Orange County to Get Fitness School
A planned $50-million national fitness academy in Orange County, where coaches and physical fitness teachers will be trained, has cleared its last major hurdle with a vote by the California Coastal Commission.
The nonprofit National Fitness Foundation announced in January, 1985 that it had chosen Aliso Viejo over sites in Malibu and Texas to house the complex of sports fields, swimming pool, tennis courts, 300-bed dormitory and classrooms.
The academy will occupy a 190-acre site 2 1/2 miles from the ocean. The Mission Viejo Co. donated the land to the county in 1979 in exchange for permission to build its Aliso Viejo housing development.
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