SCOPE has opposed the 21,000 unit Newhall Ranch project in the Santa Clarita Valley for over two decades. We have always felt that auto oriented urban sprawl is not the answer to our housing needs and will only aggravate climate change and the need for more fossil fuel extraction. Its Read more…
As most people probably already know, Newhall Ranch is a massive project located along Los Angeles County’s last free flowing river, the Santa Clara. It will pave over 1500 acres of prime farmland, fill the flood plain with 7 million cubic yards of dirt, levy a portion of the river Read more…
Our community’s fight against the Newhall Ranch development may qualify as historic. It is certainly epic. Along the way, we’ve been called NIMBYs and sometimes worse. And yet we’ve been vindicated time and again by the courts, including the California Supreme Court, which ruled in 2015 that the developer failed Read more…
Houses should not be built over a closed oil field (Mission Village). There is too great a chance that airborne VOCs will leak up into the homes. The exclusion of a traffic chapter make the supplemental document inadequate because traffic has greatly increased since the 2007 review was released and Read more…
Sustainable Pumping of the Santa Clara River Alluvial Aquifer? – Hardly! To see SCOPE’s full comments on the Santa Clarita Valley Urban Water Management Plan click here.UWMP SCOPE Sustainable use of the alluvial aquifer was estimated to be 32,000 AF for the Upper Basin for many years.[1] Prior to the 1986 Read more…