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Santa Clarita City Council members recently approved a draft of the Soledad Canyon Road Corridor Plan and are expected to give it one more look before the plan becomes set in stone.
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The corridor plan spans 181 acres and more than 70 different businesses, said Mike Marshall, assistant planner II for the city of Santa Clarita. The plan will come before the council one more time on Jan. 27. If approved, it will take effect after 30 days.
The Soledad Canyon Road Corridor begins at the Santa Clara River near Camp Plenty Road and east of Solamint Road, he said.
Illustration for the Soledad Canyon Road Corridor Plan. Photo courtesy of the city of Santa Clarita.
Santa Clarita City Council members approved the plan 4-1 last Tuesday with Councilmember TimBen Boydston being the lone vote against the approval.
“I think that the corridor plan has a lot of excellent elements and is a great plan in regard to architecture,” Boydston said, “but it doesn’t do any studies to look at how the additional building of commercial space or residential space would affect traffic. It doesn’t address what that would do to the traffic on Soledad Canyon. We need to conduct more in depth traffic studies to see how the plan could affect traffic on the busy road.”
City officials have conducted traffic studies in the past, Boydston said. Officials used traffic
Illustration for the Soledad Canyon Road Corridor Plan. Photo courtesy of the city of Santa Clarita.
averaging for a city-wide study.
“Most people are not concerned about the traffic at 2 -3 a.m. They’re concern is at rush hour, evenings and weekends,” Boydston said. “I think think we need to step up and study what the traffic at peak hours is now and is going to be when the plan is approved.”
If the Soledad Canyon Road Corridor Plan is approved, it will be the second corridor plan implemented by city council members. The first corridor plan implemented by city of Santa Clarita officials was the Lyons Corridor Plan in 2013, according to the city’s website.
“The city is really excited. What the plan does is establish the corridor and gives an opportunity to improve visual esthetic,” Marshall said. “The community and city work together for new standards.”
For more information about the Soledad Canyon Road Corridor Plan, visit the website or read the most recent draft.
Photo courtesy of the city of Santa Clarita.
Soledad cannot handle the traffic it already has. We don’t need more growth and cars. We need safe roads, better flow of over congested main arteries, more trails and larger schools. The more growth the more homeless come. Have you noticed the homeless camp on the Santa Clara river behind Big O Tires? That’s what you get when you have too much growth. And stop leveling the mountains! We are starting to look like concrete city. Don’t make Santa Clarita look like the SFValley!