HUNTINGTON BEACH : Developers to Give 7.7 Acres for Park

Pacific Coast Homes and Urban West Communities will give the city 7.7 acres for the Bolsa Chica Linear Regional Park, company officials announced Thursday.

Pacific Coast Homes, a subsidiary of the Huntington Beach Co., is the major developer of the Holly Seacliff area in the northwest part of the city. Urban West Communities, a separate company, is a partner with Pacific Coast in the Holly Seacliff housing development.

The park donation is part of the company’s contract with the city that calls for the developer to dedicate 41 acres during the next four years for the Bolsa Chica park, a narrow greenbelt that would link the city’s Central Park to the ocean.

The two development companies made their first Holly Seacliff parkland dedication in February, when they presented the city with 5.1 acres.

The 600-acre Holly Seacliff parcel formerly was dotted with oil pumps. The new development project will transform that land into a residential area of about 4,400 new homes housing 11,000 people.

Bill Holman, vice president of Pacific Coast Homes, said Thursday that the developers hope to begin construction on the first batch of homes in Holly Seacliff by late this year.

“We’ll probably have the first homes on the market by the summer of 1992,” he said.

Holman said the first phase of Holly Seacliff street improvements, near Edwards Street and Garfield Avenue, is now under construction and is scheduled to be completed by next March.