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Eagle Rock is also known as Cerrito Peak
–The Morro Bay Open Space Alliance (MBOSA) announced that it has successfully recorded a conservation easement on the deed for Eagle Rock in April 2021. The alliance concluded an agreement to purchase the conservation easement with the City of Morro Bay in 2020. The city will continue to own the parcel, but it will remain open space in perpetuity.
Beginning in fall 2017, the Morro Bay Open Space Alliance ran a fund-raising campaign to purchase a conservation easement from the City of Morro Bay on the topmost central parcel of Eagle Rock in south Morro Bay. In spring 2020, MBOSA achieved its goal of raising $265,000 to exchange for the conservation easement on the property. The project was completed in April 2021 when the easement was recorded on the deed. This conservation easement will ensure that no development occurs on this parcel and is binding on all owners, current, and future.
The Morro Bay Open Space Alliance purchased Cerrito Peak, also known as Eagle Rock, from the city of Morro Bay in April, a move that will preserve the open space for residents and visitors alike. During the May 11 Morro Bay City Council meeting, nonprofit co-chair Glenn Silloway spoke during public comment, saying that the Alliance had finally finished its project to conserve Eagle Rock by recording a conservation easement agreement with the city on the property s deed. This will bind future owners to keep Eagle Rock as an open space in perpetuity, Silloway said. It s finally a done deal. Within this agreement, the city will retain ownership and continue routine maintenance of the open space.