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A land patent application made by Archbishop of San Francisco Joseph Sadoc Alemany on behalf of the church was confirmed for 191 acres (77 ha; 0.298 sq mi; 0.77 km 2) in 1859. Mission San Fernando was established 1797 under Charles IV of Spain and similarly had its lands confiscated in 1833.
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The Robert Taylor Ranch is a ranch located on Mandeville Canyon Road, in the Brentwood section of Los Angeles, California. The ranch was built in 1956 for Waite Phillips and designed by architect Robert Byrd. [1] It is about 112 acres (0.45 km 2) large, with more than 20,000 square feet of living space. [1]
These California land grants were made by Spanish (1784–1821) and Mexican (1822–1846) authorities of Las Californias and Alta California to private individuals before California became part of the United States of America. [1] Under Spain, no private land ownership was allowed, so the grants were more akin to free leases.
The home also sits on a hefty, 6,000-square-foot lot. “Home has not been cleared of contamination and will be transferred to the new buyer in its current state,” the listing says.
Tejon Ranch will set aside 178,000 acres (720 km 2) for conservation and will provide an option for public purchase of an additional 62,000 acres (250 km 2) – 49,000 to create a state park, 10,000 to realign 37 miles (60 km) of the Pacific Crest hiking trail, and the rest for docent-led tours of "sensitive habitat." Tejon Ranch will accept ...
Issi Romem, an economist at the Terner Center for Housing Innovation at the University of California, Berkeley said: "...as long as abundant new housing was built to accommodate those drawn to California, housing price growth was limited and the state's allure was channeled into population growth: From 1940 to 1970 California's population grew 242 percent faster than the national pace, while ...
The subdivision comprised about 80 acres of the 2,000 acre tract acquired from the San Fernando Mission Land Company; the remaining 3,000 acres held by Angeles Mesa had been subdivided into tracts of 5 to 40 acres for agricultural development and a considerable portion was adapted to citriculture while San Fernando Mission still held about ...