[UPDATED] Huntington Beach to Annex Sacred Indian Site
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| Photo by Russ Roca |
| Chief Anthony Morales came up empty at November 2008 California Coastal Commission hearing. |
UPDATE: Jaimee Lynn Fletcher reports in Orange County Register: HUNTINGTON BEACH--The city will absorb an unincorporated county island that some environmentalists believe is an American Indian burial ground that dates back more than 8,000 years.
A proposal goes before the Huntington Beach City Council tonight to have the city annex 6.2 acres of land on the Bolsa Chica Mesa that the owner wants to sell to developers and Native Americans want preserved because it's considered sacred.
The so-called Goodell property would be zoned under the proposal for residential low-density allowing for up to 22 homes or such other uses as nursing homes, nurseries, horticulture facilities or wireless communications facilities, the Orange County Register reports today.
The same unincorporated island falls within 17 acres of land considered sacred burial grounds. However, only the Goodell plot has not been destroyed as the land surrounding it is part of now-bankrupt Hearthside Homes' Brightwater development.
As reported here, the Goodell property drew keen interest in December from the California Native American Heritage Commission, whose members were aghast that someone had built over the sacred land surrounding it. "We're going to keep our eyes and ears on it," Commissioner James Ramos, who now chairs both that panel and the San Manuel Band of Mission Indians in Highland, said of the Goodell property at the time.






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