Transit Funds May Help Preserve Hearst Ranch
The California Department of Transportation plans to use $23 million to help keep portions of Hearst Ranch along California 1 undeveloped.
The plan also would allow Caltrans to move erosion-vulnerable portions of the highway inland up to 500 feet, and could ensure public access to the entire 18-mile coastline strip of the ranch west of the road.
It would free up $23 million in state bond money the American Land Conservancy has been hoping to acquire in its effort to conserve nearly all 82,000 acres of Hearst Ranch.
The state Transportation Commission still must approve the Caltrans funding plan.
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