

In 2012, Fullerton voters voted to prevent development in a referendum, Measure W. A group called Open Coyote Hills has been leading the support while a group called Friends of Coyote Hills has led the push to preserve the entire site as open space. Pacific Coast Homes plans to build 760 homes on 179 acres (0.72 km 2), while restoring and donating 352 acres to the City of Fullerton for use as the Robert E. Extraction has long since ceased, and most of the West Coyote Hills has been developed for residential and commercial use, as well as West Coyote Hills Park.Ī tract measuring 510 acres (2.1 km 2) across the ridge of the hills, owned by Pacific Coast Homes (a land development division of the Chevron Corporation), is the largest remaining tract of undeveloped land in north Orange County. The West Coyote Hills was once a major oil field, dating back to 1890. The name is appropriate, since coyotes do inhabit the area. The hills received their name from the nearby Rancho Los Coyotes by the 1870s they were being called Coyote Hills.

A division of Chevron is currently proposing to develop the portions of the land that are suitable for development, while leaving the remainder as open space. The remaining open-space area is currently the subject of a long-running dispute over residential development, pitting conservationists against a pro-development majority on the city council. There is also an East Coyote Hills area, on the east side of Fullerton, that has been almost completely developed for residential real estate. The foothill region to the east and south is known as Sunny Hills. Clark Regional Park and Euclid Street north of Rosecrans Avenue. Parts of it lie within the city limits of La Habra, Buena Park, and La Mirada, with most of it sprawling across western Fullerton between Ralph B. It contains one of the last large open-space area in north Orange County. The West Coyote Hills are a low mountain range in northern Orange County, California.
