County Panel OKs Plan to Sharply Reduce Growth
Los Angeles County planning commissioners, brushing aside objections from developers, Monday approved a sweeping plan to sharply reduce the expected growth of the Santa Clarita Valley for the next 20 years.
The new general plan, approved on a 4-1 vote by the Regional Planning Commission, would allow developers to build less than a third of the 38,000 housing units they have proposed. The plan would uphold a county policy to limit the Santa Clarita Valley’s population, now about 150,000, to a maximum of 270,000 by 2010.
The plan must still be approved by the Board of Supervisors.
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