847-HOME SUBDIVISION ENDORSED BY PANEL; DEVELOPMENT WOULD INCLUDE COLLEGE CAMPUS.Byline: Charles F. Bostwick Daily News Staff Writer Planning commissioners Thursday night endorsed a controversial, long-delayed plan to build an 847-home subdivision that would include a second Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties. campus, thus sending the project on to the City Council for a final decision. An overflow crowd filled the Palmdale City Council chambers Thursday for four hours of testimony and debate that preceded the commission's 4-0 vote in favor of upon the side of; favorable to; for the advantage of. See also: favor the College Park development, which would include a golf course and a small shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into as well as homes and the 80-acre college campus. ``We wanted to make sure that what went in there - not just the college, which is obviously an asset, but the neighborhood - is an asset,'' commission chairman John Mayfield explained Friday. Planned for 540 acres on the south side of Barrel Springs Road between 37th and 47th Streets East, College Park is scheduled to go June 9 before the City Council, whose members in the past have expressed reservations about whether it fits city land use plans. The project is opposed by neighbors, who say its tract homes and traffic would ruin their rural area - now rolling, brush covered hills bordered by a few scattered Scattered Used for listed equity securities. Unconcentrated buy or sell interest. homes on large lots. The revised plan endorsed by the commission calls for a smaller shopping center and fewer homes than originally planned, and also puts homes on the larger lots nearest the existing houses, officials said. Some of the other homes would be built on lots of 6,000 square feet or smaller. More than 20 Palmdale residents and business leaders testified before the commission, most of them in favor of the project because of the college campus, Mayfield said. Commissioner Barbara Mathews excused herself from the discussion and vote on the project because she is employed by Antelope Valley College. Antelope Valley College officials have been pushing hard for the project, saying they need the new campus to better serve residents of the southeastern valley. The acreage on which the campus would be built would be donated do·nate v. do·nat·ed, do·nat·ing, do·nates v.tr. To present as a gift to a fund or cause; contribute. v.intr. To make a contribution to a fund or cause. by landowner David P. Bushnell David P. Bushnell (March 31, 1913 - March 24, 2005) was an American entrepreneur. Mr. Bushnell founded his company, Bushnell, in 1948. At that time, binoculars were largely an item of luxury. , founder of Bushnell Binoculars binoculars Optical instrument for providing a magnified view of distant objects, consisting of two similar telescopes, one for each eye, mounted on a single frame. In most binoculars, each telescope has two prisms, which reinvert the inverted image provided by the eyepiece . College President Linda Spink secured Palmdale School District The Palmdale School District is a school district that serves a major part of the city of Palmdale, California (USA). The Palmdale School District was first formed in 1888. Approximately 28,000 students are enrolled in the Palmdale School District. trustees' endorsement of the plan this week, saying if the project is not approved by June it will miss out on funding from the $9.2 billion school bond passed in November by California voters. College officials said the college's first phase would cost more than $30 million and could hold its first classes in the fall of 2004. |
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