Local News in Brief : Parkland Measure Gains
The Assembly Natural Resources Committee voted Monday to set aside $9.5 million to buy landfill sites in Mission, Rustic and Sullivan canyons in the Santa Monica Mountains and preserve them as open space.
The measure, by Assemblyman Terry B. Friedman (D-Los Angeles), was approved, 7 to 4, and now goes to the Ways and Means Committee, which last year shelved a more far-reaching Friedman proposal to prohibit development of any new landfills in the Santa Monica Mountains.
At stake is whether the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy should be allowed to acquire for open space some 2,300 acres owned by Los Angeles County, or whether the county should be allowed to continue to hold the land for future landfills.
The canyons are south of Mulholland Drive and east of Topanga State Park.
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