1977 COUNTY ALLOCATES $2 MILLION FOR LINEAR PARK From a feasibility study by the County EMA for a regional park at Bolsa Chica, the County Supervisors approve $2 million for a 185 acre Linear Park bordering 3 sides of the wetlands and connecting Huntington Beach Central Park and Bolsa Chica State Beach.

1977-78 PHASE 1 OF DEPT. FISH AND GAME’S WETLAND RESTORATION Levees are built to enclose 150 acres of the 300 acre State parcel, and the dam which has been closed since the turn of the century is reopened to restore sea water tidal infl uence. Public service facilities (2 parking lots, walk bridge, restrooms and signs) are built. Two sand islands (1.8 and 1.6 acres) are created as nesting habitat for endangered California Least Tern.

City Council Nixes Proposed Annexation
(originally printed in The Tern Tide December 1977)
The Huntington Beach City Council decided at their December 12 meeting to discontinue annexation efforts. This means that the City Council does not plan to procede (sic) with either partial or complete annexation of the Bolsa Chica area to the City of Huntington Beach. The Coastal Commission has designated the County of Orange as the lead agency in developing a Local Coastal Plan (LCP) for the Bolsa Chica area, and the City of Huntington Beach has agreed to cooperate with the County in planning the LCP. Amigos will continue to communicate with the County Planning Staff, as well as the Board of Supervisors, in expressing high priority for the proposed County linear park around three sides of the Bolsa Chica.

Amigos Files Suit
(originally printed in The Tern Tide February 1979)
Amigos de Bolsa Chica fi led suit in the Superior Court of the State of California. The complaint is for:

Injunction and civil penalties for fi lling, diking, and degradation of wetlands;

A determination that the Bolsa Chica Land Trade violates the California Constitution;

A determination that California Public Resources Code 6307 is unconstitutional;

An injunction to restrain the construction of dwellings;

Civic penalties for violation of the California Coastal Act; and

An accounting of all oil revenues derived from public trust tidelands.

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