PALMDALE – The ink hasn’t dried yet on an agreement between environmental groups and the Tejon Ranch Co. to preserve 240,000 acres in the Tehachapi Mountains near Highway 138 and Interstate 5 – but it should soon. After intense review by attorneys from each side, a final version of those documents is expected to be signed off on Friday, said Sierra Club member Jim Dodson, who has been involved in the negotiations. Speaking Monday night to roughly 20 members of the Antelope Valley Group of the Sierra Club, Dodson described terms of the agreement, which was prompted by Tejon Ranch’s proposed 23,000-home Centennial master-plan community in the far western Antelope Valley and the smaller Tejon Mountain Ranch development in the Tehachapi Mountains. For the full story visit http://www.avpress.com/n/11/0611_s3.hts
