Canyon Hills housing development

[Sharon W]

This 221 home development was approved in 2005 over the objections of many community members. It's been idle for many years but is reactivated now. The land is currently undeveloped and there are no utilities on the property yet. It is near the former Verdugo Hills Golf Course property and is similarly suitable for a wildlife corridor, open space recreation and possible storm water retention facilities. While more housing is needed this is the wrong place to build it.

The Crescenta Highlands Neighborhood Association and Crescenta Valley Community Association meet tonight via zoom. The CHNA meeting should be only half an hour. Canyon Hills is on the CVCA agenda. Details below

Please join us via Zoom on Thursday

Topic: CHNA & CVCA

Time: January 26, 2022, 6:30 PM

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Meeting ID: 916 4489 5134

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Thank you for participating in the Crescenta Valley Community Association. We are “One Valley, One Voice” Contact the CVCA at [e-mail] with any questions you may have.

Also, STNC has a meeting on it tomorrow morning at 11 am, www.stnc.org/readpost.php?news_id=966

[anni]

Can't remember the last time that the Los Angeles Times covered anything in our part of the county. Its five or six page California section is dominated by stories from sister newspaper San Diego Union-Tribune and crime reports initiated by local TV news. So it's noteworthy that the Times ran most of this article about the Canyon Hills development on the front and back pages of the main section Thursday:

www.latimes.com/california/story/2023-04-20/proposed-verdugo-mountains-development-sparks-worry

[Sharon W]

There's been TV coverage too, ktla.com/news/local-news/proposed-verdugo-mountains-luxury-housing-development-worries-residents/

[Brian]

The rainbow colored Save Our Local Mountains signs on telephone poles for the past few weeks show that folks in the heights of the City of Los Angeles don't give up easily.  Now our state legislators are getting involved.  Our previous Senator Anthony Portantino sent out an e-mail blast Thursday with a link to a letter from him and our redrawn district's Senator Caroline Menjivar requesting a Subsequent Environmental Impact Report for the Canyon Hills project:

sd25.senate.ca.gov/sites/sd25.senate.ca.gov/files/e_alert/pdf/canyon_hills_subsequent_eir_request.pdf?utm_campaign=anthony-jportantino-canyon-hills&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&utm_content=link#0

Addressed to the city's planning director, the letter ends with a cc to Councilmember Monica Rodriguez. Sunland-Tujunga residents have a long history of successful land use opposition -- from preventing a gravel pit in the Big Tujunga Wash in the 1950's through the skewering of Home Depot's zoning application early this century, followed by the successful stalling of a different housing development at the Verdugo Hills Golf Course 15 years ago.  All that happened -- along with countless other smaller scale zoning victories in the decades in between -- long before Monica was elected to represent us in her first term, but as our representative she should consider our community while helping to save the Verdugo Hills for everybody, including its newest residents, bears and mountain lions.

[Brian]

I should have posted the link to the website of No Canyon Hills, "a community coalition and non-profit project" formed last February after the grading permit application was filed, months ago.  Click around -- every page is excellent.  Here's the homepage:

nocanyonhills.org/