FIRM SETTLES LEGAL FIGHT CLWA TO GET $856,667.Byline: Patricia Farrell Aidem Staff Writer 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, - The company that built the Robinson Ranch golf course community will pay the Castaic Lake Castaic Lake is a lake on Castaic Creek formed by Castaic Dam, in northwestern Los Angeles County, California, near the town of Castaic. The 323,700 acre foot lake (399,000,000 m³) is the terminus of the West Branch of the California Aqueduct, though some comes from the 154 mi² Water Agency $856,667 to settle a legal skirmish over water hookup hookup, n in the Trager method of therapy, the practitioner enters into a meditative state along with the patient, which allows him or her to work more intuitively and to feel subtle changes in the patient's movement and tissue texture. fees, the agency reported Thursday. The settlement, endorsed Wednesday night by the CLWA CLWA Chip-Level Weibull Analysis CLWA Children living with AIDS (Lancaster, OH) board, also calls for the CLWA's Santa Clarita Water Division to refund Newport Beach-based Robinson Ranch Associates $30,000, money the company overpaid o·ver·pay v. o·ver·paid , o·ver·pay·ing, o·ver·pays v.tr. 1. To pay (a party) too much. 2. To pay an amount in excess of (a sum due). v.intr. To pay too much. . The terms of the settlement end a two-year legal battle brought by the developer, CLWA spokeswoman Mary Lou Cotton said. Robinson Ranch had refused to pay full hook-up charges for its entire Canyon Country development - 72 homes, two 18-hole golf course and a club house. Ted Robinson Jr., a principal with the development company, wouldn't discuss the agreement other than to say the company is pleased with the results. CLWA General Manager Robert Sagehorn, who negotiated the settlement for the agency, was unavailable Thursday to provide details. Landowners are required to pay hookup fees to the agency if they develop their property, regardless of whether they rely on groundwater or the state water the agency manages for the Santa Clarita Valley The Santa Clarita Valley is the valley of the Santa Clara River in Southern California. It stretches through Los Angeles County and Ventura County. Its main population center is the city of Santa Clarita. The valley was part of the 48,612-acre (19,672. . Robinson sued, saying the company would use state water to serve the club house and homes, but did not want to pay the hookup fee for the golf courses because they would be irrigated with well water. In an earlier interview, Sagehorn said the water agency bases its fees on annual water need, regardless of the water source. That is to ensure that developers pay their share to expand water facilities and to guarantee water if wells run dry. |
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