ACTIVISTS SEEK COUNTY HOLDUP ON HOME DEAL; GROUP TO PRESS FOR TOXIN TEST.Byline: David Greenberg The creator of this article, or someone who has substantially contributed to it, may have a conflict of interest regarding its subject matter. It may require cleanup to comply with Wikipedia's content policies, particularly neutral point of view. Daily News Staff Writer Environmentalists will ask the Board of Supervisors on Tuesday to delay the 3,050-home Ahmanson Ranch project, claiming open space donated by developers that once was the site of a Rocketdyne lab was never tested for potential contaminants. Save Open Space claims the Planning Commission Noun 1. planning commission - a commission delegated to propose plans for future activities and developments commission, committee - a special group delegated to consider some matter; "a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours" - Milton Berle should have mandated a supplemental environmental impact report before approving the transfer of 2,633 acres of land to the Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy The Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy is an agency of the state of California in the United States founded in 1979 and dedicated to the acquisition of land in the Santa Susana and Santa Monica Mountains and the Simi Hills, north and west of Los Angeles, for preservation as open . ``There is no study. It's utterly unbelievable because public health and safety is being compromised,'' said Mary Weisbrock, an SOS SOS, code letters of the international distress signal. The signal is expressed in International Morse code as … — — — … (three dots, three dashes, three dots). member. ``Little babies, pregnant women, anyone who comes in contact or breathes in soil from Ahmanson Ranch could be exposing themselves to toxic materials.'' The Agoura Hills-based group has a suit pending against the conservancy for accepting land adjacent to Rocketdyne's Santa Susana Santa Susana can refer to several places:
Tim McGarry Tim McGarry (born 1964) is an actor and comedian from North Belfast in Northern Ireland. He is a member of the comedy group Hole In The Wall Gang, and played "Da", a Sinn Féin spokesman, in the comedy series Give My Head Peace. , spokesman for Ahmanson, said the state Department of Toxic Substances conducted tests for groundwater and soil contamination Soil contamination is the presence of man-made chemicals or other alteration in the natural soil environment. This type of contamination typically arises from the rupture of underground storage tanks, application of pesticides, percolation of contaminated surface water to on a Rocketdyne-owned land adjacent to the open-space tract and found no problems. ``This issue is a complete red herring Red Herring A preliminary registration statement that must be filed with the SEC describing a new issue of stock (IPO) and the prospects of the issuing company. Notes: ,'' he said. ``It's been trotted out and then dropped by the SOS people several times in recent years.'' Dan Beck, a Rocketdyne spokesman, said no contaminants were found in several testing areas surrounding the open-space tract, including last summer's test of the Bell Canyon area to the east of the property. The commission last month rejected an appeal by SOS of planning staffers' earlier approval to reconfigure the land, paving the way for the transfer of open space. SOS members say they also will raise the issue that the conservancy secretly gave permission to Ahmanson to install a reservoir for treated wastewater in the open-space tract. The development agreement calls for the reservoir to sit within the development tract. ``Deals like these are being made in secret without the public having awareness or a chance to comment on it,'' said Rosemary Woodlock, a lawyer for SOS. ``Why should the public give up open space so Ahmanson can store treated sewage water on it.'' Laurie Collins, the conservancy's lawyer, denied that there was any change in plans regarding the reservoir site. ``It's definitely going to be in the development area,'' she said. Supervisor Frank Schillo indicated his board likely will uphold the Planning Commission's ruling. ``It seems like they are shooting in the dark,'' he said. ``They are (blinded) by wanting to stop everything that Ahmanson does. They are set in their ways of wanting only one thing, and that's nothing.'' |
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