Balancing Environment and Development: Costs, Revenues, and Benefits of the Western Riverside County Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan

By Lloyd Dixon and K. C. Yeh and Benjamin Zycher

Political Science : Public Policy - Environmental Policy

Rand Corporation
Publication date: November 2008

ISBN: 9780833048240

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The Western Riverside County Multiple Species Habitat Conservation Plan(MSHCP) is an ambitious effort to balance development and environmentalconcerns in an area of rapid urban growth. In return for setting up a500,000-acre conservation reserve, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service andthe California Department of Fish and Game granted the county and cities inwestern Riverside County a 75-year "take" permit for endangered species. Thetake permit allows the cities and county to approve development projectsoutside the reserve that could negatively affect 146 sensitive plant andanimal species. The plan is supposed to speed the frequently time-consumingand litigious process of permitting new highway and development projectswhile establishing an integrated conservation reserve rather than thepatchwork of uncoordinated reserves that was so often the case in the past.The Western Riverside County Regional Conservation Authority (RCA) acquiresland for and manages the reserve. This monograph examines the value of theland needed for the reserve, the financial consequences of acquiring theland over different periods of time, and the projected costs of operatingthe reserve. It compares projected costs and revenues and identifiespotential funding sources to fill any resulting funding gap. It alsoexamines the prospect for achieving the MSHCP's habitat-conservation goalsand whether the MSHCP has, in fact, streamlined the permitting processes.Finally, it identifies issues that the RCA Board of Directors, RCA staff,and stakeholders should address to ensure the plan's success and the ongoingeconomic and ecological health of the county.

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