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The Ranch, which will take up 58 acres of Golden Oak Ranch

an 890-acre piece of land owned by Disney that already hosts about 300 days of production each year.

six soundstage buildings

2,854 people and contribute $533 million in annual economic activity throughout Los Angeles County.

Full build-out, though, could take years, even after the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors approved the project during a vote Tuesday. Still ahead are meetings with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and the Los Angeles Regional Water Quality Control Board

SCOPE and other environmental groups have been addressed

plant 1,600 new oak trees in the area, and argues that 637 acres of Golden Oak Ranch will remain a natural backdrop area. Disney also touted several “green design features” for reducing energy consumption, traffic and storm-water runoff.

Plambeck, though, isn't satisfied,

"to a voluntary project condition that places a conservation easement over the remaining undeveloped portions of the Golden Oak Ranch as a condition precedent to any permit issuance."

not develop 637 acres,

but if that's the case, why won't they put it into a conservation easement to assure everybody of their intentions?"

The Sierra Club, for example, has taken a neutral position on the

SCOPE

Santa Clarita Organization