Local News in Brief : College Land Preservation
The president of Pierce College has asked Los Angeles Community College District trustees to declare the school’s Woodland Hills campus a permanent agricultural preserve.
Such a designation would protect the school’s 200-acre farm from construction and could help revive Pierce’s struggling agricultural curriculum, college President David Wolf said.
Wolf said college officials have been flooded with development proposals for the farmland from outsiders. Construction ideas have ranged from retail stores to high-density housing and underground parking for adjacent Warner Center, he said.
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