Santa Clarita Real Estate

Mapping at left shows approximate area of the proposed City of Newhall Ranch expected to grow to a mini metropolis of 21,000 homes at build-out. City planner promise fire, law enforcement and schools to be added as homes are added. 

The final Environmental Impact Report for Landmark Village was unanimously approved by the County Regional Planning Commission, despite protests and testimony from local environmentalists and residents. 

At issue is water and other natural resources. Lynne Plambeck, president of the Santa Clarita Organization for Planning and the Environment, raised concerns whether there would be sufficent water for the planned community of Newhall Land expected to have more than 2100 single family homes, apartments and condos, retail, school’s, parks and other services are also slated for the area. At build-out the entire City of Newhall Ranch would have as many as 21,000 housing units adding 70,00 people to the area.

Opponents of the project state the would two of L.A. County’s Significant Ecological Areas, the Santa Clara River (see below) and the Santa Susana Mountains. In the proposed plan, village centers and residential subdivisions would line the river corridor, cutting off the natural transition zone from the Santa Clara river to surrounding upland and produce numerous degrading "edge effects" on the river’s woodlands. Envirornmentalist’s have blasted the plan as the narrow river corridor and its woodlands need much more buffering from urban encroachment than is provided in Newhall’s Plan.

The Santa Clara River flows approximately 100 miles from its headwaters near Acton, California, to the Pacific Ocean, and is one of only two natural river systems remaining in Southern California. The Santa Clara River was selected by American Rivers as one of the nation’s ten most endangered rivers for 2005. ecologic threats to the river include urban development, channelization, oil spills, stormwater runoff pollution, and the possible resumption of large-scale aggregate mining in the channel.

Map courtesy of Los Angeles County Planning