JUDGE AGREES TO HEAR 2ND SUIT ON WOODRIDGE DEVELOPMENT'S IMPACT.Byline: Lisa Mascaro Daily News Staff Writer A Superior Court judge took under submission Tuesday an environmental group's lawsuit over the Woodridge housing development that claims the city failed to include adequate information about the project's impact on local schools. Judge Barbara A. Lane is expected to rule in a couple of weeks on Save Open Space's first petition in the suit, which calls for a revision of the environmental review of the 252-home development between Thousand Oaks Thousand Oaks, residential city (1990 pop. 104,352), Ventura co., S Calif., in a farm area; inc. 1964. Avocados, citrus, vegetables, strawberries, and nursery products are grown. and Simi Valley Simi Valley (sē`mē, sĭm`ē), city (1990 pop. 100,217), Ventura co., SW Calif. in an oil, fruit, and farm region; laid out 1887, inc. 1969. . ``I don't think people were aware of the problems with the school district,'' said SOS SOS, code letters of the international distress signal. The signal is expressed in International Morse code as … — — — … (three dots, three dashes, three dots). attorney Rosemary rosemary [ultimately from Lat.,=dew of the sea], widely cultivated evergreen and shrubby perennial (Rosmarinus officinalis) of the family Labiatae (mint family), fairly hardy and native to the Mediterranean region. It has small light-blue flowers. Woodlock. ``All of a sudden there's a whole lot of issues. This is why the California Environmental Quality Act The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) is a California law (California Public Resources Code section 21000 et seq.) passed in 1970, shortly after the Federal Government passed the National Environmental Policy Act. says you have to discuss the cumulative impact, long-term impact.'' In a separate hearing Tuesday, Lane dismissed a challenge of a second suit filed by SOS that also calls into question the environmental review, allowing that lawsuit to proceed, said Woodlock. At issue in the suit taken under submission Tuesday is whether an environmental review of the project put forward by the developers and approved by the City Council provided adequate information about the impact on the school district. The city, however, has maintained that the review was adequate. Ed Casey Ed Casey (2 January, 1933 - May 1, 2006) was best known as a former leader of the Australian Labor Party in Queensland between 1978 and 1982. He also served as Primary Industries Minister in the government of Wayne Goss between 1989 and 1995. , the attorney representing developer Woodridge Associates, said in making her ruling, the judge did not go into the merits of the defense's arguments in the case. ``She will get to them in very short order in the context of another hearing, and then, I think our defenses will prevail,'' he said. The City Attorney's Office could not be reached for comment Tuesday. SOS claims that the city failed to require sufficient information from the school district when it approved the review. The development had raised concerns in the Conejo Valley Unified School District Conejo Valley Unified School District or CVUSD is a school district in Ventura County. It serves Thousand Oaks, California and its subsections Newbury Park and Westlake Village. when officials were holding seats for Woodridge students at Lang Ranch Elementary School elementary school: see school. . After parents from the area protested having to send their children out of the neighborhood to other schools, the policy changed so that Woodridge students would be sent to surrounding campuses and neighborhood children would remain at Lang Ranch. School officials have maintained there would be room for the Woodridge children at other schools, including Ladera or Park Oaks. CAPTION(S): Map MAP: Woodridge development |
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