COUNTY APPROVES NEW MOVIE RANCH.Byline: Troy Anderson Staff Writer SAUGUS - The Board of Supervisors on Tuesday unanimously approved the 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, Valley's newest movie ranch A movie ranch is a ranch that is at least partially dedicated to being used as a site for the production of motion pictures. Movie ranches first came into use in southern California in the 1920s when westerns had become increasingly popular. , the Blue Cloud Movie Ranch owned by former child actor Rene Veluzat. Veluzat says the ranch will help stem runaway production  An editor has expressed concern that this article or section is .Please help improve the article by adding information and sources on neglected viewpoints, or by summarizing and by providing Hollywood with a new, versatile outdoor stage. At a zoning change hearing last month, residents who live near the 93-acre ranch at 29950 Blue Cloud Road told supervisors they were concerned about their safety because road improvements Veluzat made could lead to flooding. But 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 said Tuesday that the county reached an agreement with Veluzat to widen and pave portions of Blue Cloud Road to avoid flooding problems. ``We have reached an agreement and all the issues have been resolved,'' Antonovich said. Julie Moore, principal regional planning assistant, said the Department of Regional Planning held a meeting with Veluzat and his neighbors recently and reached an agreement to address neighbors' safety concerns. ``The county Fire Department indicated the road, when improved, will provide adequate all-weather access,'' Moore said. The movie ranch will include a rustic farmhouse and barn, a new Spanish villa and a major Army base complete with 25 Jeeps, five Huey helicopters and a tank. Newhall resident Veluzat, 59, started in the entertainment business in 1950 as a child actor on such television shows as ``Ozzie and Harriet Ozzie and Harriet depicting home life, American style. [TV: “The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet” in Terrace, I, 34–35] See : Domesticity Ozzie and Harriet series portraying the wholesome, American family. ,'' ``Leave It To Beaver'' and many Western series. As an actor and stuntman stunt·man n. A man who substitutes for a performer in scenes requiring physical daring or involving physical risk. stuntman n → especialista m stuntman , Veluzat doubled for Charles Bronson and Michael Burns in ``Wagon Train.'' In the late 1950s, Veluzat began building movie sets with his family and managed the Veluzat Movie Ranch in Saugus for a quarter-century. Popular television shows such as ``The A-Team'' and ``Dukes of Hazzard'' were filmed there. His brothers own Gene Autry's old Melody Ranch in Newhall. In 1995, Veluzat's father gave him a piece of property, which he turned into the 1950s-style ``Rene Town,'' the site of such productions as ``Clueless clue·less adj. Lacking understanding or knowledge. clueless Adjective Slang helpless or stupid Adj. 1. ,'' ``Very Mean Men'' and ``Devil's Prey.'' In 1998, Veluzat purchased the property in Saugus. |
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