SunCal Companies has made protecting the environment – for both recreation and habitat protection – an essential component to the planning process. In each SunCal community, residents will find a wealth of natural features preserved within and around the community.
Here are just a few case studies on SunCal’s smart and environmentally sensitive planning efforts:
A progressive oak reforestation program will provide more than 23,000 new oaks to supplement the property’s approximately 80,000 historical oaks. In addition, over 700 acres of natural open space will be preserved under a permanent conservation easement.
Ritter Ranch Palmdale, CAApproximately 6,000 acres (60 percent) of the Ritter Ranch property has been donated to the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy to be protected in perpetuity. The open space will provide an important wildlife corridor between the High Desert and Angeles National Forest.
Oak Knoll Oakland, CAAs part of SunCal’s plans at Oak Knoll, a creek that has long been blighted and paved over with a concrete culvert will be fully restored to provide aesthetic and environmental benefits to the surrounding community. The creek will run along a wooded greenbelt trail system, offering a new tranquil recreation opportunity to local residents.
Harmony Grove Meadows Escondido, CASunCal will remove a concrete culvert crossing from Escondido Creek at Harmony Grove Meadows and build a new bridge across the stream. As a result, harmful pollution and litter from cars and passersby will no longer damage this beautiful habitat. In addition, 48 acres of open space for natural habitat will be preserved.
Marblehead Coastal San Clemente, CAAn innovative urban runoff control system at SunCal’s Marblehead Coastal master-planned community in San Clemente will capture potentially damaging runoff before it reaches the beaches below the bluff-top community.
Citrus Ranch Indio, CAAn environmentally sensitive golf course will serve as an important wildlife corridor at SunCal’s Citrus Ranch. The course will connect existing open spaces that were previously separated by agricultural operations.
Westport at Mandalay Bay Oxnard, CASunCal worked with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to construct an intertidal mud flat habitat and salt marsh habitat for shoreline birds. In addition to what was required, SunCal also constructed two acres of adjoining upland habitat. Advanced water-runoff filtration structures were installed to ensure that storm runoff is cleaned of contaminants and debris before it is discharged into the ocean.