2-CITY PANEL CLEARING WAY FOR ROAD OPENING.Byline: Teresa Jimenez Daily News Staff Writer A road built by developers seven years ago to link Agoura Hills and Calabasas may finally open in 1997 with the resolution of a series of legal issues. In the meantime Adv. 1. in the meantime - during the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified" meantime, meanwhile , officials from Calabasas and Agoura Hills are planning to form a committee that would decide such issues as the number of lanes the Agoura Road link should have and what type of lighting should be installed, said Dave Adams, Agoura Hills city manager. ``Here's this new road and you can't use it,'' Adams said. ``The (Lost Hills) sheriff's office is right there and the community center will be right there, but you can't get there without going down to the (Ventura Freeway The Ventura Freeway is a freeway in southern California running from Ventura to Pasadena. It is the principal east-west route through Ventura County and in the southern San Fernando Valley in Los Angeles County. ).'' The opening of the link has been delayed by legal battles, including one between the Las Virgenes Municipal Water District and developers of the road over damages to a water pipe from a landslide landslide, rapid slipping of a mass of earth or rock from a higher elevation to a lower level under the influence of gravity and water lubrication. More specifically, rockslides are the rapid downhill movement of large masses of rock with little or no hydraulic flow, , which the agency said was caused by an improperly im·prop·er adj. 1. Not suited to circumstances or needs; unsuitable: improper shoes for a hike; improper medical treatment. 2. graded hillside Hillside may refer to: Places
A jury decided in favor of upon the side of; favorable to; for the advantage of. See also: favor the water district, which will receive about $900,000 to make some of the repairs needed to open the Agoura Road link. The landslide occurred after a slope was cut into the hillside during construction of the two-lane road, said Gil Borboa, principal engineer for the water district. The slide resulted in breaks in a water district pipeline installed 25 years earlier to provide water to Agoura Hills and Westlake Village. ``The developer said the breaking pipe cause the hill to move. But we said, `No, it was improperly graded,' '' Borboa said. ``We had to place 30-inch and 28-inch water lines on the road. We went to court for the cost of the temporary bypass line and to bury Bury (bĕ`rē), city (1991 pop. 60,785) and metropolitan district, NE England, located in the Manchester metropolitan area on the Irwell River and linked by canal with Bolton and Manchester. the pipes.'' Agoura Road will remain closed until the pipes are buried bur·y tr.v. bur·ied, bur·y·ing, bur·ies 1. To place in the ground: bury a bone. 2. a. To place (a corpse) in a grave, a tomb, or the sea; inter. b. , Borboa said. The district is waiting for payment of the money by developers Curry-Riach and Cabot, Cabot and Forbes. Those two companies are involved in their own lawsuit over the project, a Curry-Riach representative said. But the developers have told the water district that their dispute should be resolved soon, Borboa said. Once it receives the money, the district plans to bury the pipes - a project that should be completed by late spring or early summer. ``Right now, we're pretty close to taking care of that,'' Borboa said. ``We've settled the issue with the developer and we expect payment very soon.'' |
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