CONTROVERSIAL SCHOOL SITE OK'D.Byline: Amy Raisin Staff Writer CALABASAS - After postponing a decision for weeks while they considered testimony, the Las Virgenes Unified School District Las Virgenes Unified School District (LVUSD) is a K-12 school district in north-west Los Angeles County, USA consisting of 14 public schools in the cities of Agoura Hills, Calabasas, Westlake Village, and several small portions of the West Hills section of Los Angeles. board voted unanimously Tuesday to approve a controversial site for a new middle school. ``I am very sorry that the EIR EIR n. popular acronym for environmental impact report, required by many states as part of the application to a county or city for approval of a land development or project. (See: environmental impact report) process . . . has created such a contentious situation,'' said board President Charlotte Meyer, referring to the environmental impact report that the board certified board certified, adj the status of a dental specialist such as an orthodontist who has become a board diplomate by successfully completing the certification program of the recognized certification board in that area of practice. with its vote. ``Opening a new school should be a happy event, it should be welcomed with open arms,'' Meyer added just before she cast the final vote, which will allow construction at the Hellman site, a 31-acre plot of land that critics fear is geologically unstable. Located at Mulholland Highway and Paul Revere Revere, city (1990 pop. 42,786), Suffolk co., E Mass., a residential suburb of Boston, on Massachusetts Bay; settled c.1630, set off from Chelsea and named for Paul Revere 1871, inc. as a city 1914. Drive, the site is examined extensively in the final environmental impact report, which addresses issues of land stability, pedestrian safety, traffic and noise impacts. With Tuesday's certification at Calabasas High School Calabasas High School is a four-year high school, freshman-senior, in Calabasas, California, United States. Calabasas High School, which serves portions of Calabasas and the West Hills, Los Angeles, California section of Los Angeles, is one of three high schools in the Las , attended by more than 100 people, some threatened a lawsuit against the board. ``It's a terrible shame because we made every effort to avoid this,'' said Larry Iser, an attorney and founder of the anti-Hellman group called Concerned Citizens of Calabasas. ``(The district) essentially shut us out of the process.'' While nearly everyone agrees that a new middle school is needed to ease the overcrowding overcrowding overcrowding of animal accommodation. Many countries now publish codes of practice which define what the appropriate volumetric allowances should be for each species of animal when they are housed indoors. Breaches of these codes is overcrowding. at A.E. Wright Middle School, the proposal to erect the school on the Hellman site polarized A one-way direction of a signal or the molecules within a material pointing in one direction. the community. Before the vote, authorities on geology, traffic engineering and architecture addressed concerns at the meeting for 90 minutes. All who spoke said that, based on research and testing, they were in favor of the Hellman site. ``The geological formation of the Hellman site is the same one we're standing on right now,'' said Rudy Pacal, principal geotechnical engineer at Gorian and Associates Inc. His colleague, Scott Simmons, an engineering geologist, put his finding simply: ``From a geological standpoint, there's no reason why the site can't be developed as a school site.'' |
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