tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5741412946805763929.post2195503200700141625..comments2024-03-28T16:47:43.692-07:00Comments on Shoreline Area News: Conservation Cluster Housing in Lake Forest ParkCarl Dinsehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03741982015985286521noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5741412946805763929.post-9809240549163304162018-04-30T10:40:49.671-07:002018-04-30T10:40:49.671-07:00So it might be ok to establish housing with partic...So it might be ok to establish housing with particular covenants to protect particular things - access to beach, protection of native mammals, trees, whatever. What we do know is that oversight/enforcement are the first things to go by the wayside. California has laws that protect public access to the ocean - but private landowners put up fences and locked gates, and the state has not the will nor the $ to remove the barriers. A development in So Cal was allowed to go forward with the prohibition that residents could not own cats, in an effort to protect a local, almost-extinct mouse. Guess what? Several years later current residents are unaware of that prohibition. So go ahead with the "conservation easement" but be prepared when less than one generation from now the "messy" trees are removed and the soggy grass is paved for more play and parking space.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com