SAN FERNANDO VALLEY : County Ordered to Halt Expansion of Landfill
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A Superior Court judge Friday ordered Los Angeles County to suspend development of the Sunshine Canyon dump above Granada Hills, saying the project’s environmental impact report is faulty.
The dump in the Santa Susana Mountains, long the target of complaints by neighbors, is the subject of an involved court battle pitting the landfill’s owner--Browning-Ferris Industries--and the county on one side, against the city of Los Angeles, which sued to block the county’s plan to expand it by 200 acres.
The 71-page ruling by Judge Ronald Sohigian requires Browning-Ferris to prepare a corrected environmental impact report for the proposed landfill development and present the report to the County Board of Supervisors.
The supervisors also must vote again to approve the EIR before the project can proceed. Sohigian’s ruling overturned the board’s vote in February, 1991, certifying the EIR.
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