Activists Seek to Put Growth Control on Ballot
Seeking to shield the Santa Clara Valley from large-scale development, activists in Santa Paula and Fillmore announced Monday that they will push to place growth-control measures on the November ballot.
The campaigns by SOAR (Save Open Space and Agricultural Resources) were spurred in part by two actions that could add tens of thousand of homes to the valley and its environs.
In Santa Paula, a land-use commission gave the city permission to proceed with plans to more than triple its size. And in Fillmore, city leaders settled a lawsuit against Newhall Land & Farming over its bid to build a sprawling community just across the Los Angeles County line.
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