Planning Panel OKs Huge Development
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The zoning changes necessary to build the mammoth Newhall Ranch development in the Santa Clarita Valley won unanimous approval Wednesday from the Los Angeles County Regional Planning Commission.
The vote came after 14 months of rancorous public hearings on the project, which will cover 19 square miles and house 70,000 people between the Golden State Freeway and the Ventura County border.
The decision must now be approved by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors. Two key Ventura County supervisors have publicly complained that their concerns about the project were ignored.
On Wednesday, Ventura Supervisors John Flynn and Kathy Long, along with about a dozen activists from both counties, were not allowed to address the commission until after the vote was taken. A mistake in the agenda had wrongly advertised the session as a public hearing, and planning commissioners refused to allow more input.
Late Wednesday, angry Ventura officials drew up paperwork to appeal key portions of the plan. They contend that a 7,000-acre piece of property owned by Newhall Land and Farming Co., which extends into Ventura County, has never been legally separated from the parcel to be developed into Newhall Ranch.
The proposal--and the appeal--will go before the Los Angeles County supervisors next spring.
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