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We are a grassroots community movement working to save our open space zone.

A real estate development LLC has purchased portions of the Royal Vista Golf Course for $11 million in April 2021, and has submitted plans to the LA County Regional Planning Commission for 250 single family units and 72 condominiums on 75 acres, currently zoned as open space. Other parcels of the golf course are in escrow.

Reasons To Save Our Open Space Zone

• Development will increase traffic, noise, crime, pollution and overuse area resources including water
• According to the LA County Fire Department, communities need open spaces to serve as a fire break, and evacuation point. The lakes on Royal Vista are used as a source of water for air tankers to fight our increasingly frequent fires due to drought.
• Years of construction noise and moving 2,120,000 cubic yards of earth is significant, causing fugitive dust, increasing airborne fungal spores & harming the health of the community, especially individuals with an impaired immune system, and respiratory or heart conditions.
• Royal Vista is one of the last sizable green-spaces in the community, and development will destroy the wildlife habitat and corridor to the Puente Hills SEA
• Development will contribute to global warming with multi-level dense housing and road paving, which will limit ground permeability for rain water, and further deplete the water table

Royal Vista is located in Rowland Heights, an unincorporated area under the jurisdiction of LA County. The thriving and vibrant 27-hole golf course has been enjoyed by golfers from Southern California for over 58 years, as well as a clubhouse used by the community to gather for celebrations. Residents enjoy the vast open space and can be frequently seen taking evening strolls around the green open space. The golf course also serves as a habitat, sheltering possums, raccoons, skunks, coyotes, cottontail rabbits, foxes, Great Horned Owls, and Barn Owls. During the migration period, Canadian Geese rest in trees and Barn Swallows construct mud nests under adjacent homes’ eaves, using water from the 3 blue line streams flowing through the natural environment. The Puente Hills Significant Ecological Area (SEA), a natural physical link between the Santa Ana Mountains and the San Gabriel River, is 1.2 miles south of Royal Vista, which serves as a wildlife corridor to Puente Hills SEA.

Save Royal Vista exists to ensure the zoning remains as open space, the last sizable undeveloped area in Rowland Heights, serving our community as a recreational facility and preserving the wildlife that resides in the natural habitat. We want to see the land protected from development, for the benefit of residents, flora & fauna, nearby communities and future generations. Once it is gone, it is gone forever. Our vision, if it cannot remain a golf course, is to work with conservation organizations to purchase the land in perpetuity for the public.

"The greatest threat to our planet is the belief that someone else will save it." - Robert Swan

Thank you for taking action to save our open space!

SaveRoyalVista.com