We’re stepping up our effort to save all 510 acres of West Coyote Hills and so is a generous Fullerton donor who is putting up $10,000 to challenge the community to do the same. Your support so far has resulted in the pending purchase of the east si...
It’s been over a year of Covid-19 pandemic lock-down and the case for saving all 510-acres of West Coyote Hills as a park and preserve has never been more cogent. People have rediscovered this open space jewel as a respite during a year of work- and sch...
It came as a great disappointment today when the California State Supreme Court denied our petition review our Measure W lawsuit. It doesn’t mean they don’t think it’s important or that they side with the City or Chevron or The Friends, but that the...
The Friends of Coyote Hills has filed a petition with the California Supreme Court to review our Measure W lawsuit against the City of Fullerton and Chevron-Pacific Coast Homes. At issue is the City of Fullerton’s handling of the people’s 2012 referen...
The 4th District Court of Appeals sidestepped the people’s referendum right issue when it ruled against on their Measure W lawsuit on 12/6/18. The judges framed this lawsuit more narrowly as business contract between Chevron-PCH and the City ...
The effort to Save Coyote Hills got a real boost this week when $19.8M was allocated to the California State Coastal Conservancy to acquire and open West Coyote Hills. This was thanks to Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva and former State Senator Josh Newma...
The Fullerton City Council is making another attempt to derail Senator Josh Newman’s proposed Senate Bill 714 (SB-714) which would provide $15M of state funding towards the acquisition of West Coyote Hills for open space. This was discussed at its Febru...
This may be surprising considering the Friends of Coyote Hills is locked in a lawsuit with the City of Fullerton and Chevron-Pacific Coast Homes to uphold the public’s 2012 Measure W vote which should have overturned the City Council’s approval of the...
As Council Turns Down $15 Million for Coyote Hills Acquisition In the August 2017 issue of the Fullerton Observer, I wrote a somewhat tongue-in-cheek piece titled “I’m All for Saving Coyote Hills… Unless It Can Actually Be Done”. This was in respo...
Recently, Assemblywoman Sharon Quirk-Silva and State Senator Josh Newman took significant actions to help preserve Coyote Hills as a natural open space park in park-poor North Orange County. They authored state legislations Assembly Bill (AB) 510 and Sena...
