HUNTINGTON BEACH : First 5 Acres of Pact Will Go to City Soon

Pacific Coast Homes, a sister firm of the Huntington Beach Co., will present the City Council with 5 acres of parkland at the council meeting Tuesday night, company officials announced.

The land is the first of 41 acres that Pacific Coast Homes pledged to give the city as part of the Holly Seacliff development agreement last year. All 41 acres will be used in forming the long-proposed, 106-acre Bolsa Chica Linear Park. When fully formed, that park will be operated by the county as a regional open space and recreational area next to the Bolsa Chica Wetlands Reserve.

Pacific Coast Homes and the Huntington Beach Co. are subsidiaries of Chevron. Pacific Coast Homes last year secured a long-term contract, called a development agreement, with the City Council. That contract allows the company to build homes and commercial areas on 768 acres of former oil land in northwest Huntington Beach called Holly Seacliff.

The contract also calls upon Pacific Coast Homes periodically to dedicate parkland to the city from the Holly Seacliff area.

“All of the 41 acres will be dedicated to the city by 1995,” said Bill Holman, project manager for both Pacific Coast Homes and the Huntington Beach Co. He added that construction of new single-family homes in Holly Seacliff will start next year, initially in the area near Garfield and Edwards streets.

Holman noted that the development agreement also requires Pacific Coast Homes to build “public roads, water facilities, a fire station and other amenities totaling over $85 million” in the Holly Seacliff area.

Pacific Coast Homes will jointly present the park deeds with its partner company, Urban West Communities of Santa Monica. Holman said the two firms are working together in developing the Holly Seacliff land.