OXNARD : Council to Take Up Village West Project
The Oxnard City Council tonight will consider reversing a decision by the city’s Planning Commission and rejecting a report on the environmental effects of Village West, a 700-unit development proposed for Ormond Beach.
City staff members are recommending that the council uphold the decision, which would clear the way for the project at the southeast corner of Hueneme and Perkins roads. Planners say the environmental report complies with state laws by accurately identifying the impacts of the development.
But the Oxnard Union High School District and the Sierra Club have appealed the Planning Commission action, charging that the report does not properly address the effects of the development on local schools and nearby wetlands, respectively.
The development is being proposed by the Orange County-based Baldwin Co., which is also pushing to build 5,000 homes amid the wetlands of Ormond Beach.
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