VENTURA COUNTY TO FOCUS ON NEWHALL RANCH.Byline: Christopher Noxon Daily News Staff Writer Planners in Ventura County will attempt to clear the air today over the Newhall Ranch project, a proposed mega-tract that officials fear will send smog and dust flowing over the county line. Planned for 12,000 acres in Los Angeles Los Angeles (lôs ăn`jələs, lŏs, ăn`jəlēz'), city (1990 pop. 3,485,398), seat of Los Angeles co., S Calif.; inc. 1850. County west of the Golden State Freeway The Golden State Freeway is a north-south freeway running through Kern County and Los Angeles County, California. Originally built as U.S. Highway 99, it was re-signed as Interstate 5 in 1964. , the project could generate enough emissions to cloud the air and damage crops across the Santa Clara River Valley The Santa Clara River Valley is a rural region of eastern Ventura County, California and northwest Los Angeles County, California that is named for the Santa Clara River which winds through the valley before emptying into the Pacific Ocean between the cities of Oxnard and Ventura. , officials said Wednesday. The developer's environmental report, currently under review by the Los Angeles County Regional Planning regional planning: see city planning. Commission, ignores air quality in Ventura, said district planner Chuck Thomas Chuck Thomas (born July 30, 1980 in Birmingham, England) is an English television presenter and producer. He recently presented and produced the late night ITV1 interactive gameshow, Quizmania, which he created with Debbie King and Simone Thorogood. . ``They didn't acknowledge that the project would affect Ventura County at all,'' he said. But officials from Newhall Ranch said Wednesday that their 50-pound, 3-foot-high environmental report adequately covers the topic of air quality to the west. ``The environmental impact report does fully address air quality for the region based on federal and state standards,'' said Newhall Land and Farming Co. spokeswoman Marlee Lauffer. ``We fully analyzed all impacts associated with this project.'' The planners and residents will appear today at a public hearing on the project before the Los Angeles County Regional Planning Commission. The panel is accepting public comment on the project until Feb. 11. Less a housing tract than a city built from scratch, the project includes 25,000 homes, business parks and schools, rivaling a city the size of Camarillo. Thomas said construction alone, which could take 25 years to complete, is bound to impact air quality in Ventura. ``We 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. the exact degree, but it's an extremely large project,'' Thomas said. ``The wind blows back and forth up and down the Santa Clara River Valley, so the emissions will blow into Ventura County.'' The report from Ventura planners is the second since 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. pledged $79,000 toward planning and legal costs to scrutinize the project. Last month, transportation analysts reported that they believe the development will send 15,480 car trips to Ventura County every day, about 7,740 fewer than the number predicted by the developers. |
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