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NEWSFLASH
 
A Ventura County Superior Court Trial Hearing was held on August 16th 2007 by Judge Reiser, Case # CIV 245658, regarding the Mount Clef Ridge parcel's HPD ordinance violations and EIR inadequacies.  This hearing will determine whether the City will be ordered to set aside its approval decision and/or decertify the EIR.

Judge Reiser is expected to make a ruling on this case in October 2007.

In September 2007 the developer started grading in the wildlife corridor.  SOROG receive a Temporary Restraining Order to stop the grading on Sept 10th 2007.  See the press release


Download a description of the Mountclef Ridge Wildlife Corridor with maps

Our Mission

 SAVE OUR RING OF GREEN is a large, growing group of citizens concerned for our native wildlife. Our aim is to protect the Ring of Open Space around the City of Thousand Oaks in order to stop URBAN SPRAWL and the destruction of wildlife corridors.

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Why our grass roots organization was formed

The inspiration came from witnessing the negative adverse impact on the Mountclef Ridge and its wildlife corridor as two homes were built (LD689) between 2002 and 2004.  This wildlife corridor is named the Mountclef Ridge Freeway Habitat Linkage in a 1990 Santa Monica Mountains Conservacy study

 

In 2000, the Thousand Oaks Planning Commission approved the development of two houses on the Mount Clef ridgeline above Briar Bluff Circle, north of California Lutheran University.  These houses are now complete as of January  2004 and the same developer applied to build four more houses on the north side of the ridge overlooking Santa Rosa Valley.  This proposed development would have completed urban sprawl by connecting the development in the City of Thousand Oaks to development in the Santa Rosa Valley FOR THE FIRST TIME EVER

 

It would obliterate the Ring of Open Space and cut off the Mountclef Ridge wildlife corridor. It reduces this critical wildlife corridor, which is part of a large habitat linkage between three major mountain ranges, from 2000 feet wide to a minimum of 100 feet wide. This minimum area is right where the Conejo Park and Recreation Trail continues across Mount Clef and over to the eastern border of Wildwood Park. 

If any of these homes get approved, they would choke off the wildlife corridor and greatly affect the habitat of Wildwood Park, the Western Plateau, the newly developed Hill Canyon wetlands habitat and the west end of the Santa Monica Mountains due to the inability of animals and plants to migrate through our area to the National Forests and back again.  Animals and the associated plants they help migrate are negatively impacted by any human activity.  The mere construction impact will chase the animals away and destroy the plant life for several years.  The human habitation, in an already restricted pathway, will cause the animals to avoid the area and behave adversely.


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Save Our Ring of Green is  a project of Social and Environmental Entrepreneurs (SEE) a registered public charity, which provides non-profit status.  Your donation is fully tax deductible.