Local News in Brief : Faire Site Project OKd
Despite impassioned pleas from homeowners, environmentalists and fair-goers, the Los Angeles County Regional Planning Commission Thursday narrowly approved a developer’s request to build a gated community on the longtime site of the Renaissance Pleasure Faire.
By a 3-2 decision, the commission recommended that the county Board of Supervisors grant an area-plan amendment, zone change and permits to allow developer Brian Heller to build 160 luxury homes on the 320-acre site in Agoura.
The land’s owner, Art Whizin, has rented the site to the Faire’s sponsors each spring for the last 23 years and has agreed to do so this year for the final time. Rainy weather forced postponement of the fair, which was scheduled to open April 23. It has been rescheduled to start April 30 and run each weekend for six weeks.
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