The County of Orange decided to spend public tax dollars on a road widening project in unincorporated territory near the City of Brea. The County proposed to widen the two lane rural road into four lanes. This would not only have encouraged development of a beautiful hillside area, but it would also make it harder for wildlife like deer and bobcats to safely move across the widened road. In the proposal, it called for k-rail down the middle of the road—making it even more challenging for wildlife to cross. Hills For Everyone did not object to the bridge repair the County also proposed.
At the end of the widening project, the road would have merged back to another two lane road in Los Angeles County. We filed many objections backed by studies and documents. Once we forced the County to reveal the cost of this road, the proposal was defeated saving taxpayers $181 million for a little over 1.5 miles.