WATER REPORT REVIEW ON TAP INDUSTRIAL PARK'S GO-AHEAD AT STAKE.Byline: JUDY O'ROURKE Staff Writer 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, - The public hearing for a planned industrial park in Newhall that has been sidelined by lawsuits lodged by environmental groups will begin Tuesday. Planning commissioners will review a revised water supply report - ordered by the court - which says there is enough water to serve the development and the community. The 160-acre Needham Ranch business park is planned on Sierra Highway Sierra Highway is a road in Southern California, United States. It runs from Tunnel Station near the north limit of the City of Los Angeles, where it intersects with San Fernando Road and Foothill Boulevard, as well as Interstate 5, and continues north to Mojave, mostly paralleling , south of San Fernando Road San Fernando Road is a major street in the city and county of Los Angeles. It starts off in Castaic as The Old Road, passing through Santa Clarita and the Newhall Pass, where upon its intersection with Sierra Highway near the junction of the Golden State (I-5) and the , and would include light-industrial and commercial buildings nestled nes·tle v. nes·tled, nes·tling, nes·tles v.intr. 1. To settle snugly and comfortably: The cat nestled among the pillows. 2. on 580 acres. The Santa Clarita City Council approved the project in June 2003. An appeals court ruled in November in favor of environmental groups that sued the city and developer Mark Gates over environmental studies for the project. Appellate court A court having jurisdiction to review decisions of a trial-level or other lower court. An unsuccessful party in a lawsuit must file an appeal with an appellate court in order to have the decision reviewed. justices said a lower court had erred in approving the project's environmental impact report, calling a section describing water supply for the park inadequate. The revised water analysis cites the 2005 Urban Water Management Plan, which supersedes the 2000 report cited in the original environmental report for the project. The data in the original study prompted the environmental groups to sue. If the commissioners approve the project's final environmental report they would recommend the council do the same. Pending council approval, the matter would return to the lower court for review and a new ruling. A recycling recycling, the process of recovering and reusing waste products—from household use, manufacturing, agriculture, and business—and thereby reducing their burden on the environment. facility, approved by planning commissioners in October, is the first business approved for the complex. Its approval has been suspended pending the final decision on the water report. The city is relying on Burrtec Waste Industries' 178,200-square-foot-center - which could process up to 2,000 tons of material a day - to help meet a state mandate to divert 50 percent of trash from landfills. Planning commissioners will re-examine re·ex·am·ine also re-ex·am·ine tr.v. re·ex·am·ined, re·ex·am·in·ing, re·ex·am·ines 1. To examine again or anew; review. 2. Law To question (a witness) again after cross-examination. Burrtec's plans in September, and if the plans are re-approved, the company could proceed with the project shortly thereafter. judy.orourke(at)dailynews.com (661) 257-5255 |
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