The city of Santa Clarita’s Community Preservation Division sent a notice of violation Monday to the owners of the Canyon View Mobile Home Estates property in Canyon Country, ordering the removal of multiple solar panels installed on the hillside just north of the park.
The owners, Kerry and Mark Seidenglanz, installed the panels on the hillsides within and outside of the mobile home park without obtaining required permits and without complying with conditions of approval associated with the conditional use permit for the park.
Those conditions of approval require that 50 percent of the property be maintained as open space. The Notice of Violation directs the property owner to remove the solar panels.
All mobile home parks are generally under the jurisdiction of the California Department of Housing and Community Development. City staff has been working with HCD and the county of Los Angeles to obtain and review file materials concerning the solar project as well as the conditional use permit, which was originally issued by the county.
The review indicates that Canyon View Estates should have sought additional entitlements from the city, and is in violation of the conditional use permit conditions of approval.
While the city supports efforts to move to renewable energy, it takes seriously its responsibility to enforce conditions of approval designed to protect the quality of life in Santa Clarita, balancing the need for development with the preservation of open space.
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266 Comments
Rick Rowsey
I’m assuming this won’t come down anytime soon !
Deanna Maldonado ??????
Rikki Salcido
Rick Drew
Good
Finally!!
Cole Beach
happen
Is this the Shelby Fischer from Burbank?Hi
Subject
Regarding Solar, I wish Lancaster had the same views on solar.And, who would want to attract the sun to the desert, especially during a drought, unless you are trying to burn up the planet.Who even knows the power of the sun? out a piece of glass on a little brush, it will cause a fire?? Hello’
Good they look horrible
Saw that coming! Lol
Good and maybe get the contractor a level next time.
They are ugly. And produce more heat in the air. And the reflection of the sun are blinding . Especially in the afternoon.
Todd Kaufman
I’m all for solar energy but this is an eyesore.
You have no idea!! Horrible :(
I am confused they belong to a mobile park but are no were near them? Obviously I don’t know how they work, but glad they are moving them.
It’s canyon view estates. They are more like pre fab homes and they are right up there by the solar panels.
Finally!!!!!
They are ugly, residents can’t sell, property value lowered a a lot, the heat is very dangerous, I can go on and on!!
That was a nice mountain
Return it to its original state !!
They are right next to them. I’ve been there and seen it. Those are mobile home in the picture
not mobile homes hun.. there manufactured real wood homes like a traditional built one<<< just made in sections for installing! i live here and love my home,,, but not the panels in my back yard!
Brenda Lindsey ya!! i can spit on mine ,,right inback of mine!!lol
Good and about time.
They are hideous!
took long enough…the panels are an eye-sore.
It’s about time! I know many residents have been upset and complaining for quite a while.
Nikki Franchini
It’s about time that’s a eye sore!
Jimmy Starkey
Ooooo
Uh oh what does this mean for you guys??
Nothing for us. Not our solar panels. We just seem to pay for them every month.
hopefully they stop charging you
Amanda Brianne Harper ?
Juli Weger Coennen
I saw this when driving by and was wondering wth ?
I was wondering when something might finally happen! They sure are ugly.?
Ty Reaber…. here is your answer. lol
Good they are ugly. Why are they covering the beautiful hills? As it is there is so much building going on, we are losing our valley.
It’s about time!!! Place them where you can’t see them.
Donovan Slinkard
Brandi Sheffield
They are ugly. It’s about time!
Maggie Mae Erickson ☺️
I know! It is awesome!! ?
we were just driving by the other day and Aaron and I were saying how did Santa Clarita ever approve THAT?!
They didn’t, that’s the thing. It took a while, but I am so happy the City did it’s due diligence and did not give up on it.
Rocio Del Pilar Hammer Kevin Hammer
That hillside is an OCD nightmare. They should be cited!?✌
Yessir.
I don’t have OCD but looking at that now I do…lol
I agree they didn’t even put them up straight looks like they were drunk!!
Chada Moody ?
Hilariously true!!! ????
No joke! I refuse to look that way!Lol
Finally!!!
Francine Videgain
Gosh finally, that looks so ugly
WOO HOO WAY TO GO SCV!!!!
