AHMANSON RANCH : Las Virgenes Road Plan Denial Appealed
Ahmanson Ranch developers are asking the Calabasas City Council to throw out a Planning Commission decision and allow the firm to extend Las Virgenes Road to the Ventura County line.
The City Council is scheduled to vote on Ahmanson Land Co.’s request Oct. 5 , following a public hearing at City Hall at 7:30 p.m.
The city’s Planning Commission ruled Sept. 8 that the firm’s application was incomplete, and denied the request to extend the road about 15 feet.
Ahmanson Land Co. wants to build 3,050 homes, two golf courses and 400,000 square feet of commercial space in a hilly area southeast of Simi Valley near the Los Angeles County border. Las Virgenes Road would be part of a major road system to the development.
All the hearings to date have centered on technical issues, not whether the development would be good for Calabasas, said Steve Quintanilla, the city’s deputy city attorney.
“The Planning Commission hearing and City Council hearing are not looking at the merits of the projects,” he said. “We are just looking at whether the application is complete. Once the application is deemed complete, it will go through the regular review process.”
City Councilman Bob Hill said this week that the city has “a fairly strict policy on how we review things.”
“I can only speak for me, but if the facts are found to be accurate, according to the policies that we review applications on, it might well be that the Planning Commission’s vote will stand,” Hill said.
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