100.6 square miles or 64,414 acres
1. CHANGE CITY AND COUNTY LAND USE POLICY: Propose initiatives for the countywide preservation of agriculture, rural settings, open space, and natural areas (native habitat). Provide incentives for urban renewal and development of sustainable communities, including certified green building practices, and native plant landscaping. Prevent changes in specified land use categories of the General Plan unless the land use change is approved by a (simple) majority of voters. In other words, lock in certain landuse categories and put the keys in the hands of the voters. Establish a City Urban Restriction Boundary (CURB). The CURB is an urban boundary line that is drawn around a city and a vote of the people is required before a city can urbanize land outside the CURB line. Prevent sprawling cities from expanding outward by annexing more land into their boundaries for urbanization.
2. Create ecological/geographical integrity preservation ordinances as watchdog mechanisms to prevent city planners from approving potentially degrading development propositions. Include stipulations requiring that vacant land/open space within urban boundaries can only be developed if parcel of equal size, ecology, geographic distribution, and accessibility can be acquired as public park space. Historic floodplains of any watercourse, public footpaths, school play areas, and lands supporting native habitat and wildlife would be off-limits to developers.
3. Remove concrete from Santiago Creek channel between Chapman and Collins and restore native habitat. Establish multi-use trail on both sides of creek with native plant landscaping.
4. Remove concrete from Handy Creek channel
between Jamestown and Bond Pits (Water District Reservoirs) and restore
native habitat.
5. Systematically acquire neighborhood properties (provide fair market value) within historic floodplain of Handy Creek between Jamestown and Bond Pits, remove structures, and restore native habitat. Establish multi-use trail on both sides of creek with native plant landscaping.
6. Restore Yorba Park to native habitat.
7. Acquire Chapman Medical Center property for
habitat restoration and trail establishment.
8. Preserve land proposed for Fieldstone development (Sully-Miller Property) as wilderness park with trail establishment.
9. Preserve land proposed for The Irvine Company's Orange Hills and Santiago Hills Phase II development as wilderness park with trail establishment.
10. Establish multi-use trail along Santiago Creek from the 5 Freeway to Riverview Golf Course at the Santa Ana River.
11. Make sure the Tustin Branch Rail Trail connects with the Santiago Creek Trail.
12. Narrow Hewes, Bond, and Santiago Canyon Road and establish multi-use trails in both directions. Create vegetation buffer zones between traffic and trails utilizing native plants.
13. Acquire property at intersection of Hewes and Santiago Canyon road and reproduce the Grijalva Adobe to be used as a historic museum and gathering place for the community.
14. Restore land proposed for Grijalva Sports
Gymnasium development back to native habitat.
15. Remove "soilcrete" from Santiago
Creek channel between Cambridge & Tustin and restore native habitat.
16. Systematically acquire neighborhood properties (provide fair market value) within historic floodplain between Cambridge and Tustin, remove structures, and restore native habitat. Establish multi-use trail on both sides of creek with native plant landscaping.
17. Acquire private inholdings in the Cleveland National Forest for conservation. Get proposed wilderness areas officially designated, including Ladd Canyon and additions to San Mateo Wilderness.
18. Remove fencing, walls, and barriers surrounding
Orange County Water District reservoirs (Bond Pits). Remove oleander and
other non-native plant species. Restore native habitat. Create extensive
linear park with perimeter trail. Schedule guided birding tours along peninsula,
from Collins Water District access.
19. Retrofit public infrastructure (roads, sidewalks, street medians, parking lots, public parks) to include permeable surfaces, native landscaping, trail connections, pedestrian bridges and underpasses, wildlife corridors, stormwater catch mechanisms (berms, cisterns, wetlands), and interpretive elements.
20. Restore landfill at the corner of Cannon
and Santiago Canyon Road back to native habitat.
21. Remove creek parking lots from Hart Park and Santiago Park and restore native habitat.
22. Close the Foothill Transportation Corridor (241, 261, 133 tollroads) and restore to native habitat.
23. Designate entire Santa Ana Mountain Range, including foothills, as protected wilderness area.
24. Create wildife/pedestrian overpasses (wide, vegetated land bridges) across Santiago Canyon Road to connect El Modena Open Space (El Modena Peak Volcanics) to Santiago Creek as a unified wildife and recreation corridor from Tustin to Anaheim Hills.
25. Close off Cannon to eliminate over-the-hill access to Imperial Highway and Chapman Avenue.
26. Create and initiate Oak Woodland Management Plan for Irvine Regional Park. Identify heritage oaks, restore understory habitat, design trail system to guide visitors away from sensitive or dangerous areas.
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