Audubon Magazine, in its current issue, takes a look at the defeat of the proposed Orange County toll road extension. You may recall that Audubon California and several local chapters were part of the conservation coalition that ultimately killed the project. Among those featured in the piece are Dan Taylor, our director of public policy, and [...]

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Check out this brief video preview of the November-December issue of Audubon Magazine, which will feature a story on the successful effort to fight back the Orange County toll road extension, among other cool things. Audubon California was very much involved in that effort. Enjoy:

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The California Senate Natural Resources Committee has approved legislation to  protect the beauty and integrity of California´s state parks by preventing their conversion for private or corporate use. The bill is Senate Bill 679 from Senator Lois Wolk of Davis. Audubon California supports this legislation because, as we learned with the proposal to build a [...]

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Today’s Los Angeles Times has a nice opinion piece from Joel Reynolds and Bobby Shriver about the future of Southern California transportation now that the proposed extension to the Orange County Foothill South freeway has been thoroughly rejected.
There are real traffic problems in Orange County that the Foothill South toll road was meant to solve. [...]

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The Orange County Register gets into the story of the Commerce denial of the toll road appeal and declares the project dead.
The Los Angeles Times weighs in as well.
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The U.S. Department of Commerce today upheld the California Coastal Commission’s recent decision that the proposed Orange County tollroad extension was inconsistent with the state’s coastal zone management program. The Transportation Corridor Agencies, which had wanted to build the toll road through some of the last pristine habitat in Southern Orange County, had appealed the Coastal [...]

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Hearing rumors that a decision from the Secretary of Commerce could come today on the fate of the proposed Orange County toll road extension, and that it might be good news. More as we hear it.
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Now the Orange County Register jumps in with the prediction that the Department of Commerce’s decision on the Orange County toll road could come as early as next week. Again, Audubon California opposes the toll road extension.
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Of course we’ve heard this before, but the Times is now suggesting that a decision from the Commerce Department on the fate of the proposed extension of the Foothill South toll road in Orange County could come within days. This is an easy prediction to make, as this decision has to be made by Jan. [...]

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So whatever happened to that supposedly imminent decision on the Orange County toll road extension?
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We’ve been hearing chatter that a decision from the Department of Commerce on the Orange County Toll Road extension is imminent, and now there’s this in the L.A. Times. As you know, Audubon California strongly opposes this extension through important habitat.
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The L.A. Times is positively brutal about the proposed extension to the Orange County Foothill-South toll road. Here’s the key quote:
The proposed Foothill South toll road is a throwback to outdated models of growth that have locked this region into a pattern of killer commutes, reliance on foreign oil and the production of pollutants that [...]

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According to the L.A. Times, today’s public hearing before a Department of Commerce panel was something of a mess. Of course, if you read the flackage from the TCA PR firms, it was a tremendous victory for toll road supporters. Thankfully, just because your PR firm says it, doesn’t mean it’s true.
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With the Department of Commerce meeting coming up on Sept. 22 to take public testimony on the proposed Orange County toll road extension, this seemed like a good time to revisit this NRDC video of Clint Eastwood talking about the importance of preserving San Onofre State Beach. While Audubon California opposes the toll road extenstion [...]

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After cancelling its previously scheduled public hearing in July, a special U.S. Commerce Department panel deliberating on the future of the proposed Foothill-South toll road through southern Orange County has decided to hold a public hearing after all. If you want to attend this hearing and share your views with the panel, here is the [...]

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