CITY COUNCIL BEGINS PROCESS TO ANNEX LAND FROM VALENCIA.Byline: Sherry Joe Crosby Daily News Staff Writer Despite questions about the city's ability to handle burgeoning development, the City Council has begun annexing a 1,600-acre boot-shaped parcel in Valencia that could bring 5,000 people into 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, . On Tuesday, the Council took the first of many steps to annex the Northbridge subdivision and portions of the Valencia Industrial Center. The Local Agency Formation Commission, which oversees all municipal boundary changes in 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, has final say on the annexation annexation, in international law, formal act by which a state asserts its sovereignty over a territory previously outside its jurisdiction. Many kinds of territory have been subject to annexation, chief among them those inhabited by settlers of the annexing power, area, bordered by Decoro Drive, McBean Parkway, Bouquet Canyon Road and Magic Mountain Parkway. If approved, the area annexed would include a 955-acre parcel where 1,800 homes are planned around a man-made lake. The property also is the site of a failed condominium condominium In modern property law, individual ownership of one dwelling unit within a multidwelling building. Unit owners have undivided ownership interest in the land and those portions of the building shared in common. proposal, which fizzled after the Santa Clarita Organization for Planning the Environment won a lawsuit last year contending the project would overburden o·ver·bur·den tr.v. o·ver·bur·dened, o·ver·bur·den·ing, o·ver·bur·dens 1. To burden with too much weight; overload. 2. To subject to an excessive burden or strain; overtax. n. 1. public services Public services is a term usually used to mean services provided by government to its citizens, either directly (through the public sector) or by financing private provision of services. . Now critics fear developer Newhall Land and Farming Co. will try to revive the project in the city, which unlike the county has no development monitoring system and possibly no way of ensuring that its public services will be protected from population growth. ``The biggest issue is not having a (development monitoring system),'' said SCOPE first Vice President Lynne Plambeck, one of several annexation opponents. ``They could bring back the exact same project.'' A development monitoring plan would require developers to offset the effects of population growth on roads, libraries, schools and other public services. Los Angeles County adopted its development monitoring system in the late 1980s. But Newhall Land officials said they would comply with city development standards and make any necessary changes to the project. ``It's a project we would start over with,'' said Rich Knowland, a Newhall Land project manager. ``The destiny for this area is the city, and this is the beginning of a very lengthy process.'' Opponents also worry the city lacks the tools to protect the Santa Clara River Santa Clara River may refer to:
|
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion