Tell L.A. County Board of Supervisors to hold off on EIRs for Santa Clarita development plans

Stop climate change by opposing urban sprawl and save L.A. County's last free-flowing river, the Santa Clara River.

 

 

Background: Newhall Land/Lennar was allowed by Richard Bruckner, the executive officer of L.A. County Planning, to avoid the Planning Commission and subsequent public hearings. Normally the Planning Commission reviews the draft and holds a hearing on the final EIR. Instead, the EIR for planned developments of Mission and Landmark Villages EIR shortcutted the process and went directly to the supervisors, who will hear the issue Tuesday, July 18. This is unprecedented. 

 

Make clear in your phone calls and/or emails:

 

1.These EIRs should go to the Planning Commission first. 

 

2. Environmental groups have challenged the scope of the EIRs in court. The Board of Supervisors hearing should be delayed until those cases are decided

 

3. The public was not given the usual 30-day public hearing notice. Instead, notices arrived barely two weeks beforehand. The hearing should be rescheduled with proper notice after going to the Planning Commission first.

 

Send your comments to publichearing@bos.lacounty.gov and put "Landmark Village" in the subject line. Then write the same thing again and put "Mission Village" in the subject line (there are two different hearings about two different tracts). 

 

Contact information for the five L.A. County Supervisors:

 

Kathryn Barger (213) 974-5555 fifthdistrict@bos.lacounty.gov

Janice Hahn (213) 974-4444 FourthDistrict@bos.lacounty.gov

Sheila Kuehl  (213) 974-3333 Sheila@bos.lacounty.gov

Mark Ridley-Thomas (213) 974-2222  Mark.Ridley-Thomas@bos.lacounty.gov 
  

Hilda L. Solis (213) 974-4111  firstdistrict@bos.lacounty.gov