City of Clermont issued the following announcement on Jan. 7
The City of Claremont is pleased to announce the donation of 20 acres of open space land by Arthur and Susan Bertolina. The land is located east of Webb Canyon and will be dedicated open space. “The City has had a long-standing commitment to preserving open space in our hillsides. I would like to thank the Bertolina Family for their generous gift which ensures more of our wilderness corridor remains preserved,” said Acting City Manager Adam Pirrie.
The Bertolina Family approached the City in the fall of 2019 with the donation which is appraised at $300,000. The parcel abuts the Claremont Hills Wilderness Park (CHWP) area to the east and is bounded by three privately owned parcels to the north, west, and south. Although the parcel does not connect to current CHWP trails, it is the City’s intent that the parcel remain as vacant open space.
The City would like to thank the Claremont Wildlands Conservancy for its role as a liaison between City staff and the Bertolinas throughout the negotiations and for its significant contribution to the costs of the transaction.
President Terry Grill of the Claremont Wildlands Conservancy congratulates the Bertolinas and the City of Claremont on the success of the project. “We are grateful to the Bertolinas for contributing this valuable open space to the Wilderness Park,” she said. “This addition is one more step toward our vision of extending the park westward from Johnson’s Pasture so that it links up with Marshall Canyon, helping to form a continuous wildlands corridor along the face of the San Gabriel foothills as far as Monrovia. And we commend our City, which supports efforts to expand the parkland in
our hillsides and manage it effectively.”
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