VENTURA : Group Urges City to Preserve Greenbelts
A citizens group has asked the Ventura City Council to protect the city’s open spaces and use funds from voter-approved taxes to buy the land.
The slow-growth Alliance for Ventura’s Future asked the council to appoint a committee and hire a consultant to study how to preserve the greenbelts.
“The longer you wait, the less land is available and the more expensive it becomes,” Alliance President Steve Bennett said.
Ventura Mayor Richard Francis said the city is already studying the possibility of creating an agricultural land trust to buy land from farmers so they don’t have to sell to developers.
Francis said he would like to see the agricultural greenbelt in east Ventura transformed into a large city park.
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