CITY GOVERNMENT MOVES AHEAD ON MANY FRONTS.Byline: Patricia Farrell Aidem 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, - This was the year Santa Clarita stopped peddling fast to catch up and spent its efforts on new projects. A dozen years of finishing haluilt roads, building long-promised neighborhood parks Neighborhood parks, which generally range in size up to 30 acres, serve as a social and recreational focal points for neighborhoods and are the basic units of a park system. Many include a playground. and struggling to meet the demands of one of California's fastest growing cities ended and fresh ideas were fulfilled. ``We got so much done this year,'' city spokeswoman Gail Ortiz said. ``We're spending money on parks on roads, all the things the people ask for.'' Starting off the year 2000, Santa Clarita opened Central Park - bringing this sports-crazed city eight new playing fields with lights, rolling grassy grass·y adj. grass·i·er, grass·i·est 1. Covered with or abounding in grass. 2. Resembling or suggestive of grass, as in color or odor. Adj. 1. fields, walking trails and plans for more. The encore was Santa Clarita's third Metrolink Station, named for retiring Councilwoman Jan Heidt, who was elected in 1987 to the first City Council and subsequently re-elected. The station, with its nostalgic street lighting and Old Western-style architecture set the stage for the the ongoing redevelopment of the struggling Newhall business district. At the other end of what is emerging as Old Town Newhall, a plot of land was earmarked for Santa Clarita's first veterans' memorial. The city received $250,000 in state funding to buy land for the project planned by local veterans who will collect donations for construction. The memorial is planned on a triangular-shaped property on Chestnut Street and Newhall Avenue. Across town in Canyon Country, construction began on a new teen center at the Santa Clarita Sports Complex. And plans were drawn for a new aquatics center at the complex, with construction to start in 2001. ``We're designing our first-ever aquatics center,'' Ortiz said. ``It'll have an Olympic-sized pool, the first one in the city.'' Hoping to ease Santa Clarita's traffic crunch, the city began its first major road projects - construction of Golden Valley Road. The highway will link 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 to Soledad Canyon Soledad Canyon is a long narrow canyon / valley located in Los Angeles County, California between the cities of Palmdale and Santa Clarita. Soledad Canyon contains the localities of Vincent, Acton, Ravenna, and Agua Dulce. Road, and provide an access to the planned Golden Valley High School. Another major road project was completed - the bridge spanning the South Fork South Fork may refer to:
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