manage additional park lands. “The Department of Finance put a boot to the throat of the state parks and wouldn’t let them acquire any land,” Schlotterbeck said. The Brea land, a 10-acre swath of rare walnut woodlands with a stream, completes the park’s western boundary in Orange County.Īnd the new legislation requires the state to incorporate adjacent, acquired lands into the park, completing a court settlement that required the state to obtain woodlands after it allowed the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California to build a secondary road through the park. The ridgeline properties complete the original design for the park’s eastern, San Bernardino County boundary, she said. Once you are inside the park you don’t know there are 18 million people on the outside.” “We’ve had our eyes on these parcels since the park was designed, since 1977,” Schlotterbeck said. Newman said he will invite state park officials this fall to view the already-acquired ridgelines in Chino Hills. The expansion of the park will wait until all the parcels in question are acquired, a process that could take at least a year or two, Schlotterbeck said.
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