COUNTYWIDE : Forest Initiative Qualifies for Vote
Environmentalists seeking to protect San Diego County’s Cleveland National Forest have collected enough signatures to qualify a ballot measure that would curb development, the county registrar of voters has announced.
Petitioners for the Forest Conservation Initiative collected 89,000 valid signatures during the past six months, said a spokesman for the group Save Our Forest and Ranchlands.
If passed, the initiative would amend the county’s general plan and require that privately owned plots within the forest have a minimum size of 40 acres. Already-populated towns in the forest would be exempt.
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