20 Donated Acres Won’t Be Zoned as Parkland
A piece of property that was donated as open space will not be formally designated as parkland, the City Council decided this week.
The council voted 3 to 2 Tuesday not to rezone 20 acres of the Chandler Preserve as open space recreation, or parkland. The current zoning of estate residential will remain.
The grandchildren of gravel magnate Linden H. Chandler have agreed to donate the land in increments over the next 20 years to the Palos Verdes Peninsula Land Conservancy. But the Chandler heirs argued that they can receive bigger tax write-offs--estimated at $3.6 million--if the land remains zoned as residential.
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