Environment : Notes about your surroundings.

New Park--Plans for a county regional park bordering the Bolsa Chica wetlands are scheduled to come up for discussion at Monday’s 7 p.m. meeting of the Huntington Beach City Council.

As proposed, the Huntington Beach Linear Park, as it is being called, would be situated on 113 acres bounded by Pacific Coast Highway, Edwards Street, the Garfield Avenue extension and the wetlands.

A 450-acre park was once envisioned, but plans have been pared down over the years. Ralph Bauer, who heads a citizens committee on the park as part of the Bolsa Chica Coalition, has expressed concern that the current calls for too small a park, arguing that it should be increased to at least 154 acres, the size targeted in a 1986 City Council resolution.

The park would serve as a place for hikers, joggers, bicyclists and horses, and as a buffer between high-density housing and the wetlands, which would be restored under a compromise reached this year. The park would also include limited facilities such as picnic tables and a nature center for the adjacent wetlands.

Also on the agenda Monday are plans for the neighboring Holly-Seacliff development, which could bring as many as 5,000 homes into the area. According to the plans, land owners the Huntington Beach Co., would donate 36 acres for the park, a number Bauer would like to see increased.