NEW APPEAL FILED ON 2,300 HOMES SCOPE SAYS FURTHER REVIEW NEEDED.Byline: Daily News VALENCIA - An environmental group has appealed a January court ruling that allowed The Newhall Land and Farming Company The Newhall Land and Farming Company is a land management company based in Valencia, California, United States. The company is responsible for the master community planning of Valencia, as well as the management of farm land elsewhere in the state. to go ahead with its 2,300-home West Creek
West Creek is a tributary of Delaware Bay in Cape May County, New Jersey in the United States. development along the banks of San Francisquito Creek The San Francisquito Creek is a creek that flows into San Francisco Bay in California, United States of America. Its headwaters are in the Santa Cruz Mountains above Menlo Park, around 667m (2000 feet) above the Bay. . 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, Organization for Planning the Environment filed its appeal Wednesday, hoping to overturn a judge's determination that Newhall Land's revised environmental documents for the project were adequate. SCOPE President Lynne Plambeck said construction is planned in a floodplain floodplain, level land along the course of a river formed by the deposition of sediment during periodic floods. Floodplains contain such features as levees, backswamps, delta plains, and oxbow lakes. next to major tributaries. ``We don't think it's safe for the future residents, and it impacts our ability to have water recharge out of the streams and rivers,'' she said Monday. The creek is a tributary of the Santa Clara River Santa Clara River may refer to:
``If you lose all your recharge from paving over everything, you'll dry out the river,'' Plambeck said. ``We should all be taking care not only (of) the main river, but the tributaries.'' Plambeck's group sued Newhall Land in 1999 after the West Creek proposal was approved by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors is the five member governing board of Los Angeles County, California. Members of the board of supervisors are elected by district, the current members as of April 2006 are:
SCOPE lost initially, but won on appeal on one of four issues - documentation of the planned water supply, Newhall Land spokeswoman Marlee Lauffer said. She said the company produced additional studies in October, and a Superior Court judge ruled Jan. 12 that the analysis was appropriate. ``It's typical of Lynne Plambeck and SCOPE to try to use the legal process to delay new communities,'' Lauffer said. ``We're very confident that the court did a thorough and thoughtful review of all the issues and believe that (the judge's) ruling will hold up on appeal.'' Plambeck maintained that a final decision should be reviewed by a higher court, not just the Superior Court or trial court judge who originally had ruled in Newhall Land's favor. ``The trial court judge stated in the decision that this case is a matter of first impression,'' Plambeck said. ``He felt that there wasn't any legal precedent for the decision.'' |
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