Santa Clarita Real Estate

The Signal reported here today that the Las Lomas project parent company Palmer Investments has been attempting to develop land - part of which he has no legal ownership in. This new information will provide a huge breakthrough for the City of Santa Clarita, the City of Los Angeles and the County of Los Angeles to hopefully kick this proposed development to the curb.

Los Lomas has been trying for about 10 years to get approval for the mini city, for background information on the Los Lomas Project. The Signal found McHaddad among land records that show he owns 251 acres of the 555 acres of land off The Old Road that Palmer has been referring to publicly as Las Lomas for more than six years. In a zoning and subdivision application obtained by The Signal, submitted to the Los Angeles County Department of Regional Planning and dated Dec. 10, 2003, Las Lomas Land Company LLC is listed as the owner of the 555 acres earmarked for the project.

Who really owns the other parcels? Van Nuys resident Fred McHaddad owns nearly half of the site, and though he told company president Dan S. Palmer Jr. he will have an option to buy the land, there’s been no sale yet. So now Mr. McHaddad fears he may lose his property. McHaddad signed an agreement with Palmer, empowering the developer to obtain permits and entitlements and bids for annexation to develop the property. While Mr. McHaddad offered Palmer an option to purchase the land, no sale was ever recorded.

Apparently Mr. McHaddad had no knowledge of the ongoing battle Palmer Investments has created with the proposed development. In a phone call a phone call from Ramon Cordova of the county Department of Regional Planning, Mr. McHaddad expressed his dissatisfaction with Palmer stating Palmer never returns his calls or e-mails. Quoting The Signal, "He also started crying when I talked to him," Cordova told The Signal on Thursday. "You always want to make sure you’re dealing with the current owners. We want to make sure we have all the property owners," he said, explaining that he called McHaddad when he began reviewing a Tentative Parcel Map submitted by the Las Lomas Land Co. in November. The county has also found 3 additional parcel onwers of land inside the  Los Lomas project and is attempting to locate those onwers to inquire if they had given consent for the public hearings and proposed changes.

Tentative Parcel Map No.060792 is now off the calendar.