Trestles is Saved After State, Toll Roads and Enviro Groups Agree to End Fight

By MATT COKER / OC Weekly

My, how time flies, but after 15 years of being at each other’s throats, Orange County’s toll road agency, California’s Attorney General and a broad coalition of national and local environmental groups have essentially saved San Onofre State Beach, the Richard and Donna O’Neill Conservancy and San Mateo Creek watershed.

The pact, announced after the Foothill-Eastern Transportation Corridor Agency Board voted 10-2 behind closed doors Thursday, settles lawsuits that sprang from the board’s desire to carve a toll road into previously donated park land—and perilously close to the world famous Trestles surf break. Read more

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