PANEL TOURS RIVERPARK CONSTRUCTION AWAITS REPORT.Byline: Susan Abram Staff Writer SAUGUS - The city's 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 got its first glimpse First Glimpse is a monthly consumer electronics magazine published by Sandhills Publishing Company in Lincoln, Nebraska, USA. The magazine was known as CE Lifestyles before a name change in early 2006. of the massive Riverpark project Tuesday, touring canyons and driving up steep dirt roads where more than 1,100 homes and apartments are planned and where Newhall Ranch Road will be linked to Golden Valley Road. Construction on the project is expected to begin in 2005, pending a review of an environmental report, to be released this month, as well as approval by 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, City Council, expected at the end of the year, officials said. Located in the heart of the city known locally as the Panhandle and surrounded on all sides by established neighborhoods, Riverpark also would include 300 acres of open space that would act as a buffer between the Santa Clara River Santa Clara River may refer to:
``It's really a more conventional project compared to others,'' said Vince Bertoni, the city's interim director of planning and building services. ``We've done a lot of larger projects than this.'' Plans to develop the land include grading back canyons by 40 to 50 feet. The property includes more than 80 oak trees. Of the 15 that would be removed, 13 would be relocated, city planners said. A draft of the environmental impact report, compiled by the Agoura Hills-based Impact Services firm, is expected to include information on any archaeological artifacts artifacts see specimen artifacts. left by the Chumash tribe of American Indians American Indians: see Americas, antiquity and prehistory of the; Natives, Middle American; Natives, North American; Natives, South American. , who once settled along the Santa Clara River. Some residents who attended the afternoon tour expressed some concern about the project's density. ``I think residents don't know Don't know (DK, DKed) "Don't know the trade." A Street expression used whenever one party lacks knowledge of a trade or receives conflicting instructions from the other party. too much about it,'' said a woman who said she had lived in Santa Clarita for 32 years but did not wish to give her name. ``Where are all the people who are going to live here going to shop? Where are they going to drive in and out of? We're losing all of our open space.'' Susan Abram, (661) 257-5257 susan.abram(at)dailynews.com CAPTION(S): photo Photo: Fred Follstad, senior planner for Santa Clarita, shows the property where the Riverpark development would be built. David R. Crane/Staff Photographer |
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