CALABASAS : Supervisors OK Housing Project in Ecological Area
Capping eight years of debate, Los Angeles County supervisors have approved a housing project near Calabasas at a fraction of its original size, and given up on a plan to extend an unpopular four-lane highway through the property.
The board granted the developer of the Malibu Terrace project permission to build a 4.5-acre commercial project and 110 houses in the sensitive ecological area along Las Virgenes Road north of the Ventura Freeway--less than a tenth of the 1,816 houses proposed in 1986. The supervisors also designated 400 acres of the 500-acre property as open space.
The board dropped plans to extend Thousand Oaks Boulevard about a mile east through the property over the objections of the county’s road department, which recommended building the road as the first step toward creating an alternative to the Ventura Freeway.
In lieu of the road, the supervisors ordered Las Virgenes Properties to pay the county $600,000 for regional transportation improvements, such as bridge widening and traffic signal installation.
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