California is funny. They can lecture the world about the environment, and how important solar and wind is, but the second YOUR VIEW is affected, you demand they get taken down ???. Bunch of ?
They are on a hillside. There is no ‘view,’ and they look AWFUL. No one is saying take them down. Most are saying FIX THEM. They look like some goofball threw them on a hill and left them.
It looks like some developmentally challenged kid lost his Legos.
Melissa Ann Morgan Humphreys actually, they are asking them to be removed. It isn’t that they aren’t straight, it’s that they reflect the sun right into the homes nearby. They should have never been placed there.
Carol Right. I understand they didn’t have the correct permits when they replaced. I just think they would have to be a better way to collect the sign on a hillside than bizarrely placed and spaced solar panels. Why are the ones at the bottom straight and the ones on top look like someone just gave up? Never mind it’s rhetorical question you don’t have to answer it.
Non of these comments can erase the fact that California is NUTS!
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Omg lol
My question was there a city permit pulled to put them up in the first place?
I don’t believe so
Nope he found a loop hole went straight to the state !!
Read the article!!
I thought the same thing when I read this.
Oh thank God! Everytime I pass, my OCD is off the charts ?
They cause many to become OCD, just a mish mash!
Looks like S… but it’s Canyon Country
And??? There are plenty of homes in sand canyon (which is part of Canyon Country) that are worth more than any house in Saugus or Stevenson Ranch. So why the stupid comment. It’s still part of Santa Clarita
If they were put up straight, I don’t think anyone would have complained. It’s horrible to look at.
Hire professionals next time.
Except the issues that they cause like turning the homes into a BBQ. So there’s that.
Carol Clark – I did hear that the panels cause heat.
Carol Clark not a good thing.
Agreed. It’s funny I just recently noticed how bad they look. When did they go up?
Good plus being OCD those ones that are crooked have ALWAYS bothered me when driving down Soledad ?.
Lisa LaCoe Cochran
So that’s worse to look at than more houses?? ?♀️
Megan Flynn
What took so long?!
Fiona Villasenor look!!
Well it’s about time! Ridiculous eye sore. Someone got kickbacks to turn a blind eye to this. Hurts the value of any homes that are near this vulgar mess. ?
That’s fantastic!! Such an eyesore!
I’m confused because several months back the owners were complaining about them as well.
About damn time.
I would also, as a Canyon Country resident, that those panels were a real eyesore. Literally, I was driving down a street in The Shangrala Housing track and was nearly blinded by the sun’s reflection off of those panels. I’m proud that our city has been diligent about this matter.
Took this long!
So happy to read this. Such an eyesore!
Hideous and illegal.
This is absolutely ridiculous. This has been going on for at least a year and your telling us they just NOW realized they didn’t pull permits? What the heck are the city employees doing out there? There more worried about a homeowner putting up a patio cover than seeing this obvious eyesore. Please…smacks of someone wasn’t paid enough in the planning and permit dept to look the other way and now they’re getting back at the owner…
I seriously don’t know how permits were overlooked…my solar panels couldn’t even go up until they were received.
You know if you read the article you would have seen that it was the county that originally issued the permit, not the city and the mobile home park falls under the California Department of Housing. So city staff has had to rely on those organizations in order to build a case strong enough to issue the citation. Which is why it took so long.
Read the article before you make a bunch of complaints about The City!! They are having to work with the County who issued the permits!
Shame on you Santa Clarita!!! Preserving the aesthetics of the hillside TRUMPS preserving the planet?
Good!! Those panels look like crap! There not even straight! Stupid!
This was already reported about a year ago and they even interviewed some of the homeowners who weren’t even told they were going to put them up.
Finally !!!!!!
Huge eye sore!
It’s about time!
Hugo A. Perez is this those panels we would see of Soledad
Lol i just read that story before I saw this.
Good because they are a real eye sore!
Stephen Bennett Breann Hames
Thanks SCV better late than never ???
Good. It looks terrible
Yap so ugly
I cringe every time is see them. Put them on the damn roof. Just like everyone else that has them around here.
