CITY KEPT OUT OF TMC SUIT FIGHT.Byline: Heather MacDonald 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, - A U.S. District Court judge on Wednesday rejected the city of Santa Clarita's attempt to intervene in the lawsuit filed against the county of 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. by the company attempting to mine sand and gravel gravel, particles of rock, i.e., stones and pebbles, usually round in form and intermediate in size between sand grains and boulders. Gravel is composed of various kinds of rock, the most common constituent being the mineral quartz. from 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. . Judge Dickran Tevrizan ruled that the city should not be involved in the lawsuit, which was filed in January by Cemex Inc., the parent company of Azusa-based Transit Mixed Concrete. The lawsuit asserts that the Board of Supervisors inappropriately used the environmental review process, which lasted more than a year, as a tool to delay and interfere with the federal government's approval of the plan. After the suit was filed, the supervisors unanimously rejected TMC's application for a surface mining permit, finding that the studies of the traffic generated by the 56.1 million ton mine were inadequate. The suit asks the judge to order that the mine be allowed to move forward without the permit. The motion was filed in order to ensure that the city's position on the board and county staff's application of state and federal law is not ignored by the court, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. City Attorney Carl Newton. |
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