Open space preserved on San Mateo County Coast
The Peninsula
Open Space Trust (POST) based in Menlo Park has purchased 183 acres
of land on the San Mateo Coast for $2.25 million as part of POST's
"Saving the Endangered Coast" campaign. The property will
be preserved as open space.
Rising between Lobitos
and Tunitas Creeks four miles southeast of Half Moon Bay, the property
climbs up wooded valleys and grassy slopes, culminating in a long,
narrow ridge with ocean views. The sloping land features scrub-covered
knolls, lush meadows, redwood groves, eucalyptus stands, and a winding,
willow-lined creek. The property is adjacent to two other open space
parcels.
"If POST had not
acquired it, two sprawling trophy homes could have been built on
the flat areas along the ridge top," POST President Audrey
Rust said. "Any development would have been highly visible
from neighboring ridgelines and would have impeded possible future
hiking connections between the Bay Area Ridge Trail and the California
Coastal Trail."
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