Concerned about the future of Ormond Beach? Do you want to have a voice in what happens to the wetlands?
Your opportunity is here. The city of Oxnard, in collaboration with the State Coastal Commission (SCC) and The Nature Conservancy (TNC) will hold its second public meeting about the Ormond Beach Restoration and Public Access Plan (OBRAP). You can access that plan online here: https://ormond.scc.ca.gov/ (heads up: it’s a long document).
The meeting is scheduled for Wednesday, July 31, 2019, from 6:00 to 8:00 p.m. at the South Oxnard Community Center (200 Bard Road, Oxnard, CA 93033).
If you’re interested in attending, please state your intent here… Also, if you’re interested in having a “pre-meeting” before the meeting (as the plan is long as we may need to review it together), please email me <[email protected]> with your email address, so I can contact you. If enough of you are interested in a pre-meeting, I’ll work on getting something organized. Thanks, neighbors!
Tom Dunn, Publisher Port Hueneme News
From ORMOND.SCC.CA.GOV:
Ormond Beach is a 1,500-acre area composed of agriculture, industry, and wetlands. A two-mile-long beach extends from Port Hueneme to the northwestern boundary of Pt. Mugu Naval Air Station, which encompasses Mugu Lagoon. Although the wetlands have been drained, filled and degraded over the past century, this is one of the few areas in southern California with an intact dune-transition zone–marsh system. Ormond Beach is considered by wetland experts to be one of the most important wetland restoration opportunities in southern California. It is also an important public access and beach recreation area for South Oxnard, Oxnard and the larger region.
The Coastal Conservancy, the City of Oxnard and The Nature Conservancy have been working to develop a restoration and access plan that balances habitat restoration and protection of sensitive plant and animal species with improved and increased public access.
To learn more about the history of this project, visit our Project Description Page
The preliminary draft of the plan was released in May, 2019, and can be found in two parts, as well as the appendices, below:
OBRAP_PrelimPlan_2019-05-13 PART 1
OBRAP_PrelimPlan_2019-05-13 PART 2
OBRAP_PrelimPlan_2019-05-13 APPENDICES
The project team will plan a public meeting to solicit input on the draft plan in the Summer of 2019.
Give Input on the Plan
For additional information and to give comments on the plan, please contact:
Christopher Kroll, Project Manager for the Ormond Beach Restoration and Public Access project, Coastal Conservancy at 510 286 4169; [email protected]
Isidro Figueroa, Principal Planner, City of Oxnard at 805 385 8207; [email protected]
Peter Dixon, Restoration Project Director, The Nature Conservancy at 805 290 4776; [email protected]
To learn more about the history of this project, visit our Project Description Page
To stay up to date on news, meeting and information about the Ormond Beach project, join the Ormond Beach Task Force email list by contacting [email protected].
Materials from June 21, 2017 Public Meeting
On June 21, 2017 the State Coastal Conservancy, The Nature Conservancy, and the City of Oxnard hosted the first public meeting about the Ormond Beach Restoration and Public Access Plan. The presentation materials from the meeting can be found here:
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