Plans for a new city in the Santa Clarita Valley hit another roadblock (EnviroNazis)

LA Times ^ | November 30, 2015 | Maura Dolan, Louis Sahagun and Abby Sewell

[C19fan]

For two decades, the Newhall Land & Farming Co. has envisioned a new city rising in the foothills north of Los Angeles.

Situated on nearly 12,000 acres along the Santa Clara River, the planned community would house 58,000 people and offer stores, golf courses, schools and recreational centers. Los Angeles County’s elected supervisors approved the project 12 years ago, prompting experts to declare that the Santa Clarita Valley would soon be home to other major developments.

A mammoth, 5,828-page environmental impact report won court approval a year ago, and a Newhall official declared that the project had been vindicated.

But the plans hit a major roadblock Monday when the California Supreme Court rejected the environmental report, a decision that was expected to further delay the project — one justice said it might add years — but not kill it.

[C19fan]

The US population will keep on increasing due to immigration and their children yet due to environmental reasons, especially concerns about global warming, we will be prohibited from building the housing and infrastructure to house these people. I guess in the future we all be sardined canned into apartments.

[Blue Collar Christian]

I’m sure you know your guess IS the plan.

[SZonian]

Purportedly, there’s no water, traffic congestion is reaching epic proportions in this area, power grid is straining under the demand, saturation of retail stores in this area is approaching unsustainable levels, yet...CA keeps on building.

All for tax $$...tell me again why I should believe one word uttered from any level of government in CA?

[umgud]

The US population will keep on increasing due to immigration and their children yet due to environmental reasons,,,,,,,

This increase is made up of 3rd world people who won't be able to afford these houses.

[Rusty0604]

My daughter used to live in Santa Clarita and a family of four with an income of 65k per year qualified for assistance from taxpayers to pay for an apartment there.

[Michael.SF.]

The court said the environmental report failed to buttress its conclusion that the development would not significantly affect greenhouse gas emissions, which cause climate change. Also, the court said, it illegally allowed for the capture and relocation of the unarmored threespine stickleback, an endangered freshwater fish.<.>

How many of these bad boys have been lost just so some trophy hunter can hang them on the wall of their HO train set?

[umgud]

I lived there briefly in the early 70’s and it was over the top then.