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Lake Elsinore resident urges different approach to brush abatement in floodplain near Skylark Airport

5545869 · August 5, 2025
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Summary

A longtime Lake Elsinore resident told the Planning Commission that recent plowing of a floodplain area near Skylark Airport has degraded habitat and encouraged invasive species; he urged the city to invest in restoration and steward the land as a wilderness park.

Christian Connolly, a Lake Elsinore resident who said he has lived in the city for 20 years, used the meeting’s public-comment period to criticize recent brush abatement work on a section of floodplain adjacent to Skylark Airport and to urge a different approach to vegetation management.

Connolly said he regularly walks the small stretch of land between the airport and the lake and…

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