According to the Oak Grove Environmental Impact Report, site vegetation consists primarily of two plant communities: non-native grassland and blue-oak woodland. Nearly all of the 12,000± oak trees catalogued on the 562-acre property are mature blue, valley and live oaks clustered in natural oak groves located in valleys and on gently rolling slopes, and away from the ridgelines.

Photo by Jerry Pentin

By placing the 51 custom lots just off the ridges and by designing the lots in a way to avoid heritage oak trees, development at Oak Grove will affect just 58 heritage trees. Those 58 trees will be replaced by 410 mitigation oak trees planted to extend natural oak groves and to help screen the new homes from adjacent neighborhoods. When people buy custom lots and design their individual homes, a few additional on-lot oak trees could be affected, but these small losses will be mitigated by the planting of more than 600 new oak trees on the 51 custom lots.