What is the Natural Community Conservation Plan and Habitat Conservation Plan (NCCP/HCP)?
The Natural Community Conservation Plan (NCCP) is a regional land use and conservation plan that the City participates in and signed in the mid 1990s. It created a regional network of land reserves to protect entire communities of native plants and animals, while at the same time allowing development to move forward in other areas. The goal of the program is to bring much-needed certainty, both for protection of California’s unique natural legacy, and for economic growth and use of private property. The City believes that protecting, restoring, and managing large blocks of native habitat under the plan is a more effective way to manage development than the project-by-project regulation of years past. It also results in a better outcome for the rare open spaces in Irvine. The Habitat Conservation Plan (HCP) is essentially the same thing, it is the mechanism by which the federal government permitted Irvine’s land use and conservation program.
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