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The City of Santa Clarita sent a notice of violation to the owners of the Canyon View Estates property in Canyon Country Monday, citing the owners for installing solar panels without permits.
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The city’s Community Preservation Division sent the notice after learning that the owners allegedly installed multiple solar panels on the hillsides “within and outside of the mobile home park,” city officials said.
The notice of violation directed the property owners to remove the solar panels. City officials did not specify in a statement the timeframe for removal or the punishment if the owners did not comply.
According to city officials, the owners did not obtain permits for the solar panels, and did not comply with the conditions of approval associated with the conditional use permit for the park.
Those conditions of approval require that 50 percent of the property be maintained as open space.
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According to the statement put out by the City of Santa Clarita, city staff have been working with the HCD and the County of Los Angeles to obtain and review file materials concerning the solar project as well as the conditional use permit, which was originally issued by the County.
The review indicated that Canyon View Estates should have sought additional entitlements from the city, and is in violation of the conditional use permit conditions of approval, they said.
“While the city supports efforts to move to renewable energy, the city takes seriously its responsibility to enforce conditions of approval designed to protect the quality of life in Santa Clarita, balancing the need for development with the preservation of open space,” officials said in the statement.
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State of California does not want local jurisdictions to impede affordable housing (Manufacted Homes). This is why Housing and CommunityDevelopment exists. Even MH units on private property can only be stopped by existing CCR’s (deed restrictions).
Photovoltaic installions should not be impeded. Requiring a Conditional Use Permit is normally only for Solar farms of ten acres or more. Older MH Parks have limited 50 amp services and cannot have air conditioning units without overloading the parks electrical capacity. With photovoltaic, assisting the parks electrical supply and new energy efficient units, it’s a great improvement. Also, most MH Parks have private metering. Utility company, SCE, DWP, PG&E, has no jurisdiction inside park.
They must have a HCD Permit for the Electrical and Building Permit for rack system.
Sounds like a jurisdictional pissing contest.
I would require all potential fire hazards mitigated. Like gravel under and 20’ around Solar Rack area.
I would also like to know who the contractor or whoever physically installed them illegally was.
Thank you City of Santa Clarita Community Preservation personnel for finally citing these arrogant folks who placed these huge ugly panels without permits. These illegally placed panels are a huge eyesore in our community and clearly visible from our major roadway, Soledad Canyon Road. Please allow no concessions, variances or excuses and make them remove these hideous things from our hillside so we are not forced to look at these ugly panels every single day! Canyon County is not the ugly step sister but a vibrant beautiful community that needs to be treated with respect by all of these rogue builders. We will not put up with this garbage!
Thank you for your comments you are !00% right.
Amen to that! This project Should Never have been allowed to get this far. It was a poke in the eye to the city and its residents!
Betty,
You said it all thank you for that.Now let’s get those disgusting panels down.
Hope it’s soon!
I bet these people complaining about the elegance of solar panels are the same who dont mind that much oil derrick or oil tankers in the bay of LA. What I find even funnier is that usually those are the same people who dress, act, and decorate their home without the even slightest good taste. They look like obese trash driving massive pick trucks all alone, with their 60 lbs over weight useless bodies. Mediocrity and anaesthetics choices are part of their life, their communities, the architecture of their cookie cutter suburbs, but yet, they are all so violently opposed to the view of deep blue PV panels. Get of the way dinosaurs. You are soon to be extinct. Let the young population make rational decision because you obviously can’t enjoy anything nice but a sweet cocktail on a golf course of a 5 star hotel in the middle of the desert.
Hello. It had been done you’re since this news article being released, yet the solar panels are still in Christian range. Ate they still in use? Ate they ordered or scheduled to be removed?