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Court Ruling Affirms Newhall Ranch Home Development

Ed. Note: The following is a news release provided by Newhall Land. 

A California Appellate Court ruling has affirmed the environmental review and approval of Landmark Village, part of Newhall Land’s proposed Newhall Ranch community of 20,000 homes, officials said Wednesday.


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A three-justice panel of the California Second Appellate District unanimously supported a February 2013 ruling by the Los Angeles Superior Court that affirmed the development project’s Environmental Impact Report, and other land use permits,  as approved by the County of Los Angeles in late 2011. The court acted on a lawsuit brought against the County by Sierra Club, Center for Biological Diversity, SCOPE and other environmental groups.

The appellate court’s 44 page opinion concurs with the earlier ruling by the trial court and fully validates the EIR, finding that the County of Los Angeles –which was the lead government agency that conducted the environmental review–had acted appropriately and with substantial evidence to approve the detailed document and its related mitigation measures.

“The appellate decision fully supports the Superior Court ruling and validates the several years of environmental review undertaken by the County of Los Angeles regarding Landmark Village,” said Marlee Lauffer, Newhall Land spokeswoman. “We had great confidence in the diligence the County took to certify the EIR.”

“As an owner of a company that is building master planned communities in California, we value our partnership with the County of Los Angeles,” said Emile Haddad, President and CEO of Five Point Communities, the development manager for Newhall Land. “Today, the exhaustive review of the County was affirmed by the Appellate Court to have been completed properly. We are thankful for their efforts and look forward to implementing the plans for Landmark Village.”

Landmark Village is located south of Highway 126 and includes a mixed use office and retail center, an elementary school, 2 miles of river trails and about 1,400 homes. It is part of Newhall Ranch’s Specific Plan which has undergone over 15 years of environmental reviews by the County, state and federal agencies. At build out, Newhall Ranch related villages will bring over 80,000 permanent jobs to the region and over 47,000 development related jobs. The Plan also calls for over 10,000 acres open space, 60 miles of trails, several public schools and community infrastructure including a water reclamation plant, fire stations, library and sheriff station.

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Court Ruling Affirms Newhall Ranch Home Development

10 comments

  1. It’s irresponsible for New Hall Land to build such a project. The area is becoming over populated, crime is increasing and the infrastructure can’t handle it. Where is the water going to come from for all of these new people?

    Castaic needs a high school to handle the overcrowding at the Valencia schools and development needs to stop.

    • I agree it seems like our water woes are no concern to the courts and Newhall Land. It is not as if California’s drought is new. Maybe all new construction should be contingent upon a contribution to a fund to build a water reclemation and desalination plants in California.

      • We’re more than fine with water. Stop watching local news and taking 2 min showers. Nothing has changed other than the change of hands with money in Sacramento. Think back when times were “good” with water 8 yrs ago and there was a big push to save water and cut back. Well fast forward to now and people have saved too much water and the water companies are unable to fund their basic needs. Now this man made disaster with water this year is based on the same thing with one small change. Gov Brown. By the way people check your new water bill. There’s tiers. Courts said its illegal and our city is doing it anyways. As for the courts… All the lib dems are getting what they asked for.

  2. Well, this certainly was no surprise from the same Court that found there was no significant impact from the pollution generated by the 357,000 car trips per day that will be added by Newhall Ranch. No wonder the CA Supreme Court called up this Court’s last ruling. Looks like we have a Court focused on protecting Newhall and the hedge funds that own them instead of following the law and protecting the public. All the cases involving Newhall Ranch have been assigned to this one Division that always rules for them and against the public.
    This Court division further attempts to deprive the public of the ability to petition the Supreme Court by not publishing their Decision. It is obvious that they know it is wrong and want it only to enable the Newhall Ranch project to move forward. It is especially ironic that the decision was released on earth day, showing once again how little our regional government cares about addressing the huge problems facing our society today in the form of lack of water and climate change.

  3. This is all fine and good, but where are we going to get WATER????????????????

  4. 15 years of reviews. Everybody had their say, and the ruling was made. Time to move forward.

  5. Peter Henne, you obviously made a mistake when you said “Time to move forward”, you actually realize that this project will be “Time to move backwards”, very backwards. Peter Henne, you are a shill for the Newhall Land company.

  6. I moved from Valencia to Los Angeles, Ca to fight bad city council policies that impact residents and businesses.

    David Barron
    Formerly of Vista Ridge
    LA code enforcement official

  7. As a person in my 30’s just starting a family, I am glad that there will be new homes built in Newhall Ranch. Hopefully my wife and I can stop renting and buy something. I’m shocked the court ruled the way it did being that this is CA and environmentalism typically trumps development. I’m all for this development, it will bring jobs and build a tax base (which we sorely need in CA since our lawmakers never met a project they didn’t like to throw money at).

    • Mike: you are now 33. Do you have a home yet? What makes you think you can afford a NEW home in Newhall Ranch when you can’t afford one that is already built? I bet you drive over the hill for your job. Think of the added traffic, smog, crime in the area. You are too young to understand. Just take a look around this Valley. Better yet, take a drive and look at the congestion. The valley is over built now. It does not need 20000 more homes.

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