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
A local environmental group slams the plan for the just-approved 58-acre facility, which will eventually employ 2,800 people but faces months of hearings before breaking ground
Climate change and other hurdles mean it will take more water - and potentially more taxpayer money - to save the Everglades, according to new scientific findings released Thursday. The report to Congress warns that rising seas and warming temperatures are threatening to worsen damage already done by decades of drainage and pollution, caused by development and farming overtaking the Everglades.
A recent report showed that climate change, pollution and other factors could increase the cost to restore the Florida Everglades. So far, restoration costs are pegged at $16 billion, but additional efforts, such as proposed reservoirs, could add to that cost.