LANCASTER OKS FOX FIELD DEVELOPMENT : INDUSTRY ENVISIONED NEAR AIRPORT.Byline: Jim Skeen Daily News Staff Writer Vacant desert around Fox Field would be turned into a manufacturing and industrial zone and at the same time provide the airfield with a buffer from housing tracts under a new city plan. The Fox Field Industrial Corridor plan was approved by a 3-2 vote Monday night, with council members Deborah Shelton Deborah Shelton (born November 21, 1948) is an American beauty queen and actress. Shelton first won the Miss Virginia USA title and was subsequently crowned Miss USA in May 1970. and Michael Singer dissenting. The specific plan covers an area of about 8,000 acres between avenues E and H and 70th Street West and the Antelope Valley Freeway The Antelope Valley Freeway is a freeway in Los Angeles and Kern counties in southern California. It is signed as California State Highway 14 along its length. It connects Greater Los Angeles to the rapidly developing Antelope Valley. . The plan identifies an area of 1,800 acres where development is likely to occur first. That area is roughly between Fox Field and the freeway and Avenues H and F. ``I like the overall plan,'' said Councilman Jim Jeffra. ``It fits in with the General Plan (the city's guidelines for development). I specifically like the idea we're going to make that a user-friendly zone.'' The area identified as ``focused planning area,'' to be developed first, is filled with potential geological hazards, Singer said. The focused planning area is in a region where historically there has been subsidence subsidence, lowering of a portion of the earth's crust. The subsidence of land areas over time has resulted in submergence by shallow seas (see oceans). Land subsidence can occur naturally or through human activity. of more than five feet. The area is subjected to fissuring and there is significant swelling and shrinkage Shrinkage The amount by which inventory on hand is shorter than the amount of inventory recorded. Notes: The missing inventory could be due to theft, damage, or book keeping errors. of the soil, Singer said. ``This is going to be the home of our industry and manufacturing. This is where we are going to sink our money,'' Singer said. ``It's absolutely the worst place to build in Lancaster.'' The Fox Field Industrial Corridor is envisioned as a landscaped campus for manufacturing, light industrial and high-technology businesses, as well as a central location for professional and administrative offices, according to according to prep. 1. As stated or indicated by; on the authority of: according to historians. 2. In keeping with: according to instructions. 3. the plan. ``We believe it's better to have the region under some type of plan than to let it develop haphazardly,'' said Mayor Frank Roberts Frank Roberts may refer to:
Development of the Fox Field Industrial Corridor, as envisioned by Lancaster officials, would include parks, greenbelts and golf courses. The mix of green areas and businesses would provide a buffer for Fox Field from encroachment An illegal intrusion in a highway or navigable river, with or without obstruction. An encroachment upon a street or highway is a fixture, such as a wall or fence, which illegally intrudes into or invades the highway or encloses a portion of it, diminishing its width or area, but from residential housing. |
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