NCWD TO REVISIT LAS LOMAS CITY LEADERS HOPE TO BLOCK 5,800-HOME NEWHALL PASS DEVELOPMENT.Byline: Heather MacDonald 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, - At the request of city officials, the Newhall County Water District board has agreed to reconsider whether it has enough water to serve a 5,800-home development planned in the Newhall Pass Newhall Pass is a mountain pass in Los Angeles County, California, USA. Historically called San Fernando Pass and Fremont Pass, it separates the Santa Susana Mountains from the San Gabriel Mountains. . At its Thursday night meeting, the five-member board directed General Manager Kenneth Petersen to meet with city officials to discuss the Las Lomas Las Lomas may refer to:
``In the spirit of cooperation with the city, we decided to put off the decision,'' said board President Randall Pfiester. The small agency does not have enough water to serve the development, which includes a 2.3-million-square-foot high-tech business park, a 300-room hotel and a shopping center shopping center, a concentration of retail, service, and entertainment enterprises designed to serve the surrounding region. The modern shopping center differs from its antecedents—bazaars and marketplaces—in that the shops are usually amalgamated into , 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. an NCWD NCWD North Carolina Western District (US federal court system) NCWD National Center for Women Development (Nigeria) assessment. If finalized, that determination would bolster developer Dan S. Palmer Jr.'s bid to have the project annexed to Los Angeles in order to have access to reliable utilities through that city's Department of Water and Power, which has confirmed that it can supply the project. The issue will be back before the board on April 2, one week before its final water supply assessment must be submitted to the city of Los Angeles
The projected water demand for the project, which has been condemned by both the city of Santa Clarita and Los Angeles County but touted as a charming small town by Palmer, was not included in the Santa Clarita Valley's Urban Water Management Plan. City officials contend the project's 15,000 residents would get much more effective civic services and police protection from the city of Santa Clarita, rather than Los Angeles City Hall, which is about 30 miles away. The Los Angeles Local Agency Formation Commission, which handles annexations in Los Angeles County, has two competing applications for the same property - one from the city of Santa Clarita and the other from Palmer. Neither application is complete, officials said. Environmentalists also have condemned the 555-acre project, saying it would cause a myriad of problems - including more freeway congestion The condition of a network when there is not enough bandwidth to support the current traffic load. congestion - When the offered load of a data communication path exceeds the capacity. and the loss of the open space that separates the Santa Clarita and San Fernando valleys - and it would sever the last remaining wildlife corridor to link the San Gabriel, Santa Susana and the coastal Santa Monica mountain ranges. Los Angeles County officials have called Las Lomas - Spanish for ``the hills'' - inappropriate for the steep topography of the site. |
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