Local News in Brief : Grant to Lagoon Group
The California Coastal Conservancy has given $50,000 to a group opposed to a proposal for a 450-boat private marina in Ballona Lagoon so the group can design an alternative plan to preserve and restore the narrow body of water as a wildlife habitat.
The money went to Ballona Lagoon Marine Preserve Inc., a group of residents fighting plans to widen the lagoon and line its banks with concrete so it can be used by boaters. The lagoon runs for about a mile in Los Angeles, west of Marina del Rey.
The conservancy also decided to seek control of public access areas along the eastern bank of the lagoon so it can turn the land over to a nonprofit group or the City of Los Angeles.
Biologists have said that the lagoon is a feeding area for wildlife, including the least tern, a bird that is on the federal list of endangered species.
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