Panel OKs Posh Project Near Hidden Hills
A luxury home development that will preserve scenic hillsides along the Ventura Freeway’s Calabasas Grade was approved Wednesday by the Los Angeles County Regional Planning Commission.
Planners voted 5 to 0 to approve 397 single-family homes on an 823-acre parcel north of the freeway. The rolling hillside area is bounded by the city of Hidden Hills on the east, the Malibu Canyon Park residential area on the west and the Ventura-Los Angeles county line on the north.
The new homes will be separated from the freeway by a hilly, quarter-mile-wide buffer space, according to developer John Hurford of Morrison Entities. The houses will resemble those built by Hurford’s company at the 1,200-home Morrison Ranch development in Agoura Hills, he said. That subdivision includes five-bedroom homes costing $450,000.
The Morrison application was supported by Calabasas-area homeowners. The residents had bitterly opposed the last project proposed for the property, a 755-house development sought by the Canada-based Daon Corp in 1982. It called for construction of condominiums close to the freeway.
Wednesday’s planning commission action included approval of the removal of 219 oaks on the site.
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