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The
New San Diego Land Rush: Or, "There's Gold in 'Them
Tha'r' Bushes"
By Nancy Fey,
October 10, 2003
Days
after the State of California paid $275 million for the largest open space
purchase in the history of this state, some environmentalists and fiscal
conservatives found themselves surprisingly united with a common complaint: The
land was too expensive...
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Eco-Terrorists:
Keep Your Hands Off Our Habitat.
It's Worth Something
By Jerome Stocks, September
2003
Memo
to the FBI agents investigating the recent eco-terrorism
in University City: These arsonists either live here, or
drove here, but they could not have flown into San Diego...
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The
New San Diego Land Rush
By Jane Rampling, September
16, 2003
A new
land rush is sweeping San Diego, and it has gone largely
unnoticed in the local business press. The
eco-terrorists who recently burned down a University
City apartment complex probably didn’t know about it
either...
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What's
Open Space Worth? A Lot.
By Lori Saldana, Los
Angeles Daily Journal, May 2003
Ask any real estate appraiser outside California how
much urban wildlife habitat is worth. The answer: Zero -
or less than zero, when you figure in taxes, insurance,
and upkeep...
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A
Plan for All Species
J. Stryker Meyer, North County Times, May 12, 2003
Ten years ago the
Multi-Species Conservation Program surfaced in North
County. At first I thought it was a joke, a
fancy-sounding ruse played on the public by political
agencies, developers and wildlife protection advocates...
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Habitat
and Open Space: Quiet Revolution In San Diego - from the
Californian
from
the Californian -
Reprinted from the Inman Real Estate News Report
Ask
any real estate appraiser outside California how much
urban wildlife habitat is worth. The answer: Zero - or
less than zero, when you figure in taxes, insurance, and
upkeep...
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The
Economic Value of Open Space: A Review and Synthesis
Charles
J. Fausold and Robert J. Lilieholm ©1996, Lincoln Institute of Land Policy Research Paper,
Lincoln Institute Product Code: WP96CF1
This
paper reviews several approaches for measuring and expressing the economic value
of open space, and summarizes examples of each from published reports and
research findings...
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Economic
Incentives for Open Space and Habitat
Ed
Balsdon, asst. professor of economics, San Diego State
University Jan. 2003
The public
regulation of private land use decisions has moved into
the first tier of environmental issues in recent decades,
particularly if political contentiousness forms the basis
for this ranking...
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San
Diego's land use coordination by setting aside separate,
massive plots for wildlife preserves for commercial
development may become a model for the rest of the U.S.
PBS Online
News Hour, July 1997
San Diego is
trying to coordinate its land use by setting aside
separate, massive plots for wildlife preserves and for
commercial development. It may become a model for the
rest of the U.S. Jeffrey Kaye reports...
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