CONSERVANCY TAKES AIM AT DEVELOPMENT.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 Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy The Santa Monica Mountains Conservancy is an agency of the state of California in the United States founded in 1979 and dedicated to the acquisition of land in the Santa Susana and Santa Monica Mountains and the Simi Hills, north and west of Los Angeles, for preservation as open is taking aim at a proposed housing development on the old Warner Bros BROS Brothers BROS Benefits and Retirement Operations Section (King County, Washington) BROS Barnes and Richmond Operatic Society (London, UK) . movie ranch, arguing it would encroach encroach v. to build a structure which is in whole or in part across the property line of another's real property. This may occur due to incorrect surveys, guesses or miscalculations by builders and/or owners when erecting a building. too much on nature. The project, planned in Lyons Canyon near Calgrove Boulevard and The Old Road, would include 190 units of housing, mixing in senior housing with single-family homes. It's been in the planning stages for years, and the conservancy has criticized aspects of the project before. Now, as the developer prepares to bring the plan for a hearing at the county Department of Regional Planning, the conservancy is arguing that the development should be scaled back to 126 units. And the conservancy wants planned development brought closer to The Old Road, moving it away from nature. Otherwise, the conservancy argues, such wildlife as mountain lions, bobcats, deer and black bears will lose valuable roaming ground. ``The Santa Susana Mountains The Santa Susana Mountains are a transverse range of mountains in southern California, north of the city of Los Angeles, in the United States. The range runs east-west separating the San Fernando Valley and Simi Valley on its south from Santa Clara River Valley to the north and are only so big,'' said Paul Edelman, deputy director of natural resources and planning for the conservancy. ``And every time you take a big chunk out of them of this order of magnitude A change in quantity or volume as measured by the decimal point. For example, from tens to hundreds is one order of magnitude. Tens to thousands is two orders of magnitude; tens to millions is three orders of magnitude, etc. , the whole capacity of that mountain range for sustaining wildlife is diminished.'' The project would be off The Old Road in the Stevenson Ranch area, and would be partly built on an area Warner Bros. once used as a ranch to film western movies. It is being developed by D.R. Horton. A representative from the company could not be reached for comment. ``The original proposal was a large, much larger development which frankly the county found unacceptable,'' said Bob Haueter, an aide to 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 . ``It required taking out too many oak trees; it was too dense a project for that area.'' A Department of Regional Planning hearing on the revised project is expected to happen this month. The conservancy sent a letter to Regional Planning last month, asking for a scaled-back project. alex.dobuzinskis(at)dailynews.com (661) 257-5253 |
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