BUILDER GETS PERMIT FOR CRUCIAL LINK STRETCH HELPS TO COMPLETE ROADWAY ON THE NEW CROSS VALLEY CONNECTOR.Byline: Eugene Tong Staff Writer SANTA CLARITA Santa Clarita, city (1990 pop. 110,642), Los Angeles co., S Calif., suburb 30 mi (48 km) NW of downtown Los Angeles, on the Santa Clara River; inc. 1987. Situated in the Santa Clara valley and nearby canyons, Santa Clarita includes the former towns of Canyon Country, - Caltrans has issued a permit - six months after it was requested - to complete a small but crucial link of the new Golden Valley Road, part of the city's much touted east-west Cross Valley Connector. The permit granted Tuesday to home builder DR Horton allows the firm and its engineers to complete a block-long stretch of the roadway between Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling and the Antelope Valley Freeway The Antelope Valley Freeway is a freeway in Los Angeles and Kern counties in southern California. It is signed as California State Highway 14 along its length. It connects Greater Los Angeles to the rapidly developing Antelope Valley. , offering motorists an alternate route An official alternate route is a bannered highway that provides an alternate alignment for a highway. Originally, the term for these routes was "optional"; but in 1959, the designation became alternate. through Santa Clarita's undeveloped core. ``I'm anticipating a real benefit,'' said Robert Newman Robert Newman can refer to:
Newman said DR Horton required state Department of Transportation approval to complete the road - installing signals, realignment re·a·lign tr.v. re·a·ligned, re·a·lign·ing, re·a·ligns 1. To put back into proper order or alignment. 2. To make new groupings of or working arrangements between. , stripping and widening - because the city's jurisdiction ended at Sierra Highway. The builder, which is developing the 148-home Canyon Gate tract in the area, applied for a permit with Caltrans in September, said Jeanne Bonfilio, a spokeswoman with the state agency. ``This is actually a very normal, average period of time for the permit process,'' she said. ``Some of them can actually take longer.'' Currently, motorists trying to access Golden Valley Road from state Route 14 must detour from the Sierra Highway exit about a mile west of the roadway. Golden Valley Road, which starts near Soledad Canyon Road, is part of the city's $245 million Cross Valley Connector. The planned east-west route bridges Interstate 5 and the Antelope Valley Freeway. Eugene Tong, (661) 257-5253 eugene.tong(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): map Map: CROSS VALLEY CONNECTOR 100 feet of construction delayed Daily News |
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