SPEAKERS OVERFLOW AHMANSON RANCH HEARING.Byline: Cecilia Chan Staff Writer Deluged with speakers at Wednesday's public hearing on Ahmanson Ranch, a county committee plans to meet again next week to hear all of the comments. The Environmental Report Review Committee next Wednesday will hear testimony from 20 more speakers who had signed up, as well as rebuttal rebuttal n. evidence introduced to counter, disprove or contradict the opposition's evidence or a presumption, or responsive legal argument. from the developer, before deciding whether to accept any additional comments. Officially the comment period on the draft supplemental environmental impact report closed Wednesday. ``We intend to build this project,'' said attorney Steve Weston Steve Weston (1940 - May 12, 1985) was a Canadian television and theatre actor. He is best known to Canadian audiences from his stint as the husband in the sitcom The Trouble With Tracy, and as a series regular on the sketch comedy series Bizarre. , who represents Washington Mutual “WaMu” redirects here. For the Washington, DC radio station, see WAMU. Washington Mutual (or WaMu; NYSE: WM) is the United States' largest savings and loan association. , owner of the ranch in the southeast corner of Ventura County. ``Ahmanson Ranch is not for sale.'' A group calling itself Rally To Save Ahmanson Ranch wants Washington Mutual to sell the land rather than develop a new community there. The project had its supporters Wednesday, such as the Ventura County Hispanic Chamber of Commerce and the Santa Paula Chamber of Commerce. But most of about 40 speakers opposed the project that they said will cause water, air and traffic problems. Biologist Dan Holland, an expert on the red-legged frog, called the environmental report erroneous, inadequate and a misrepresentation misrepresentation In law, any false or misleading expression of fact, usually with the intent to deceive or defraud. It most commonly occurs in insurance and real-estate contracts. False advertising may also constitute misrepresentation. of the facts. ``This report ignores that the project will eliminate legally designated habitat for the frog,'' he said. Los Angeles County Supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky also opposed the development in a faxed statement. ``The Ahmanson Ranch development is an unmitigated un·mit·i·gat·ed adj. 1. Not diminished or moderated in intensity or severity; unrelieved: unmitigated suffering. 2. environmental disaster,'' he said. ``It is destructive of our natural terrain, impactive on our streets and highways, and threatening to endangered plants and wildlife. It is the wrong project in the wrong place.'' Although the project is proposed mainly in Ventura County, all access routes will be in Los Angeles city and county territory. Although an environmental impact report was approved in 1992, the committee is reviewing a supplemental one to account for changes since then - namely the discovery on the site of protected species: the California red-legged frog The California Red-legged frog (Rana aurora ) is a sub-species of frog within the family Ranidae also known as the "true frogs". It was earlier classified as a subspecies, Rana aurora draytonii and 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. Spineflower. The committee will make a recommendation on the supplemental report to the Ventura County Planning Commission and Board of Supervisors. |
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