| The Plan for The Preserve, conceived nearly 20 years ago by Tom Gray and his partners, is the first successful model for achieving a sustainable balance of settlement with land conservation on a large scale. Key to the balance is the original concept of a Community Preserve, a commitment by 300 owner-families to share and protect 20,000 acres of private land, an area greater than the entire Monterey Peninsula. The concept evolved from a desire to maintain the integrity of the serene ranching experience this land has offered since the early 19th century. From five years of scientific studies of the land came a resource-based plan to sustain its character in perpetuity while providing an extraordinary quality of life for those who choose to settle here and make Santa Lucia Preserve a part of their own family legacy. |
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