Nancy Aardweg, the manager of the park's tiny general store, which also has a fine restaurant, said that some local people were concerned that the sale of the ranch might usher in a big development, changing the nature of this wild place.
One of the big development ideas over the past 10 years has been the creation of loft apartments in old industrial buildings in unfashionable parts of city centres.
There's no obvious site for them in the borough, but they could be placed on one of the big development sites west of Kensington.
Some of these startups are poised to solve big development challenges while turning a profit.
"We've built a lot of big developments in many parts of the world," Livingstone says.
A lot of the big developments in deep learning, for example, a lot of the progress that happened in speech at Apple, Microsoft and so on, all those people where summer school students who ended up doing internships at these companies.
It has assisted growth in allowing big development in the south of England, when a more dirigiste French or German state would have favoured the north and west.
It's the latest of several setbacks for the city as it seeks to remake Hollywood with a series of big developments.
Prior to his election as London mayor, Sadiq Khan praised the locals' initiative as "a great example of how big developments should work – working with local communities to design real neighbourhoods that work for the existing community".
L. How would you like to see harbor 20 years from now? D. I would like to see a world-class solution to the top end of our bay, a big seaside development that would tie in the marine recreational element with a successful commercial landside operation.
But it also does original work, like this map of the big developments around mid-Market, a part of San Francisco that houses many low-income residents and nonprofits, that has also become its newest tech corridor.
