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RCA staff details MSHCP implementation; property owners press board on notice, options and transparency
Summary
RCA Director Aaron Gabbie presented an MSHCP 101 overview of development review, JPR/HANS acquisition steps, and criteria refinements; public commenters and several directors pressed for better outreach, clarification of options for affected landowners and a public workshop on the Strategic Improvement Assessment and Action Plan.
Aaron Gabbie, Director of the Western Riverside County Regional Conservation Authority, gave the third installment of an MSHCP 101 series on Aug. 4, outlining how cities and the county process discretionary development under the Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan, the RCA’s role in review and acquisition, and the criteria-refinement pathway for property owners.
Gabbie told the board that the RCA reviews only projects in MSHCP criteria cells (the areas identified for reserve assembly) and that once an application is routed through a joint project review (JPR), the RCA has 14 calendar days to review it; wildlife agencies then have 10 working days to comment. If a project in a criteria cell is subject to acquisition, the RCA begins a 120-day negotiation period and may have up to four years from signing a purchase-and-sale agreement to close an acquisition. Gabbie emphasized the RCA does not use eminent domain to acquire properties.
The presentation described how reserve-assembly requirements…
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