Stunning valley locals erupt in fury as 100-year-old orange grove is set to be torn down and replaced by multi-million dollar luxury homes By James Cirrone For Dailymail.Com Published: 21:08, 22 August 2024 | Updated: 21:15, 22 August 2024 e-mail View comments An orange grove just outside Los Angeles that's been around for 100 years will likely be wiped out in favor of multi-million dollar single family homes. Now just 14 acres, the Bothwell Ranch is than less one-thousandth the size it once was, before San Fernando Valley was populated with houses and commercial buildings.
It is the last commercial orange grove in the valley. The ranch itself, named for famed agriculturalist Lindley Bothwell who bought the farmland in 1926, is already surrounded on all sides by houses and all the normal trappings of suburbia. Loren Borstein of Borstein Enterprises is the man behind the plan to rip up the majority of the orange grove and build 21 two-story homes.
And following a public hearing on Wednesday to collect comments from critics, Henry Chu, the city zoning administrator for the project, signaled that he's inclined to approve the proposed development within a few weeks, The Los Angeles Times reported. Pictured: The Bothwell Ranch, which used to be 100 acres, is now down to 14 acres after the family that owned it for decades gradually sold off pieces of the farmland Based on the current development plan, 215 existing citrus trees will remain The fate of the Bothwell Ranch has been in .