COLLEGE OKS DEAL FOR SITE CAMPUS WOULD BE NEAR HOUSING DEVELOPMENT.Byline: Jim Skeen Staff Writer PALMDALE - Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties. has approved an agreement with developers for nearly 70 acres of foothill land for a Palmdale campus. The college campus along 37th Street East, south of Barrel Springs Road, is part of the 540-acre College Park project, a proposed 800-home housing development. ``We're real excited we have a definitive place for the Palmdale campus to go,'' said board member Michael Adams
Michael Adams (born November 17, 1971 in Truro, Cornwall, England) is an International Grandmaster of chess. . ``The plan is to have the site ... graded and have modular units there in 2007.'' The agreement was approved Monday night by the college's board on a 4-0 vote, with member Jack Seefus absent. The land donation is tied to the approval of a second agreement in which the college will provide $5 million for installing streets and other public improvements. That agreement is expected to come before the college board Oct. 14. The college site had been owned by Bushnell Binoculars binoculars Optical instrument for providing a magnified view of distant objects, consisting of two similar telescopes, one for each eye, mounted on a single frame. In most binoculars, each telescope has two prisms, which reinvert the inverted image provided by the eyepiece founder David Bushnell Noun 1. David Bushnell - American inventor who in 1775 designed a man-propelled submarine that was ineffectual but subsequently earned him recognition as a submarine pioneer (1742-1824) Bushnell, Father of the Submarine , who died in March. The land for the campus is being donated by a development partnership of Bushnell Enterprises and Schoellerman Investments. The balance of the College Park land is being acquired by Western Pacific Housing, a division of DR Horton, the nation's largest home builder. The $5 million agreement will be between the college and Western Pacific. Bushnell had first proposed providing the property as part of a housing development 13 years ago. Before state officials will allow construction of the second campus, the college must sustain an enrollment of at least the equivalent of 500 full-time students Full-Time Student A status that is important for determining dependency exemptions. An individual enrolled in a post-secondary institution may be eligible for certain tax breaks. Notes: The full-time status is based on what the individual's school considers full time. in Palmdale. The full-time equivalent Full-time equivalent (FTE) is a way to measure a worker's involvement in a project, or a student's enrollment at an educational institution. An FTE of 1.0 means that the person is equivalent to a full-time worker, while an FTE of 0.5 signals that the worker is only half-time. count stands at 114, said college spokesman Steve Standerfer. AVC (1) (Advanced Video Coding) The video compression techniques used in the H.264 standard, jointly developed by ISO and the ITU-T. See H.264. (2) (Audio Visual C now holds classes in part of a leased office building on Palmdale Boulevard. College officials said there is enough room at that site to build up to the 500 full-time equivalent threshold. Jim Skeen, (661) 267-5743 james.skeen(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): map Map: Proposed Antelope Valley College Palmdale Campus |
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