Bolsa Chica Wetlands. Part 2

just a few hundred yards off a busy stretch of the pacific coast highway behind the shorebird scary over mud flats in search of food a blue heron is frozen in a steaming meditation colleges talent show winner and environmental activist along the edge of the weapons next to them is a fence that separates this public plan from the privately owned boats a chicken they sat gazing over the fence organ and shoulders but another hearing about to land in a eucalyptus tree this is so in congress to see is that create long awaited birds and the military that they're you know that really is that fair the answer's yes that's clearly were trying to point out here is that this is one system you're not pregnant with the boy here and they're perfect example of the type of bird that can pierce here in these trees organ directs the bills at the land trust a group that opposes the development of the whole city the mesa by its owner hard side homes for

years ago parts i proposed building twelve hundred homes throughout the twenty eight acre property coastal commission rejected the plan and recommended a scaled back the project so now the developer is seeking approval to build almost four hundred homes only on the upper portion of the mesa the area farkas from the wetlands shown are a professor at fullerton college says that will still mean less habitat for animals including coyotes so the patches a little small then the coyotes can't live there because they require a certain amount of food when they disappear then smaller predators move in and take over and become more common such as grief boxes and cans because he has cancer when cravaack his house pets and then they prey on the birds and the birds go away shall we are also says the homes will bring more fertilizer and other urban runoff flowing into the wetlands are outside holmes says the runoff from its product would be minimal lucy done as vice president on our property we've designed a unique

water recovery of time where we're actually creating even more women but on the mayflower to use it as a natural filtration system whereby it will capture one hundred percent of all dr heaton phones as well and it will capture approximately five percent of all storm water flows dunn says the development plan preserves the ecologically significant pieces of the property including the eucalyptus trees a pond and a small season a wetland she says even though the proposed homes will be expensive the increased supply will push prices down over all our teachers and our firefighters are commuting hours on the road in order to serve our families in orange county teachers and firefighters can no longer afford to live in the community dunn says hart side might consider selling its property to the state if the price is right that land along the orange county coast is so expensive the state might be better off

spending its dollars elsewhere voter approved proposition fifty provides money for the purchase of coastal land and singles out the bulls and chic a mesa the state is currently deciding how much it will offer for the site huntington beach assemblyman tom harmon says although the public won't get as much land for its money as it could get elsewhere and they say is well worth the roughly two hundred million dollars some think it might cost huge regional carrier that could be used by twelve million people live within two hours saving time of this location thousands and thousands of young school age children could be bused to go through the interpretive center that's proposed to be built arman and other orange county republicans have been lobbying governor schwarzenegger to make buying the land a priority meantime environmentalists worry the entire may say is still at risk of development that's because the county never certified the coastal plan that would have preserved the lower mesa

at least they want the coastal commission to make approval of any homes on the upper part of the mesa contingent upon the preservation of the rarest a bowl city care bills a city all at nine point three kpcc