The Orange County, CA plan to build 3300 homes on the Bolsa Chica Wetlands in CA is causing quite a stir among concerned citizens and environmentalists. Koll Real Estate Group intends to develop 1600 acres of deteriorated Huntington Beach wetlands, despite environ-mental objections that the land serves as a natural habitat for dozens of endangered species of birds, mammals, and fish.

To ease the heated response to its initiative, Orange County mandated under a proposed agreement that Koll must donate at least 88 acres of land and $7 million for a public park, whether or not it receives final approval to build the homes.

and $7 million for a public park, whether or not it receives final approval to build the homes.

Koll promises to help restore the desecrated wetlands by connecting the marshes to the ocean with a working tidal inlet. Despite this extended "olive branch," however, Huntington Beach citizens and school districts are not satisfied.

The heat is on....Koll must now face the County Planning Commission in mid-February and the Board of Supervisors in mid-March for final approval before landscape development may begin.