Wildlife Conservation
Board Approves Purchase of 103 Acres of CALC's
208-Acre Bolsa Chica Mesa Property
IRVINE, Calif., Aug. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ --
California Coastal
Communities, Inc. (Nasdaq: CALC) reported that the
State's Wildlife
Conservation Board approved the previously announced
agreement to purchase the Company's 103-acre lower
bench of the Bolsa Chica mesa for $65 million, which
transaction remains subject to shareholder approval.
The proposed transaction
received overwhelming support, with favorable
comments from Assembly member
Tom Harman from Huntington Beach and Flossie Horgan
of the Bolsa Chica Land
Trust, plus more than 270 letters of support from
the public. In their
November 2000 decision, the Coastal Commission
suggested that the lower bench
of the mesa be preserved as upland habitat.
Raymond J. Pacini, CEO of the Company, stated: "We
are pleased that the
Wildlife Conservation Board approved the agreement.
Using Proposition
50 funds to acquire the property achieves the
Coastal Commission's goal of
preserving the lower bench as upland habitat. The
only step left is for the
Commission to approve our application for 379 homes
on the upper bench. We
believe that our plan for the upper bench complies
with the Coastal Act and
remain hopeful that the Coastal Commission will
approve our permit application
at its October hearing."
The Company is a residential land development and
homebuilding company
operating in southern California. The Company's
principal subsidiaries are
Signal Landmark and Hearthside Homes, Inc. Signal
Landmark owns 208 acres on
the Bolsa Chica Mesa, which overlooks the Pacific
Ocean and the Bolsa Chica
wetlands in Orange County, California. Hearthside
Homes, Inc. has delivered
over 1,600 homes to families throughout southern
California over the last nine
years.
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Further Acquisitions by
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foreseeable future,
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determined that such acquisitions
could jeopardize the Company's ability to preserve
and use its NOLs.
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SOURCE California Coastal Communities, Inc.
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