Local News in Brief : Moorpark Is Urged to Scrap Growth Plan

The Moorpark Planning Commission unanimously recommended Tuesday that a proposed growth-control ordinance, on hold since before the November City Council elections, be “totally scrapped.”

“Let’s put this to rest and start all over rather than discuss this sentence by sentence,” said Commissioner William LaPerch, who moved to recommend to the City Council that the proposal be killed.

The ordinance contained no numerical building limits but would have screened growth by considering a development’s impact on schools, roads and other public services, defining what type of architecture and businesses the city desires and determining whether development would exceed population growth limits placed on the city by Ventura County’s air-quality plan.

The commission also recommended that new development goals and objectives be determined by the commission in conjunction with the upcoming review of the city’s General Plan.

It is expected that the council will go along with the Planning Commission’s recommendation because three new councilmen elected in November have already stated their opposition to the concept of growth control.