2300-Home West Creek Project to Move Ahead

Newhall Land spokeswoman Marlee Lauffer said that they can now move forward on building West Creek now that the legal battles are hopefully resolved.

The community is to include a mix of single-family homes, condos and apartments, as well as a 17-acre park, an elementary school, commercial space, a fire station and about 50 percent of the entire site will be left as open space.

With the exception of a few minor permits, Lauffer said that Newhall Land will likely move ahead with physical site work "within the next couple of months".

The Santa Clarita Organization for Planning the Environment has challenged this development, claiming that Newhall Land did not adequately research water supplies in its EIR. SCOPE president Lynne Plambeck said that the fight is far from over, and they will consider appealing the ruling. In addition to the project’s close location to the Santa Clara River, she said, "we really have to start thinking about all this expansion that’s being done (with) water from Northern California".

Seems to me that Newhall Land has already started physical site work, or is that just an illusion?