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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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