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1) Catamaran	2) Bridge	3) Bridge view	4) Hideho	5) Movie set
6) After the storm	7) Creek reflections	8) Creek view	9) Studio	10) Trolley house
11) The old boardwalk	12) North end	13) Typical day	14) Nelda's	15) Gray house
16) Gray house	17) Yellow house	18) White cottage	19) Winter sunset	20) Dog's life
21) David's	22) Lost youth

Historic District, Saturday March 24, 2001
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.....Composite picture spliced together from 73 photographs

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Moro Peak, Sunset, April 5 '99
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.....View of Signal Peak, Saddleback Mountain, Pacific Ocean

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May 2005
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.....From the southern edge of the park

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Rocks

Rocks 2

Reef Point

Debris and birds

Rocks 4

Rainbow at sunset

Current Plans--Official Documents

• California State Parks Dept. planning documents Charts, newsletters, public meetings

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News Archives

Campground project halted at El Moro

• February 12, '09 L.A. Times article Former trailer park site conversion stopped

Campground project to begin at El Morro

• July 4, '08 Coastline Pilot article Former trailer park site will be state park campground

Irvine Ranch Acreage Gets Landmark Status

• October 11, '06 L.A. Times article Gov. Schwartzenegger and Donald Bren at Crystal Cove (map included)

Chillin' at Crystal Cove

• July 23, '06 L.A. Times article Details about vacationing at Crystal Cove

O.C.'s Beach Shacks Are Open for Business

• June 27, '06 L.A. Times article The enclave of Depression-era cottages at Crystal Cove State Park has reopened after $14 million in renovations. But the waiting list for rentals is a long one.

The Line's Long for This Seaside Spot

• April 28, '06 L.A. Times article Reservations go fast for restored cottages at Crystal Cove State Park in Orange County.

Reservations for cottages coming soon

• April 7, '06 Daily Pilot article

State Workers' Low Rents Not So Cozy for Taxpayers

• April 1, '06 L.A. Times article

Vandalism Is Blamed on Evicted Tenants

• March 23, '06 L.A. Times article Some mobile homes left this month on state property near Laguna were trashed, and park officials want compensation.

Vandalism mars vacated El Morro

• March 16, '06 Daily Pilot article State parks department says former residents may be responsible; officials investigating, deciding whether to press charges.

El Morro's new tomorrow

• February 26, '06 Daily Pilot article Deadline nears for generations of residents to move out of 75-year-old beachfront community.

Seaside Trailer Park Residents End Long Dispute

• November 5, '05 L.A. Times article Residents agree to leave by March 1 and pay $650,000

Dan Walters: Soap opera finally nears an end

• August 29, '05 Sacramento Bee article

Help for Victims of Landslide May Further Delay Park Plan

• June 20, '05 New York Times article

El Morro Trailer Park--Home for Slide Victims?

• June 10, '05 L.A. Times article Laguna mayor wants to move slide victims into the state park

Campbell Scales Back his Crystal Cove Proposal

• May 10, '05 Coastline Pilot State senator wants private group to decide how El Morro is used

Campbell Has Plans for Cove Project

• May 7, '05 L.A. Times article State senator wants a private group to take over restoration of beachfront cottages

Trailer-Park Dwellers Fight Eviction From Paradise

• May 2, '05 New York Times article

DeVore's Bills to Prevent El Morro Evictions Are Dropped

• April 27, '05 L.A. Times article

DeVore Won't Fight Evictions

• April 26, '05 Sacramento Bee article No lease extensions for El Morro trailers

Preview Tour of Restored Cottages

• April 10, '05 L.A. Times article Public tour to show progress to date

DeVore's El Morro Bills Follow Gifts

• February 27, '05 L.A. Times article Assemblyman Chuck DeVore (R-Irvine) received $66,000 from residents and the leaseholder

DeVore's response to Pilot editorials

• February 24, '05 Coastline Pilot "My El Morro bills are entirely about money and nothing more."

