[pct-l] Military Assuaged over Tejon Development

[dsaufley at sprynet.com (dsaufley@sprynet.com)]

Yes, the PCTA Board has been very focused on these discussions (I know that Christine Kudjia was concerned and involved).  I saw a preliminary tract map of the development; it would lay right over where the PCT is now.  At the time, Tejon Ranch's LLC wasn't saying much; hopefully that's changed (I believe the Ranch and it's holdings are now owned by Time Warner).  Tejon Ranch/Time Warner has not been hiker friendly in the past.  The PCTA certainly has their work cut out for them.  

The Antelope Valley is home to aerospace firms and an Air Force installtion (Edwards AFB).  In fact, there's been a effort for the past 30 years (or more!) to try to bring and international airport to the AV, to take pressure off of LAX.  But in all the years, nothing has come of it.  They do a lot of test flights over the area.  As shown in the movie, "The Right Stuff", Chuck Yeager and crew were based out there (Rosamond, I think), and all of their experimental flights were over the Mojave basin.  Jeff and I were xcountry skiing in Mammoth recently, and were very entertained by a pair of what appeared to be Tomcats doing rolls above us.  

-=Donna Saufley=-


-----Original Message-----
From: Craig Milo Rogers <rogers@isi.edu>
Sent: Jan 24, 2005 3:46 PM
To: pct-l@mailman.backcountry.net
Subject: [pct-l] Military Assuaged over Tejon Development

	The Tejon Ranch Corp. which owns lots of land in the Tahachapi
Mtns., has proposed to create a new town (Centennial, which sounds
like something James Mitchner wrote about) or two in the near future.
One impediment to that plan was concern by the U.S. military that
development in the area would close air routes that are used for
aircraft pilot training.

	According to this article, the U.S. DoD has agreed that the
proposed Tejon Ranch development won't degrade the DoD's ability to
train its pilots in the area:

http://www.sacbee.com/state_wire/v-print/story/12126080p-12996959c.html

	This is related to the PCT because there is the rumor that,
if allowed to implement their development plans, the Tejon Ranch Corp.
will allow the rerouting of the nearby portions of the PCT to a more
favorable (higher, cooler, more crest-like) alignment.

					Craig Milo Rogers
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