Castaic residents speak up at Santa Clarita City Council meeting in support of annexation.

The Castaic area was well represented at last night’s Santa Clarita City Council meeting, with annexation of portions of Castaic into the City of Santa Clarita part of the evening’s agenda.

Most of the residents who spoke up at the meeting had a common theme: They want local government representation and local meetings instead of having to travel downtown to voice their concerns, and they want that government entity to actually care about what happens in their area. One speaker eloquently stated that they didn’t want to be "stranded in the land of County emptiness".

The only dissenting commentary was by Steve Teeman of the Castaic Area Town Council. He says that since he and his fellow council members were "duly elected", that they should have more of a say in what happens in the Castaic area in regards to annexation. He also says that the Castaic Annexation Support Team (CAST) is "not the voice of Castaic". Seems a little silly, doesn’t it, since CAST collected signatures in favor of annexation from about 72% of the residents in the Castaic areas of Hasley Hills, Live Oak, North Bluff and the Valencia Commerce Center. It would appear that by virtue of these signatures in favor of annexation, the residents have voted against their Town Council’s current stand on the matter.

The $35,000 allocation to begin the required annexation and planning services was unanimously approved by the Santa Clarita City Council after a short discussion period. Frank Ferry made sure to point out that the $25,000 study that had already been approved regarding West Side annexation will still move forward, and stated that there would be plenty of time to consider any findings from that study before the annexation process is complete, since the study should be completed within the next few months and the annexation process should take at least one year.

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