Coastline Pilot/Daily Pilot Editorial: "DeVore took the wrong side"

• February 17, '05 Daily Pilot editorial "These bills would hijack our public lands and in effect lock out ... the public taxpayers"

Bills Would Keep Homes at El Morro

• February 11, '05 Daily Pilot article Assemblyman Chuck DeVore (R-Irvine) wants 30 year lease for residents in state park

Bills Would Keep Homes at El Morro

• February 12, '05 L.A. Times article

Senate Bill 328

• SB 328

Senate Bill 329

• SB 329

Related links

• What's Wrong With AB 328 & 329 Laguna Greenbelt responds to DeVore
• Free El Morro-Oppose AB 328 and 329 Surfrider Foundation's request for action
• California State Parks Foundation"...the tenants--the majority of whom do not live at the trailer park and sublet at considerable profit..."
  "AB328 and AB329 purport to save the state money, but the numbers just don't pencil out. AB328 would have the tenants paying $50 million dollars to continue to live on public parkland for another 30 years. With 300 trailers, that averages out to $463 monthly rent per trailer. ...In contrast, the State Parks plan is projected to bring in $1.3 million dollars a year through campsite and day use fees..."

Q & A with Assemblyman DeVore about El Morro

• February 12, '05 "OC Blog" item

Bills Would Keep Homes at El Morro

• January 26 Sierra Club note Assemblyman Chuck DeVore (R-Irvine) wants 30 year lease for residents in state park

State Steps Up Beachfront Battle

• January 24, '05 L.A. Times article Residents stay put

El Morro Residents Resist Move

• January 4, '05 L.A. Times article Residents file suit: birds endangered

Judge Affirms Park Eviction

• December 21, '04 L.A. Times article El Morro mobile home dwellers are up against a deadline

El Morro Trailers to be Removed

• August 1, '04 L.A. Times article Leases expire December 31

Renovation of the Historic District Cottages Has Begun

• April 25, '04 L.A. Times article First phase includes about half of the buildings

El Morro Trailer Residents Again Propose Plan to Stay Put

• January 25, '03 L.A. Times article Critics still not persuaded

State Plans to Renovate, Rent Crystal Cove Cottages

• October 16, '02 L.A. Times article $100 a night in 2004

Coastal Panel to Help Fund Crystal Cove Restoration

• January 30, '02 L.A. Times article $2.8 million

Future of El Morro MobileHomes

• January 20, '02 L.A. Times article Assemblyman Campbell's plan
• January 20, '02 L.A. Times letters Responses to Assemblyman Campbell

Extend the Leases at El Morro?

• January 6, '02 L.A. Times opinion Assemblyman Campbell's plan
• January 13, '02 L.A. Times letters Responses to Assemblyman Campbell

Cottage Restoration Delayed

• August 29, '01 L.A. Times article State lacks money

State to Drop Resort Project at Crystal Cove

• March 23, '01 L.A. Times article State Board OKs Crystal Cove Buyout
• March 22, '01 L.A. Times article Crystal Cove's Fate May Be Decided Today
• February 18, '01 L.A. Times article Parks officials offer to buy out Freed's contract
• February 11, '01 L.A. Times editorial Now what?

Crystal Cove Residents Receive Eviction Notices From State

• March 15, '01 L.A. Times article Crystal Cove Tenants Agree to Leave Cottages by July 8
• March 4, '01 L.A. Times article Crystal Cove Residents prepare to move out
• February 13, '01 L.A. Times article Crystal Cove Residents Receive Eviction Notices From State
• February 14, '01 L.A. Times article Crystal Cove Residents File Suit

Response to January's public information meeting:
State Parks backing out of resort deal

• February 5, '01 L.A. Times article Joan Irvine Smith takes stand against proposed resort
• February 2, '01 L.A. Times article Developer would consider two-million dollar buy-out

State Parks Department public information meeting
1-18-2001, 7 pm, Corona Del Mar

• Agenda, address, maps Presentations by C.S.P. Director and the Developer, + Q & A

New plans suggested for historic district cottages

• January 31, '01 O.C. Register article Environmental groups unite to fight resort
• January 28, '01 L.A. Times article Preserve some, not all of the cottages
• December 17, '00 L.A. Times article Ritzy resort or rustic retreat?
• December 9, '00 Daily Pilot article Possible alternative plan for Crystal Cove in the works
• December 4, '00 O.C. Register article New Crystal Cove plan floated

