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Laguna Salada Development
The world's largest development project, the development of 100 sq.miles (surface area) of dry lagoon and surrounding areas encompassing 400-500 square miles of land, Laguna Salada in Baja California Mexico, will create the world's largest eco-resort by creating a Trust to work in partnership with the indigenous Cucapah people and several local Ejidos for the development of their economy and the protection and breeding of two of the world's most endangered species. We do this by commitment to biologically sound, principled development practices. Using only geothermal and solar resources for energy and desalination and creating an extension of the Sea of Cortez creating a shrimp net-free living for the Vaquita and Totoaba, we still allow fishing for this incredible fish, a favorite for sport and table while increasing their numbers in their natural environment. The Vaquita (the world's smallest porpoise) and Totoaba (world's largest croaker) are both endangered by shrimping in the Gulf of California because of idiosyncrasies of their behavior and use of shrimp nets.
This is a desert environment and water is scare in the area. The nearby Colorado rarely reaches the Delta. Tijuana cannot take any more water from the Colorado and is purchasing water from San Diego where Otay Water District. Water is, once again, the key to developing anything in this area. The ability to make high quality potable water for use of humans creates an opportunity to reuse that water with biologically sound principles for the development of needed biology in the area. Virtually 100% of the water in the area will be reused onsite or near-site to develop the carbon elements needed by the ground for a healthy biologically active soil. We are committed to using every asset to its fullest biological extent to reduce waste and cooperate with nature to the fullest extent possible creating a clean, safe, healthy environment to live in and leading the way for future developments to follow.
That is why this development has taken 4 years to develop the multi-volume business plan to ensure biological sensitivity which creating a thriving environment for living things and for the local economy.
For instance, the west side of the lagoon area is very shallow, actually measured from inches to two feet in depth, but which lends itself to use for fish farming and vast wetlands. This allows for increased lagoon circulation as water can now follow its natural, northern hemisphere counter clockwise circulation pattern and flow virtually through the entire lagoon area while creating a flow through sustainable fish farms where wetlands are created to cycle nutrients and return water to the Gulf in a healthy state.
Our care for the biology of the area is based on decades of experience caring for plants and fishes, organic gardening practices and preservation of endangered species and the study of the biological systems that support them.
While we want to interfere with development as little as possible to allow for a thriving economy, the rules for development require environmental responsibility and biological sensitivity and efficiency. We must do this in general, but especially when our water comes from and returns to a world class biological treasure like the Sea of Cortez.
Professor Newcomb and Enrique Sanchez (JD) have been working with the indigenous Cucapah people and the governments of Baja California and Mexico on the largest environmentally sound development project ever conceived. The Cucapah granted to an Option to Lease the land late in October 2008 for the tnire property measuring some 513 square miles. Using renewable geothermal energy for electricity and water needs, this will be the first zero emission resort development in the world. The Cucapah hold board level positions in the organizations which will oversee the project and will be the primary beneficiaries of the leasing activities in their portion of the lagoon. Ejidos will be incorporated into the project when sound development of their lands is planned and committed to. No projects which do not incorporate full environmental sensitivity will be created in the area, however, this just takes some simple rules as to what can and cannot be done and a few rules on what cleansers to use and what not to use.
Further, all projects will help to build the local economic base of the area to the benefit of the current land owners and the local workers. The project will bring hundreds of thousands of jobs to the area.
This will require tremendous efforts on the part of the state and federal governments, but the return to them is also enormous more than doubling the economy of Mexicali in the next 20-30 years.
All energy for both desalination and electricity on site will be done using the existing geothermal energy available on site though various binary electric technologies (likely UTC Power's PureCycle device) and our geothermal desalination technology creating a virtual zero emission project. All buildings will be heavily insulated and the use of recycled materials will be mandated.
At the same time, investors will enjoy great returns as the cost of land is, through the leases and sales, limited to a percentage of gross profits, or developed islands will benefit the developer, and so forth. Residential land will be sold in tiered developments of differing sizes for different residents. Residential island developments will also be tiered to allow for occupancy by a wide range of budgets from condominium to multiple lots to individual island lots. Land sales will be managed through a Trust established to protect the biological reserve and develop the local infrastructure.
We are proud to play the key role in this project.
These are clickable image maps of the lagoons with markers indicating the position the panoramas were taken from, Lagoon area. These images were taken in April of 2007.
Here is a brief introductory power point presentation. Our organizational chart is here, or in PDF Volume 8 below.
David Rose of the Regents Group and Professor Newcomb are the the original development team for Anaheim GardenWalk. Mr. Rose, currently involved in other developments in Anaheim including holding the rights to developing the Convention Center's newest hotel complex and will be the coordinator for American developers who wish to come into the project. His experience is extensive and valuable to the project. Large developers will choose to develop in certain zones, and create themed developments. Each theme will vary and are not limited to our limited creativity, but the themes must be, of course, beach resort themes. To give an idea of how this works, we have prepared five brief flash and text introductions to illustrate five themes. Please note the maps used are from an earlier development map (The positions of the dykes and circulation are different):
- The Americas theme
- The Arabia theme
- The Mediterranean theme
- The East Indies themes
- And the Special Biological Reserve presentation.
This project will be world renowned as a green project using only renewable energy with the exception of natural gas for cooking and automobile use of gasoline. Only 8 miles from the U.S. border, the resort is eminently accessible for people from all over the world who wish to experience this incredible location and see human development the way it should be done.
The socioeconomic impact of the project will impact all of Mexico but especially Baja as this area grows, educating people into higher levels of employment and service, and the vast majority of jobs accrue to the local population.
Below is the 12 volume business plan plus two sizes of the property map with colored overlays for each property as it is now understood (more than likely some of this needs to be altered). Please be aware, several are sizable documents. Each of these documents is under "rolling revision" management as they are intended to keep persons up to date on the latest thinking in each area and are frequently modified. July 27, 2008 we modified these plans, adding volume 12 and inserting a web link in most of these (not in the plat map or org chart) which will link back to the current document at any given time if you wish to view or download the current plans.
8/22/08 Update included expanding the shopping center concept into resort destinations with golf attached to them as the location for water reuse (lower right side below). The golf course can expand either by adding greens or simply adding landscaping to use all the water reuse of the resort. And reworking the text portion to update the materials.
9/5/08 Update, Paulownia foresting operations are now illustrated in Volume 12. Three of the four envisioned usages are illustrated. Updated to other aspects of volumes 1, 7, 10, and 12.
9/17/08 Update includes the newest map for the dikes and circulation, revised plans and presentations.
9/27/08 Updates on Cucapah participation and the magnitude of order effect on value of various components.
10/25/08 KMZ files added.
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