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COLTON, Calif. (AP) — Southern California con
struction projects worth hundreds of millions are be
ing held up by a fly in the development.
The U.S. government has all but halted develop
ment across the sand dunes in the desert east of Los
Angeles to protect the tiny Delhi Sands flower-loving
fly — the only fly ever to make the Endangered species
list.
Some people cannot believe the fuss being made
over a bug.
“People feel like their community is being run by
a fly. Where it can develop, when it can develop — all
dictated by a fly,” Ray Bragg said, a development offi
cial in Fontana, one of several small cities whose plans
have been thwarted by the orange-brown insect the
size of a straight pin.
The flies’ only known breeding grounds are the Del
hi Sands dunes stretching from San Bernardino to
Riverside to Ontario, about 60 miles from Los Ange
les. The fine dunes were created by Santa Ana winds
carrying grit from the mountains and dropping it in
the desert valley.
The Delhi Sands are the largest remaining sand
dune system in the Los Angeles basin. But the few
dunes that remain are surrounded by freeways and en
croaching development. Most of them are held by pri
vate land owners.
Because the fly’s habitat is disappearing, its num
bers are down to just several thousand. In 1993 it was
designated by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as an
endangered species.
“Any time there’s a listed species that’s warm and
fuzzy and endearing, it’s easier for people to rally
around it and work together toward a common goal.
But this is about more than just God’s creatures great
and small,” Jeff Newman of the Fish and Wildlife Ser
vice said “This is a unique system with unique
species.”
Afraid the Delhi Sands fly will go the way of the El
Segundo fly, which disappeared when its breeding
grounds were paved over for a tarmac at the Los An
geles International Airport, the Fish and Wildlife Ser
vice has all but halted development on the dunes un
til it can be determined how many flies there are and
how best to protect them.
In Fontana, developers’ vision of a $500 million pro
ject of single-family homes, shopping centers and strip
malls has been dashed. Rancho Cucamonga, Ontario,
Rialto and Hemet have had to delay housing projects,
critical in a region absorbing residential overflow from
Los Angeles. Colton had hoped to build a manufac
turing plant.
About $42 million in bonds will go into default in
October because Fontana land owners unable to de
velop their land are unable to pay taxes.
Colton has $11 million in debt tied up in an idle
electrical substation that was built to supply power
to the proposed commercial developments. And the
town is in danger of losing $300 million to $500 mil
lion in commercial projects because developers are
looking elsewhere, Colton town manager Henry Gar
cia said.
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PARIS (AP) — The photogra
phers who chased Princess Diana
should be prose
cuted since the
car crash that
killed her would
not have hap
pened if not for
them, the
lawyer of her
boyfriend Dodi
Fayed’s family
said yesterday.
DIANA
The lawyer, Georges Kiejman,
criticized the state prosecutor’s
recommendation last week that
charges against nine photogra
phers and a press motorcyclist be
dropped.
The 10 are charged with
manslaughter and failure to assist
persons in danger.
“These recommendations are
surprising,” said Kiejman, who is
representing Mohamed Al Fayed,
Dodi’s father.
“They distort the facts,” he said.
Investigating judge Herve
Stephan, who is expected to con
clude his own probe soon, is not
obliged to follow the state prose
cutor’s recommendation.
Diana, Dodi and their driver,
Henri Paul, were killed in a Paris
traffic tunnel Aug. 31, 1997.
Only bodyguard Tfevor Rees-
Jones survived.
Paul was drunk at the time of
the crash, and alcohol and exces
sive speed are considered the
main causes of the accident.
Initial blame was put on the
photographers chasing Diana.
Kiejman said the driver would
never have sped to get away from
them if “the occupants of the car
had not been harassed.”
He said he would appeal
should the judge decide not to
send the photographers to trial.
For his part, Rees-Jones — the
bodyguard and a former Al Fayed
employee — has filed a suit
against the Ritz Hotel and the lim
ousine company that supplied the
Mercedes for Dodi and Diana.
Rees-Jones charges they en
dangered lives by allowing a
drunk and unqualified driver to
act as chauffeur.
Dodi and Diana dined at the
Ritz, which Al-Fayed owns, short
ly before the crash.
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