Runoff From Irvine Company's 800 New Homes to Dump Into Crystal Cove;
EPA, Fish and Wildlife Service Alarmed

• November 17, '00 O.C. Register article State water board forbids Crystal Cove runoff
• November 17, '00 L.A. Times article Regional Water Board orders end to runoff
• November 5, '00 L.A. Times editorial Enforce water standards
• October 25, '00 L.A. Times article Four sources of runoff cited
• September 15, '00 L.A. Times article Regional water quality regulators not sure if Irvine sewage runoff is legal
• September 13, '00 L.A. Times article Irvine sewage creates 10-foot-wide trench across beach
• August 11, '00 L.A. Times article Coastal Commission OK's Irvine Co. runoff plan for 635 homes
• Sept. 9, '99 Planned contamination Aerial photograph of massive runoff into the two most popular beaches
• July 7, '99 L.A. Times article (page 1) Irvine Company's massive development to fill in or alter six miles of creeks leading to beaches and tidepools

Crystal Cove State Park--
Private Developers Take Over a Prime Public Beach

• May 15, '00 L.A. Times article Locally-created alternative plan
• July 7, '99 L.A. Times article (page 1) Irvine Company's massive development
• April 6, '99 L.A. Times Editorial Secret sale of prime public land by Gov. Davis is wrong
• May 2: "No decision has been made" State Parks and Recreation Director responds to April 6 editorial
• June 7, '99 L.A. Times Editorial Governor Davis should invest surplus funds in the state parks
• Brief background history How the developers gained control
• Who are the developers?
• Important contract facts How the developers' deal conflicts with state law and public rights
• State park funds (L.A. Times editorial 2-22-'99) California must restore funding for our public parks
• Wrong Deal (Sacramento Bee editorial 10-8-'97) Legal and ethical questions about a "laughable" scam
• State parks for the rich only (L.A. Times editorial 8-6-'97) Secret deal to betray the public trust
• Sierra Club opposition to proposed development (Southern Sierran editorial 12-2-'97)
• Resort Deal Is Questioned (L.A. Times article 9-10-'97)
• Crystal Cove Resort Project Still on Track (L.A. Times article 4-4-1999)
• Map of proposed changes (9-'97)
• More recent map of proposed development (ca. 3-'99)

Help Save Crystal Cove--Stop the Take-over

• People and organizations to contact For information, or to influence the future of the park

History of Crystal Cove State Park

• Ancient local history A brief description of local Indian culture
• June 14, '99 L.A. Times article: Creating the Greenbelt and Crystal Cove State Park The past 30 years

Location of Crystal Cove State Park

• Map of Crystal Cove area, between Newport Beach and Laguna Beach
• Aerial photo #1 (click on picture to get closer)
• Aerial photo X2 (click on picture to get closer)
• Aerial photo X4 (click on picture to get closer)
• Aerial photo X8 (click on picture to get closer)
• Aerial photo X16 (click on picture to return to this page)

Related Sites

• People and organizations to contact
• Sierra Club's Crystal Cove Task Force More info and links for guided tours, ways to help
• Sierra Club, Orange County
• Sierra Club, Southern California
• Orange County Coastkeeper
• Surfrider Foundation
• Surfrider Foundation, Newport Beach Chapter
• Official California Parks info about Crystal Cove Description, camping and reservation info, phone/fax numbers
• Official California Legislative Information State bills, laws, legislators, legal news
• California Laws Index of Codes, from Business to Water
• Crystal Cove map ( Zoom in/out) Click on "get a map"
• Hiking trails map
• Crystal Cove info Plants, wildlife, hiking, swimming, parking, access
• O.C. mountain bike trails
• Crystal Cove mountain bike/hiking trails map
• Laguna Coast Wilderness Park
• Laguna Canyon Foundation Preserving, protecting and enhancing Laguna Coast Wilderness Park
• Laguna Canyon Foundation links
• Orange Coast College's Coastal Dolphin Survey Project Scientific study of dolphins' "nursery" at Crystal Cove

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