Local property owners who nixed an earlier measure might soon have a say again about paying an annual fee so the city can buy raw land to create a green woodland around the valley writes Judy O’Rourke for the Daily News.
On Tuesday, the Santa Clarita City Council approved a plan to draft a measure to form a special assessment district with the goal of saving some open space from development. “This is a very simple district – very straightforward,” said Councilwoman Laurene Weste, who has long championed the concept.
The wording of the measure would be finalized in late April after an engineer’s report is released, but the guiding principles are a $25-a-year assessment for the owners of single-family homes, no more than a $1-a-year adjustment, a term of 30 years and a mandate to buy and conserve undeveloped land. Read it here: http://www.dailynews.com/santaclarita/ci_5543971