Santa Clarita City Council Notes
Shelved for now is the renaming of Newhall’s Railroad Avenue and San Fernando Road from 11th Street to Magic Mountain Parkway as Bouquet Canyon Road. The council cites asking for more input from local business owners and residents.
Voting unanimously the council opposed the planned Las Lomas development that [...]
Entries from November 2007
City says NO to Los Lomas
November 14th, 2007 · No Comments
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Antonovich- opposition to the Las Lomas project
November 14th, 2007 · No Comments
County Supervisor Michael D. Antonovich is continuing his opposition to the Las Lomas project. Back in August, the builder, in an attempt to skirt the City of Santa Clarita had taken his plans to the City of Los Angeles in hopes of getting approval for the massive 5,600 slated new homes they want [...]
Tags: Santa Clarita
Acton Residents Protest Development
November 13th, 2007 · No Comments
The residents in the town of Acton are facing a proposed development of four buildings housing at least five restaurants on two acres at Crown Valley and Antelope Woods roads. Acton remains a quiet village about 50 miles North of the City of Los Angeles with just over 9,000 residents. Acton residents admit they [...]
Tags: Santa Clarita
No Charges in Buckweed Fire
November 13th, 2007 · No Comments
It was reported here today that the boy who started the Buckweed Fire will not be charged. The fire burned 38,000 acres and destroyed 21 homes. The Los Angeles County District Attorney will not file charges however has referred the "matter" to Department of Children and Family Services, “to determine if other intervention is [...]
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The Toilet House
November 12th, 2007 · No Comments
When you bring your work home with you…
This house and it’s unique design is the work of Sim Jae-duck, get ready - he is the chairman of the organizing committee of the Inaugural General Assembly of the World Toilet Association. No Joke!
Tags: Weird News
Newhall Tunnel Work
November 12th, 2007 · No Comments
The Newhall Pass tunnel is expected to reopen by Thanksgiving weekend or possibly earlier, it was reported Tuesday. Work began this week on the two-lane truck bypass tunnel where 30 big rigs and one car exploded in a raging fire, three people died inside the tunnel earlier this month Oct. 12. The fire within [...]
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Foreclosure Fallout for Neighbors
November 11th, 2007 · 1 Comment
What gets left behind when home owners facing foreclosure choose to walk away from their homes? Green pools, broken windows and overgrown landscape. In recent months increasing numbers of homeowners have been forced into foreclosure, some owners trash their homes before they are repossessed. Reports are circulating that owners are stripping anything and everything [...]
Tags: California
Vasquez Bridge Open
November 11th, 2007 · No Comments
It was reported here on Sunday Novemebr 11, 2007, the Bouquet Canyon bridge has been repaired and is now open to thru traffic. The bridge was destroyed in the Buckweed fire which started in acton on Sunday October 21 and quickly cut a fire blaze down to Canyon Country. The bridge is at Vasquez [...]
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Countrywide CEO in the news
November 11th, 2007 · 1 Comment
The Buyers Made Us do It.
Angelo Mozilo is quoted as saying Countrywide Financial has done nothing wrong, and he’s done nothing wrong. In a article today in The New York Times states "To this day, he says his beleaguered company did nothing wrong during the loose-lending craze that is now unraveling nationwide with record foreclosures [...]
Tags: Housing and Mortgage
Veterans Memorial Plaza, Newhall California
November 10th, 2007 · No Comments
Photo of fountain at Veterans Memorial Park, Newhall California.
If you are in the downtown Newhall area and have time, take a minute to visit this Memorial Park, it is a beautiful spot to remember those who gave some and those who gave all, our United States Veterans
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