Navigating Land Use Approval Located in the Tehachapi Mountains adjacent to Los Angeles County, Tejon Mountain Village was proposed as an environmentally sensitive resort community that would integrate conservation, limited development and continued ranching and farming on the 240,000-acre Tejon Ranch. The project moved forward based on the historic Tejon Ranch Conservation and Land Use Agreement, a pact among the Tejon Ranch Company, the Natural Resources Defense Council, the Sierra Club, the Planning and Conservation League, the Endangered Habitats League and Audubon California. Hailed at the state and national levels as a model for consensual conservation and development planning on private lands, the Agreement required the preservation of 90 percent of the 240,000-acre Tejon Ranch and

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