Environmental Study on Golf Course OKd
Although opponents of the project had assailed the report, an environmental study for a 16,000-seat amphitheater and golf course planned at Camarillo Regional Park has been certified.
The Ventura County Environmental Review Committee this week approved the report for the revised recreation project, which is intended to raise revenues for the county’s parks department.
The environmental impact report must still be approved by the Army Corps of Engineers, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service and the National Park Service before any development can take place, officials said.
“We wanted to give some more time to the public agencies that had expressed concerns,” said Robert Amore, Ventura County’s lease development manager overseeing the project.
The next committee meeting is set for Wednesday at the site located at the 325-acre Camarillo Regional Park off Lewis Road.
Representatives from the California Coastal Conservancy, the Santa Monica Mountain National Recreation Area and other groups have voiced concern in the past that the amphitheater and 18-hole golf course would destroy wetlands and cause significant air and noise pollution.
The recreation project is scheduled to go before the Board of Supervisors on Sept. 9.
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