Did Lily Of The Valley Mobile Home Park get a permit for theirs ? Hmmmm
Eyesore – departing
That’s a sloppy job
I heard that they don’t benefit the residents at all and they they sell it to Az. Not sure how true that is tho.
It is very true. The homeowners only benefit is supposedly we will not lose power in an outage. There is no other financial gain, just loss of our beautiful hillside view.
They look God awful but I understand wanting to use solar energy. Its just….abysmal looking. I try to avoid looking at it while driving on Soledad.
Major eyesore take it all down.
Mando Valles
Guillermo Medrano
Thank god This drives me crazy
Adriana Martinez
It’s about darned time! Hugh eyesore!
Finally!!!!!!!
The home owners in the area HATE THIS and are SO frustrated by the owners of Canyon View Estates. They do not benefit the home owners, which is a really self-serving way to go about solar energy. Shame on the owners of Canyon View Estates.
I’m glad the city was able to find a way to get involved. These were approved by the state, but SCV has working to get it solved.
J De Jesus ?? funny how we were talking about it this weekend ??
I remember seeing an article a while back regarding these. Apparently the owner of the solar panels is not affiliated with the residents, does not provide their home with energy, but does power streetlights. Seems to me like he should be cited, not the community. I can’t find the article I remember seeing, but there is a blurb about it here: https://scvnews.com/2017/06/27/scv-newsbreak-for-tuesday-june-27-2017/
The owner put the solar panels up but they are not for Canyon view which he owes as well Carey Sidenglass ( not sure I spelled his last name correctly). We use to live there he is a total tool .
Agreed. Not homeowners fault
Jose Garcia we just saw this…
Lol
It’s about time, what a mess it is.
Good!!!! They look awful!! An Eye sore to the community!!
Geri Brown are these the ones by you? If so maybe they will remove them.
Yes, they are the ones literally in our backyard and we are hoping that they have to be removed!!
Esmeralda Carrillo
? mickey mouse
Esmeralda Carrillo lol
Kristen Harper Amanda Brianne Harper
Can’t wait for these to come down!! Amanda Brianne Harper back yard won’t look like an eye sore!
Kristen Harper u better hurry up and move. Who do u think is going to pay for that citation? Hopefully rent doesn’t go up….
Ricky Santiago
I live there, we complained, glad someone finally can get this resolved. They are ugly, we don’t get any benefits, they should be fined and demand their removal
They should be required to plant some trees, considering they removed all of them.
Pauline Harte it looks horrible ?
Is this the one off of bouquet?
I though the city put this up to power the street lights.. my bad
Thank goodness! It’s so ugly and poorly done!
Thank you! Those things are an eyesore!
Rodney McElhone Mariah McElhone
I would like to know who is benefitting from this eyesore. I haven’t heard of anyone’s electric bill going down since those were put up.
Why did they have to remove all the vegetation ? I expect there was a long of erosion during the last rainstorms. Lots of questions about who approved them. I would hold the city of Santa Clarita officials accountable It will be interesting to see how the buck gets passed!
Tiffani Rigdon Jessica Nazarian
Michael Rodriguez crazy loo
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Tasnee Yarb
Good! That looks like crap!
Thanks goodness! These look absolutely awful. I’m so grateful our city is doing something about this. THANK YOU!!!!
Hillbillies that’s awesome
Tara Gilliam Brent Gilliam
Yeah I was laughing when I saw this too
Crooked ass panels!
I hate seeing those panels, I alway think who signed off on that?
Gregory Wood they look like something Justin would install! ???
“While the city supports efforts to move to renewable energy, it takes seriously its responsibility to enforce conditions of approval designed to protect the quality of life in Santa Clarita, balancing the need for development with the preservation of open space.”
What a joke! If they cared in the least about ascetics and quality of life they would not have destroyed our home town with all the development making SCV bigger than L.A. They city allowed developers to wipe out all our open space , the mountains are disappearing, the feel and closeness are gone.
You’re absolutely right, David M. Throw the County in there, too! If you think the 5 Fwy is bad now, just wait until the tens of thousands of homes that have approved come on line. And there seems to be no consideration as to where the additional water will be coming from. Drive thru the Aliento project (just uphill from the Lowes overlooking the 14 Fwy)…what could have been a nice neighborhood is marked by the conformity of the homes, their minimal setbacks and parking overflowing onto the streets. The City has had a chance to make SC a model community but has flubbed it over the past five years.
