NEWHALL LAND PLANS DETAIL FULL-SERVICE TOWN IN 25 YEARS.Byline: ALEX DOBUZINSKIS Staff Writer NEWHALL RANCH -- When the planned Newhall Ranch development is built, more than just thousands of new homes will rise from the graded earth. During the 25 years that it will take to build the 21,000-home project, the developer will build schools, roads, bridges, parks, sewer lines and more, and hand all those things over to government entities. Proponents of the massive project say the developer, 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. , has approached the project the same way it planned development of Valencia. The master-plan approach works, they say. ``If you go into the San Fernando Valley San Fernando Valley Valley, southern California, U.S. Northwest of central Los Angeles, the valley is bounded by the San Gabriel, Santa Susana, and Santa Monica mountains and the Simi Hills. , you can see where you take development and you're doing bits and pieces at a time, where it doesn't flow, it doesn't fit,'' said 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, City Councilman Bob Kellar, who works in real estate. But Valencia, which in some ways is a model for the Newhall Ranch project, is different, Kellar said. ``The community flows, it makes sense,'' he said. ``You have industrial where industrial needs to be; you have commercial where commercial needs to be. .... You have a buffer zone buffer zone n. A neutral area between hostile or belligerent forces that serves to prevent conflict. Noun 1. buffer zone that exists (around) those elements, which are critical for our quality of life.'' Newhall Land released the environmental impact report last month for the first phase of the project, the 1,400-home Landmark Village. The county Regional Planning regional planning: see city planning. Commission is slated to consider the Landmark Village proposal in January. Landmark Village will have a school and a park. As part of the entire Newhall Ranch project, the developer will build or fund the construction of at least two fire stations, a sheriff's station, a library, up to three big parks, five elementary schools, a junior high and a high school. ``We're building an entire community, not just a neighborhood,'' said Marlee Lauffer, a spokeswoman for Newhall Land. The plan also calls for building three bridges over the Santa Clara River Santa Clara River may refer to:
The Newhall Ranch project will also have commercial, office and industrial space to provide jobs -- which officials and Newhall Land hope will be filled by residents of the housing development. When the county Board of Supervisors The examples and perspective in this article or section may represent an unduly geographically limited view of the subject. Please [ improve this article] or discuss the issue on the talk page. The Board of Supervisors is the body governing counties in the U.S. approved the Newhall Ranch project in 2003, critics charged that the project wouldn't provide enough jobs for residents. A jobs-housing balance is crucial for the area, because local freeways to Los Angeles already are gridlocked grid·lock n. 1. A traffic jam in which no vehicular movement is possible, especially one caused by the blockage of key intersections within a grid of streets. 2. during commuter hours. alex.dobuzinskis@dailynews.com (661) 257-5253 |
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