PANEL APPROVES NEW DEVELOPMENT NEAR QUARTZ HILL WATER RUNOFF CONCERNS ADDRESSED.Byline: Jim Skeen Staff Writer LANCASTER - Lancaster planning commissioners have approved a 72-lot housing development that residents in neighboring Quartz Hill fear will add to more water running down their streets during storms. The planning commission Noun 1. planning commission - a commission delegated to propose plans for future activities and developments commission, committee - a special group delegated to consider some matter; "a committee is a group that keeps minutes and loses hours" - Milton Berle approved the project proposed by Olympus Development on 40.5 acres of what is now desert east of 45th Street West at Avenue M-8. The project was approved Monday night by a 4-1 vote, with commissioner Ron Smith Ron Smith may refer to:
In response to concerns about water runoff, the commission added a requirement that new homes will not be certified for occupancy until paving, sidewalks and gutters are finished along 45th Street West. Members of the Quartz Hill Town Council want the project delayed, stating that street work for a storm drain storm drain n. 1. A storm sewer. 2. A catch basin. beneath 45th Street West and a spillway spillway, n a channel or passageway through which food escapes from the occlusal surfaces of the teeth during mastication. The occlusal, developmental, and supplemental grooves, as well as the incisal, occlusal, labial, buccal, and lingual embrasures, for a recently enlarged storm water catch basin catch basin n. 1. A receptacle at the entrance to a sewer designed to keep out large or obstructive matter. 2. A reservoir for collecting surface drainage or runoff. serving a neighboring new tract should be completed first. ``Let's get one problem fixed before we start another project,'' said Ed Frommer, president of the Quartz Hill Town Council. ``The bottom line is the people of Quartz Hill are sick of the water coming in from Palmdale and Lancaster.'' The developer of the first tract, Forecast Homes, anticipates completing the street work in two or three weeks. Despite its name, the community of Quartz Hill is downhill from Palmdale's Rancho Vista area and from part of west Lancaster. It has no storm drains, meaning that water from the neighboring areas runs along Quartz Hill streets - and in heavy rains, tops curbs and floods buildings, despite routine sandbagging Sandbagging is the practice of deceptively portraying oneself as being in a weaker position than is true.
The enlarged retention basin has failed in the past, adding more water to rain runoff. Jim Skeen, (661) 267-5743 james.skeen(at)dailynews.com |
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