I know some of the home owners didn’t like the way it was installed. I thought I saw this in an article at one time
ya!! i live right behind some of those! ugly <plus not sure of danger involving electrical explosions due to lighting striking or radiation or flooding from ALL the rain we have!lol
Something is missing from this story… i cant put my finger on it… but something is fishy here.
So who is benefiting from the use of those panels?? Looks like the panels might not be the only thing that is crooked here, huh?
Please make them take down those ugly solar panels! I could not believe that the city would allow such an eyesore to be built in Santa Clarita’s open space. We need to beautify Canyon Country, please make them remove those unsightly solar panels. It has got to be bringing the value of our properties down.
I Agree with Terri. No more homes either. ?
I’m glad they are doing something about it. It really looks redneck and lowers the value of our town.
I’m so glad they will be taken down . They have been ruining my view.
Tommy W Hess hahahahahaha ugly things to look at for sure
Doug Rowsey
Good! That is an eyesore!
Although I am in favor of going green,
These solar panels looked HORRIBLE!!!!!
I’m so glad they will be removing them. Sooner better then later.
Good they are an eye sore.
Eyesore?
I believe The solar panels are on Indian reservation land. There’s nothing the city can do.
Greg Butler
They should look at what the junior high and high schools have done around here using solar panels as shade for car parking. That would be much more appropriate.
Moises Costello
It looks ridiculous and they should be taken down thats my opinion.
Wow really is a crap load of panels behind those houses on Northcliff Dr.
Charlene Brown Sarnecki
Geri Brown
Patricia Serrano
Dorothy Ditzel
They look like they were just thrown up there without any thought as to the aesthetics. As for approvals, the park owners are apparently boneheads and amateurs…there is no way I would put those up without getting permission from the City, no matter what other agencies are involved. There are numerous City issues involved here, beyond those that are mentioned in the article.
Thank good they are getting removed they make the city looks more ghetto than all ready is
They are an eye sore when driving by. If they were more symmetrically placed they would look better, instead of being placed all over the place.
Anita, John
About time looks awful!
Charlene Iannalfo Reagan.
I know :)
Lmao Travis Dodd
So many of the comments here reflect the ignorance of this community about renewable energy. It reflects self-involved “me first” attitudes and a lack of looking toward what’s best for the entire community. The city the state, the country, and the world. The City of Santa Clarita does not support this effort and is more worried about complaints from nimbys. I cannot wait for the Blue Wave to consume the local City Council as well and flush it all out of the way. Get off the new road if you can’t lend a hand because the times they are a- changing.
What’s important is holding developers to their agreements. What’s important is not allowing developers to violate our hillside and open space ordinances. Maybe you hate nature, but you don’t speak for the majority. The majority of Santa Clarita voters opted to preserve open space.
Yea. What an eye sore
It is so damn ugly!
Kim Bingaman
Thank god SCV is doing something about something. Let’s distract people from the thousands of housing units being built, the water shortage, and the traffic nightmare that SCV has become! Yay Awesometown!
Ashley Serle
Could they be any more ghetto?
Such an eyesore!
They are ugly and look so disoriented. Very sloppy workmanship
They are horrible. Reject
We, residents and homeowners had a meeting with the city representatives when these things were going up. We brought up the fact there was no environmental study, no concern for the homeowners, the owners went to the state and county, not the city for their ‘permits”, and basically we were told it’s their land they can do anything they want with it. I am so glad that the city didn’t give up.
That’s hilarious.
Always saw that and cringed. About time. But that ain’t nothing compared to all the new housing and stuff that’s happening and GOING to happen.
It’s only going to get worst. So glad I’m getting out of dodge
These are definitely a major eyesore!
even a blind person could have done a better job. Complete eyesore to the whole community.
Unfortunately we were told that they would not be removed, the owners had the correct permits and the city of Santa Clarita has no power over mobile home parks. That’s what we were told at the beginning of this issue, so why now is this coming out if the city has nothing to say about them. It will be interesting to see the “power” struggle between the owners and the city
Unfortunately you were given bad information. You are pretty much correct about “power over mobile home parks,” but the solar panels are not in a mobile home park.
