Waterfowl Refuge Backed
After months of haggling with environmentalists over the amount of land to be set aside for wildlife, the city Recreation and Parks Commission Friday approved a land-use plan for the Sepulveda Basin providing for a 60-acre park and waterfowl refuge.
The five-member commission unanimously approved the plan hours after the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, which owns the property and leases it to the city, promised to seek an additional 60 acres in the basin for use as a foraging site for wintering Canadian geese.
The 60-acre land-use plan approved Friday is designed to make up for the loss of 160 acres of basin land in Bull Creek Park, future site of an “arts park” with a 2,500-seat theater and parking lots. The area borders the San Diego Freeway west of Van Nuys in the heart of the San Fernando Valley.
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