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CITYHOOD COMMENT SOUGHT.


Byline: ALEX DOBUZINSKIS

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.  -- The West Ranch ranch, large farm devoted chiefly to raising and breeding cattle, horses, sheep, and goats. The cattle ranch was introduced from Latin America to Texas and the plains of the W United States and Canada.  Town Council wants more residents involved in exploring the creation of their own city and is forming a committee to talk about the area's future.

About 15 to 25 residents would serve on the Citizens Advisory Group.

As a $25,000 study on the possibility of forming a city from the communities of Stevenson Ranch, Westridge, Castaic and Val Verde Val Verde may mean:
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 gets under way, committee members will talk to residents about the study and get feedback, members of the West Ranch Town Council said.

"We're looking to get a very diverse, interested group of people who can analyze information," Councilman Dave Bossert Dave Bossert is the Creative Director for Special Projects at Disney Animation. He studied at the Character Animation program at CalArts. Among his classmates were Joe Ranft, Butch Hartman, Ralph Eggleston, and Ann Telnaes, among others.  said.

The council voted unanimously at Wednesday night's meeting to create the committee.

Meanwhile, the council is taking another step to explore cityhood. Two members of the West Ranch Town Council, plus one from the Castaic Town Council, will attend a two-day seminar in Sacramento this month dedicated to studying the formation of new cities.

County 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  will pay the tuition For tuition fees in the United Kingdom, see .

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 for a couple of the town council members attending the seminar. Antonovich is also funding the $25,000 initial study looking at cityhood for the area.

West Ranch Town Council member Ron Mechsner said the goal of the committee is to get more people talking about the area's future.

Mechsner said he only learned about the $25,000 study when Bossert announced it at last month's meeting.

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 if there's enough dollars and cents here to form a city," he said. "So let's get that information on the table."

The West Ranch Town Council asked anyone interested in sitting on the Citizens Advisory Group to attend the council's March7 meeting. The committee is open to residents of all the areas proposed for cityhood.

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