This is not going to happen. They got the permitting from the state and the city told us last year when we tried to stop it, the city had no power to do anything. We were just told by our property management that the panels would not be coming down. Sorry
Mark Miller
I’m confused though, if the city wasn’t the one who put them up then who do this???? And if It was the city who is citing them selfs, then wth? Lol confused. And no, i didnt read article ???
Tess Brenneise Sorrentino then you dont get to ask questions?♀️? it was the owners of canyon view estates that installed them and apparently didnt get city permits before!!!!
Tina Miller Ok No????? That’s crazy sauce for sure!!!! WOW!!
Good. Ugly as sin.
Who was the brilliant idiot that decided to put them up in the first place??? Hey moron, next time cross your T’s and dot your I’s before pretending to be emperor Siedenglantz and just shove these eyesores down our throats becuase you tought you could….apparently your not all that with out the right permits. Maybe we can get some of our lost property values back to our houses.
Judith
I’ll believe it when I see it.
I believe in green power but they do seem o be quite a bit of an eyesore, I wonder if they are up for sale? I know a couple of spaces that hey would not be so obnoxious and still create some power useful for the community without offending property owners.
How ugly
That entire valley has been destroyed, so glad I no longer live there………..
Good those darn things are so ugly and ruin the whole area completely a eye sore
Deb and I saw this the other day coming home from Costco. We couldn’t believe how disgustingly ugly they look on the side of the mountain. And we don’t even recall seeing them before. They’re so ugly you would think we would’ve seen them already.
They are an eye sore. They at least could have made the all in line.
Bunny Miklovich
I hope they do take them down. I’m all for solar panels but not where they are visible to the entire Canyon Country area! They are so ugly and uneven.
They look horrible, like they were placed and then slid down the hill
About damn time!
It does kind of look like they slid down the hill!!! I would think the powers that be would love solar panels.
Supposedly the residents do not benefit from those solar panels either. I could be misinformed but from my understanding they are just reselling the energy and not providing it to the residents in that community. Definitely an eye sore considering they are not in a straight line. Pretty greedy of the land owner if this is true.
Supposedly the residents do not benefit from those solar panels either. I could be misinformed but from my understanding they are just reselling the energy and not providing it to the residents in that community. Definitely an eye sore considering they are not in a straight line. Pretty greedy of the land owner if this is true.
Time to move soon?!
?Looks terrible!
Mark Kessler
Guy Shirley
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Petra Senn
Brenda is this where Marcella use to live?
Are these houses or mobile homes?
No Beth, I lived at Canyon View Estates off Soledad.
Oh just wondering!!
That’s where my mom lives. Its not a mobile home park though. The owners are greedy people
If Jerry Brown can build his “crazy train”, these people can have their ugly panels! Besides, beauty is in the eye of the beholder…???
Looks like Giant Legos ?
Should have hired the architects that did Luxor. Hell, they could have even added the Luxor light as well ?
Vegas baby!!!
Coulda called it suxor
I’m so happy something is being done about this. They’re ugly and havevtp be affecting the wildlife. I live on top of the hill and have to look at them every day. I wish there was something we could do to have them completely removed or placed on top of the housing in his Park.
Luis Gonzalez that you up there haha
SCVNews.com. In our meeting last year with the City go Santa Clarita representative, he told us that Canyon View Estates is considered a mobile home park, that is why they (the city) was not involved in the permitting of the solar panels. Also our manager told one of the owners yesterday that the panels were staying and the owners were not getting fined as the permits they got from the state were approved. Again, knowing the owners, it will be interesting to see the final outcome. Thank you for reporting on this ongoing issue!
I drive by these everyday on the freeway and can barely see them.
Diana and Christian lol… remember I asked WTF when we were going to Jessica’s graduation? Now I know haha
As a resident I can say we get no benefit of these monstrosity… swear they must have been drunk when installing them.. Im Betting now we as residents will feel the fines coming out of our pockets! Not the owners!
Enrique Henry Serrato
Thank god!
Mark Fortier