President Bush authorized the National Parks Service to begin its study of a proposal to create a Rim of the Valley Corridor after signing the Consolidated Natural Resources Act of 2008. The proposed Rim of the Valley Corridor encompasses around 500,000 acres of land in the mountains encircling the San Fernando and Santa Clarita valleys, as well as areas within the Santa Susana Mountains, just north of Granada Hills. The NPS will consider whether to designate the land in the study area as protected parkland. One large real estate project that could be adversely affected by the plan is the controversial proposed Las Lomas mixed-use development that is located within the study area.
