Deal Reached on Trust to Preserve Farmland
From Times Staff and Wire Reports
Thousands of acres of San Joaquin Valley farmland will be preserved after a deal between the Sierra Club and a developer resulted in the funding of an $8.2-million trust.
The Cambay Group, which is developing River Islands, has been involved in a courtroom dispute with the environmental group for seven years over the construction of an 11,000-home community on what is prime farmland in Lathrop.
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