APPROVAL PAVES WAY FOR SCHOOL.Byline: Amy Raisin Staff Writer STEVENSON RANCH Stevenson Ranch, California (in the 91381 ZIP Code) is a Los Angeles County, USA, unincorporated community west of Santa Clarita a few miles south of Six Flags Magic Mountain amusement park. The Stevenson Ranch fountain was redone in 2007. - Five years behind on building a new school, Newhall School District The Newhall School District is a school district in the Santa Clarita Valley that serves the Valencia and Newhall communities within the city of Santa Clarita, California, as well as the Stevenson Ranch community in unincorporated Los Angeles County. administrators were encouraged Tuesday after county supervisors approved a development that includes the Pico Canyon Elementary site. Marc Winger, superintendent of the school district, said the Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County Board of Supervisors' approval Tuesday of Stevenson Ranch's Phase III development cleared the way for approval of the site at the state level. ``What we needed was the county's approval of Phase III to know the school would move forward. We got that,'' Winger said. ``There will be conditions and requirements for the developers, but this is a step forward.'' The unanimous vote enables the developer, Lennar Communities, to proceed with grading on the Pico Canyon site, located between The Old Road and Stevenson Ranch Parkway. Construction cannot begin, however, until county staffers prepare routine documents dictating the legal terms of the development. Conal McNamara, planning deputy for Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich Michael Dennis Antonovich (born 1939 in Los Angeles, California) is a member of the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors representing the Fifth District, which covers northern Los Angeles County, the Antelope, Santa Clarita, Pasadena, and parts of the San Fernando and San , said the vote is a victory for the overcrowded o·ver·crowd v. o·ver·crowd·ed, o·ver·crowd·ing, o·ver·crowds v.tr. To cause to be excessively crowded: a system of consolidation that only overcrowded the classrooms. school district. ``Antonovich is very excited that a much-needed school will be built in the Newhall School District,'' McNamara said. ``This is another example of a county project being approved with a school being built up-front.'' Concerned about uprooting oak trees and plans to cover parts of a creek bed with concrete, environmentalists have tried to block the development. But they face an uphill battle because of school overcrowding overcrowding overcrowding of animal accommodation. Many countries now publish codes of practice which define what the appropriate volumetric allowances should be for each species of animal when they are housed indoors. Breaches of these codes is overcrowding. . The school district has adopted a year-round calendar and froze enrollment at its newest campus, Stevenson Ranch School, at nearly double its capacity. The district has already signed off on geological studies and mitigation at the Pico Canyon school site, Winger said, and now awaits approval from the Division of State Architects and the state Department of Education. ``I'm thrilled. If you told me a few months ago that we'd be moving on this, I don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. that I'd have believed it,'' Winger said. |
|
||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion