[KHTS] – The California Supreme Court heard oral arguments Wednesday on the California Fish and Wildlife Department River permits for Newhall Land’s Newhall Ranch project. Newhall Ranch is a 19-square-mile development project being pursued by Newhall Land that would add approximately 21,000 homes...

Arguments about California Fish and Wildlife permits for the 21,000-home Newhall Ranch project are scheduled to be heard by the California Supreme Court on Wednesday. Newhall Ranch has been a target of Santa Clarita Organization for Planning and the Environment, or SCOPE, for nearly two decades. The...

Editor’s note: Founded in 1883 by the heirs of Henry Mayo Newhall, The Newhall Land and Farming Co. became a publicly traded company in 1968. In 2004, all of its stock was purchased 50-50 by Lennar and an affiliate (LNR), and the company was reorganized as LandSource Communities Development...

[Newhall Land] – Newhall Land announced Tuesday that the U.S. Federal District Court granted the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers’ and Newhall Land’s summary judgment motions affirming the Corps’ eight-year permitting effort. In the process, the federal court also denied the plaintiff environmental...

Vicinity map (Click to enlarge) Construction is a few years away, but the privately owned “open space” between Valencia-Westridge and Six Flags Magic Mountain will be giving way to 1,574 homes and 730,000 square feet of commercial buildings developed by The Newhall Land and Farming Co. The draft...

Santa Clarita Valley residents will have a chance to weigh in on the “north entrance” to the eventual 20,000-home Newhall Ranch development at a public meeting March 24. Entrada North – “entrada” meaning entrance – is envisioned as a new Town Center with shopping, dining and entertainment...

[KHTS] – The California Supreme Court has agreed to review a lower-court ruling that cleared the way for The Newhall Land and Farming Co. to start building its eventual 20,000-home subdivision west of Interstate 5. The ruling unanimously reversed Judge Ann Jones’ 2012 judgment in favor of the...

In 1966 or so, sitting in the kitchen of the Pico Cottage in Mentryville, I heard the first mention of climate change. The conversation started with a Standard Oil geologist stating that soon, possibly within our lifetimes, a new ice age would start. I guess he missed that prediction just a little bit. Climate...

Not in my backyard. NIMBY. Where are we going to get the water? What about traffic? It could take us hours to get to the valley. Will the electrical power be available? And schools – what about the schools? Just what is a “planned community”? Why here and now? Is this talk about the Newhall...

[Newhall Land] – The Newhall Land and Farming Co. announced Tuesday that the Los Angeles Superior Court has upheld the extensive environmental review process that was conducted for the company’s Mission Village development, a village within Newhall Ranch. In upholding the environmental review,...